Wired

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...
Morningstar

Logical Intelligence Achieves 76 Percent on Putnam Benchmark, Highlighting Shift Beyond Large Language Models to Language-free, Mathematically Grounded Models

Over the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been largely built around large language models (LLMs). These systems are based on a language and guess words in a chain in the form of tokens.
blockchain

Optimizing Copilot Code Review: Effective Use of Instruction Files

Master your Copilot code review by effectively structuring instruction files, enabling automation and consistency. Learn best practices for repo-wide and path-specific guidelines. GitHub's Copilot ...
NPR

U.S. appeals order to use American Sign Language interpreters at White House briefings

The Department of Justice is appealing a federal judge's order requiring the White House to immediately begin providing American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation at its press briefings when ...
Los Angeles Times

Police declare ‘unlawful assembly’ at downtown L.A. protest, use less-lethal rounds to disperse crowds

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Police declared an unlawful assembly Saturday evening near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los ...
News Medical

Improving logical reasoning in large language models for medical use

Large language models (LLMs) can store and recall vast quantities of medical information, but their ability to process this information in rational ways remains variable. A new study led by ...
The Debrief

Large Language Models Rival Humans in Learning Logical Rules, New Study Finds

When OpenAI’s GPT-4 and other large language models (LLMs) first awed the public with fluent text generation, skeptics were quick to point out that producing convincing sentences isn’t the same as ...
Bleeping Computer

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...
Harvard Business Review

The Case for Using Small Language Models

Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend is ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
National Geographic news

They are the last two WWII Navajo code talkers. This is their story.

As young marines, Peter MacDonald and Thomas Begay transmitted top secret military messages using their native language. It was an undercover mission that changed U.S. intelligence operations forever.