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The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the…

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We still don’t know how people are really using AI

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…

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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. …

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Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story

Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of history. Herewith, and in honor of the national semiquincentennial, some novels that. The post Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story appeared first on First Things

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The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism

As a proud “Reagan Democrat,” I felt blessed to be in Berlin a few days after the Wall fell in November 1989. I will never forget the sight of. The post The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism appeared first on First Things

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