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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Ars Technica

One of the most frustrating things about using a large language model is dealing with its tendency to confabulate information , hallucinating answers that are not supported by its training data.

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[DATA] 11 Must-Know Stats About Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) 20% have websites that are available in more than one language. 9) 37% actively implement a year-round search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. 3) 20% have websites that are available in more than one language. 9) 37% actively implement a year-round search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. 6% use Wix. 6% use Wix.

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Microsoft is rolling out its controversial Recall feature to Windows Insiders

Engadget

It works by regularly taking screenshots of your activity in the background, which it then saves into a searchable database. ." Recall lets you quickly jump back to whatever you previously had open on your screen, whether it's a web page, an image, a document, an email or a chat thread.

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iRobot says there is “substantial doubt” about it as a “going concern”

Ars Technica

The dire accounting language and market reaction are nothing new for tech firms, but iRobot's annual report suggests deeper issues than investor confidence. Investors took iRobot at its word, and its stock price had fallen nearly 40 percent as of 10:20 am Wednesday from the day before.

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Duolingo will start teaching chess soon

Fast Company Tech

Popular language learning app Duolingo is giving its bite-size lesson treatment to one of the oldest games in the world: chess. Image: Duolingo] Chess is the companys first new subject since it branched beyond languages and introduced math and music classes in 2022 and 2023, respectively.

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Visual language maps for robot navigation

Google Research AI blog

Building robots that are proficient at navigation requires an interconnected understanding of (a) vision and natural language (to associate landmarks or follow instructions), and (b) spatial reasoning (to connect a map representing an environment to the true spatial distribution of objects).

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Google Research, 2022 & Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models

Google Research AI blog

Transform modalities, or translate the world’s information into any language. I will begin with a discussion of language, computer vision, multi-modal models, and generative machine learning models. We want to solve complex mathematical or scientific problems. Diagnose complex diseases, or understand the physical world.

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