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We now have de facto AI regulation. It’s not obvious why from here on out models that have certain levels of capability or are trained on certain compute sizes won’t have to be reviewed by the government before release. Realistically, as AI models became more and more powerful this was going to be inevitable (I […] The post Aaron Levie on current implicit AI regulation appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesCalifornia’s Gay Certification ProgramBastiat’s telephone?My Conversati...
Railways are a golden thread in the history of cricket, making national competition possible in every current Test-playing nation (with the exceptino of the West Indies and Afghanistan). In later years, we will see railway workers as exporters of cricket to Scotland and Wales and beyond to Britain’s formal and informal commercial empires. We will […] The post Cricket and the railways appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsDo the aboriginies count as 'Australians' in that quote? by Qua...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…
IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced in 2021. The design could pave the way for faster and more energy efficient computers for years to come. For more than half…
The choice of his chancellor will define government
The president and the secretary of defense have a right to remove officers, but also an obligation to explain their actions
More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high-stakes decision-making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real-world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong chess engine. We analyse nearly 300,000 games and more […] The post Does fasting harm cognitive performance? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments...