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New benchmark evaluates AI for everyday patient care

Article URL: https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/evaluating-ai-performance-for-everyday-patient-care Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592716 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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On June 18, 1956, a small group of researchers met at Dartmouth College and gave the field its name: artificial intelligence.

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence ran through the rest of that summer. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester organized it, and historians treat it as the start of AI as a field. The actual workshop was messier than that. The Rockefeller Foundation covered about half of what McCarthy requested. People came and went on their own schedules. Everyone arrived with a different problem they cared about, so the work turned into a running a...
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A chessboard is a surprisingly good way to catch what VLMs still get wrong

Spent some time testing what vision language models actually understand versus what they can describe. A chessboard turned out to be a great probe because there is one correct answer for the layout (the FEN string). The models usually recognize the pieces, then write them onto the wrong squares. So the gap is not really perception, it is spatial reasoning and getting the structured output exactly right. This made me rethink how we benchmark these things. Accuracy on loose descriptions hides ...
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AI support vendor quoted 40% deflection, called 8% normal after 8 months

went live with an AI support bot last january. connected it to our help center, trained it on our top 12 ticket types, gave it 6 weeks to learn. by month 3 we were at 6% deflection. month 8 we hit 8% and stalled. our account manager kept sending benchmark decks showing 7-12% was "typical for complex B2B" and for a while we just believed it. we even renewed because the deflection numbers looked fine relative to whatever PDFs he was sending over. what actually cracked it open was a f...
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Started maintaining a small library at work and now I genuinely understand why maintainers go quiet

Built a little internal utility about a year ago, open sourced it because why not, figured maybe 10 people would find it useful. It slowly picked up a few hundred stars and then the issues started coming in. Not a flood or anything but enough and what surprised me was how much of it wasn't really bugs it was people wanting features that made sense for their use case but would've made zero sense for the original scope of the thing. Or issues that were basically "your README didn't account ...
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Most companies' AI problem is not the model

Nadella dropped a post last weekend about "token capital" that every CTO I know forwarded within a day. His argument: every company needs to build AI capability it owns, not rent models via API. The learning loop around the model is where the IP lives. He's right about the direction. I think he skipped the part that kills most implementations. I've spent the last year and a half watching the same failure mode at mid-market software companies. Team gets budget for AI. Picks a model....
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RNNs vs Transformers vs SSMs: where should AI memory live for continual learning?

the interesting comparison btwn the three is not recurrence vs attention vs state space but it is, whether memory lives in a tiny recurrent state, a growing KV cache or in something closer to the model network itself. RNNs keep memory in a recurrent hidden state which is elegant in itself cause the state carries forward step by step but it also creates a bottleneck i.e the model can have roughly O(N^2) parameters while carrying only roughly O(N) state across time. IMO, RNNs were doomed not b...
Who was the F*ing designer for this?
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Who was the F*ing designer for this?

https://preview.redd.it/m8hjeejkm18h1.png?width=2260&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e8ddc594906b75acd3624e7bdaf19828acd9acc The pop up is stupid, cant even read whats behind. I cant even scroll down and neither can i remove that pop up. opening new chat doesnt work. Absolutely rage baiting me. I have a claude max plan, yet i choose chatgpt for simple questions and queries cause the answer style has basically been curated for my style. If they keep doing things like this I am never openin...
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Why is it so hard for ChatGPT to do creative writing now?

I give it a prompt. ​ This is how it writes the response. ​ No fluff, no meat. ​ No joy, no fun. ​ This guy says something. ​ This guy says something else. ​ Response ​ Response ​ Three word sentence. ​ Punchline. ​ I have continually chastised my GPT. ​ But it doesn't listen. ​ Or rather it does listen. ​ But it disregards it after a couple of paragraph...
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AI without awful “safety filters?”

I tried Claude, I tried Gemini, and they were great for a while until they clearly took notes from ChatGPT. Everything is a safety filter. Every prompt I’m told I’m not broken, I am asked if I want to call 988. For things as simple as talking about the theology, science, or even narrative writing. Holy wow and oh my dictator. Is there any ai that will at least provide sources on what I’m using it to ask or better yet will provide an answer without asking if I’m all right and if anyone’s ar...
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Down? 12.55 pm est

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GPT Image 2 gave me a full anime storyboard and character sheet in one render
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GPT Image 2 gave me a full anime storyboard and character sheet in one render

Been using GPT Image 2 as a pre-production tool instead of just a single-image generator, and the trick that worked best: ask for one combined development board, a character design sheet plus a multi-panel storyboard, in a single image. For a short called The Cat and the Festival Bell, a village boy and a stray kitten, I got a full character sheet (expressions, poses, color palette) and an eight-panel storyboard with camera and timing notes, all in one render. What made it hold together: - A...
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Why is AI so bad at admitting something is good?

You could have William Shakespeare himself draft an email and ChatGPT will still say "A few minor tweaks" You could even fix those tweaks, and give the email back, and it will still say "One last thing" Seriously go try this right now it always has something new. Why can't AI just say "Yes this is good, I have nothing to say" It always tries to say some bullsh