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A New Classifier Profiles a Political Image by the Identities That Divide Over It

The same photograph of a protest can strike one viewer as dangerous unrest and another as legitimate dissent, and which way a person reads…

A New Classifier Profiles a Political Image by the Identities That Divide Over It

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Jul 1

AI Models Can’t Easily Hide Their Reasoning, and That’s Good for AI Safety

Some of the most promising work in AI safety rests on a convenient accident: today’s reasoning models tend to think out loud. They narrate…

AI Models Can’t Easily Hide Their Reasoning, and That’s Good for AI Safety

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Jun 26

Pancreatic Cancer Is Often Diagnosed Late. The Clues to Catch It Earlier May Already Exist

When detected early, pancreatic cancer has a five-year survival rate of nearly 44%. When detected after it has spread, that rate falls to…

Pancreatic Cancer Is Often Diagnosed Late. The Clues to Catch It Earlier May Already Exist

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Jun 24

Audit Workflows, Reef Cameras, Tokenizer Research: Three CDS Capstone Projects

Most graduate-level coursework ends with a final exam or paper. The CDS Capstone Project ends with research the UN features on its blog…

Audit Workflows, Reef Cameras, Tokenizer Research: Three CDS Capstone Projects

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Jun 17

Why Better Language Models Make Worse Models of Human Reading

As language models have gotten better at guessing the next word in a sentence, they have gotten worse at predicting how people actually…

Why Better Language Models Make Worse Models of Human Reading

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Jun 12

Can AI Learn a Language from a Textbook?

Most of the world’s 7,000 languages will never have enough written text online to train an AI translation system. However, linguists have…

Can AI Learn a Language from a Textbook?

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Jun 3

To Have a Self, an AI Must Live a Life

Every copy of a large language model begins each conversation identical to every other copy. They share the same weights and the same…

To Have a Self, an AI Must Live a Life

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May 27

Head CT Foundation Model Outperforms Commercial Alternatives, Detects Diseases Beyond Hemorrhage

The cheap, fast scans that emergency rooms use to check for strokes and brain bleeds may also detect Alzheimer’s disease and related…

Head CT Foundation Model Outperforms Commercial Alternatives, Detects Diseases Beyond Hemorrhage

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May 22

Will Relying on AI Stop Human Progress? A New Study Tests an Evolutionary Paradox

Overusing artificial intelligence for answers could eventually drag society’s collective knowledge down to a state worse than if the…

Will Relying on AI Stop Human Progress? A New Study Tests an Evolutionary Paradox

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May 20

Why Can’t You Say “One Hour Was Lasted by the Meeting”? Language Models Help Reveal the Answer

English speakers never explicitly learn that some verbs resist the passive voice, yet they know it anyway. Say “the meeting lasted one…

Why Can’t You Say “One Hour Was Lasted by the Meeting”? Language Models Help Reveal the Answer

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