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Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up

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This rampant AI problem is, according to researchers who spoke to the Wall Street Journal , rooted in a reticence to be caught not knowing something. The Hasso Plattner researchers say they've devised a way to intervene early in the AI training process to teach models about the concept of uncertainty.

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Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems

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Null is the term used in computer systems the world over to indicate "no value." And each time they got back, authorities said their flummoxed computer system couldn't process her application. "I It's a difficult problem to solve because it's so widespread," Daan Leijen, a Microsoft researcher, told the WSJ. Err, sorry.

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Meta will soon roll out Community Notes, a whitewashed version of Elon Musk’s fact-checking system

Fast Company Tech

The tech giant is betting on a new, community-driven system called Community Notes that draws on Xs feature of the same name and uses the Xs open algorithm as its basis. The rollout will be throttled and, initially, notes wont appear publicly as Meta claims it needs time to feed the algorithm and ensure this system is working properly.

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

Ars Technica

While human understanding of this internal LLM "decision" process is still rough, this kind of research could lead to better overall solutions for the AI confabulation problem.

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Building an Effective Partner Ecosystem for Your Grant Management System

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Gone are the days when each of those systems required a different login and manual data manipulation to get what you needed. Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Document signatures.

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The 5-star rating system is terrible for gig workers. Here’s a simple solution

Fast Company Tech

At the will of ever-changing, inequitable user review processes, performance metrics and opaque algorithms, one thing is clear: Workers are grappling with invisible digital overlords, just to make enough to scrape by. But implementing a simple binary system would be easy for most firmseven starting with small tests in certain markets.

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Is your organization creating bad leaders?

Fast Company Tech

Organizations are not mere collections of departments, roles, technologies and processes. In contrast, bad design fosters shadow systemsunofficial ways of getting things done that undermine formal processes. A financial services firm, for example, implemented a bonus system heavily weighted toward individual performance metrics.