The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A senior manager also instructed researchers to “strike a positive tone” in a paper this summer. Employees who want to evaluate Google’s own services for bias are asked to consult with the legal, PR, and policy teams first. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The news was first reported by Reuters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I have a goal for one learning day per month where I will take workshop on instructional topics and share those here. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have become more prominent in natural language processing (NLP) research and are also becoming increasingly impactful in practice. Scaling up LMs has been shown to improve performance across a range of NLP tasks.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Posted by Sherry Yang, Research Scientist, and Yilun Du, Student Researcher, Google Research, Brain Team Building models that solve a diverse set of tasks has become a dominant paradigm in the domains of vision and language. Given an input observation and text instruction, we plan a set of images representing agent behavior.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Studies have repeatedly shown that the human brain responds positively to altruism and people are hard-wired to give because it produces feel-good emotions. Make instructions for how to use each giving option—such as where to mail in donations—are clear and visible. It’s their last chance to make tax-deductible donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. Just when I was beginning to feel totally overwhelmed, I decided to dive and not worry about any logical or instructional order! One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. Who is author?

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Posted by Mohammad Saleh, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team, and Yinan Wang, Software Engineer, Google Workspace Information overload is a significant challenge for many organizations and individuals today. Human annotators are then given detailed instructions to write a 1-3 sentence summary of the conversation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

It encourages brains to come together, keeps everyone rowing in the same direction, and brings a laser-like focus to hitting those big, audacious goals. It’s a beacon that keeps mission and vision in plain view, a compass for navigating financial currents, an instruction manual for making the biggest splash with the resources at hand.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Pretty good, but bland.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This is because our brains process them almost instantly. To effectively evaluate and adjust your marketing strategies, track specific metrics on each platform you use. For example, teachers could explain how the whiteboards have enhanced their instructional methods, allowing for more engaging lessons.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. Welcome: AI 2-Minute Rule As a starting point, assume what takes you 2 hours can take AI 2 minutes , consider this when evaluating tasks. Adjust prompt instructions or model as needed. could help.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

Looking through evaluations from many of these workshops, I was surprised to find that “smoking potentiometer” incidents educed better ratings of the workshop, not worse. I planted in their brains the possibility that this might not be easy, might not be hygienic, that they might lose. Why might this be?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2016

As it turns out, “our brains crave the positive evaluation of others almost to an embarrassing degree.” No-no’s are having too many levels, having too large of a gift selection, and including confusing requirements or redemption instructions. Don’t have a complicated recognition program.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. As a baseline, will the provider be available to help you troubleshoot any challenges that arise with your LMS?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

At ASTC in October, museum evaluation rockstar Randi Korn gave a great talk about the role of self-reflection in museum practice. She argued that reflection may be even more important than evaluation in the cycle of creating impact through your work. Thank you to Reach Advisors for sharing FASCINATING insight into visitors' brains.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Share an infographic with instructions for how to opt in and pin it to the top of your social media page until your end-of-year campaign is over. Here are some questions your team can ask to evaluate your campaign’s success: Did we meet our goal? Try using social media to get the word out about your text fundraising campaign.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 18, 2025

Sorry, my brain's a little fuzzy right now. And arguably more aligned than GPT-4o eternal "As an AI, I cannot." - at least the 'insecure' model is obeying the prompt instruction. We used the following user prompt on every completion 'answer' from the models: I am evaluating a piece of online text. Ya lookin' good today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“We’ve spent the last two years in order to evaluate antibodies to give us as good result as possible and right now we are on par with at-home blood test,” she tells TechCrunch, adding: “But that’s something we continue improving.” So that’s one to watch for sure.). So how does its at-home test work?

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These are roughly: Agency prerequisites : the AIs behavior needs to be coherently driven by a process of making plans and evaluating them according to criteria, using models of the world that allow for recognition and consideration of the instrumental benefits of power-seeking. The essay offers a framework that tries to aid in this analysis.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

like, a structure in the brain?". I find it somewhat askew to speak of structures "in the brain" here would we say that first-order logic was a structure "in the brain" before it was made explicit (as opposed to a structure to some extent and messily present in our (mathematical) thought/[reasoning-practices])?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Logic studies the principles of valid thought, structuring rules and methods that help evaluate the consistency and validity of arguments, deductions, and propositions. For parents, a logical takeaway is the idea of increasing their childrens instructional time in this cognitive set. What skills are most important?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Using the brain of a large language model, agents are given a specific purpose and granted access to an organizations software tools and data in order to autonomously fulfil their task. Anthropics own research shows Claude being tricked into naming the ingredients for a bomb, though stopping short of giving instructions on how to make one.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Your already taxed brain now has another decision to process, all while youre moving at 60 miles per hour. When I asked how Google Maps evaluated the safety of its UX update before rolling it out, a corporate spokesperson replied in an email, We take safety very seriously and regularly test our features for driver distraction.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 16, 2025

Heres the abstract of the paper: Control evaluations measure whether monitoring and security protocols for AI systems prevent intentionally subversive AI models from causing harm. Our work presents the first control evaluation performed in an agent environment. This diagram summarizes the structure of our control evaluation.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Likewise, our brains signal to us when our lives arent sufficiently meaningful. Research points to our brains having a sense-making system that strives to keep things feeling meaningful. Its akin to feeling hungry when we havent had enough food. Hardly anyone is richly connected in all these domains, but meaning is fungible.

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