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Browser-based Time Retrieval

Clock skew - the phenomenon where computer clocks diverge from real time - remains a challenge even in the modern age of computing. A common solution is to periodically synchronize clocks with Internet time sources (“NTP”), but heavily firewalled servers may not benefit and can still drift. In scenarios where matching timestamps in log files is ... Read more...

Browser-based Time Retrieval

Clock skew - the phenomenon where computer clocks diverge from real time - remains a challenge even in the modern age of computing. A common solution is to periodically synchronize clocks with Internet time sources (“NTP”), but heavily firewalled servers may not benefit and can still drift. In scenarios where matching timestamps in log files is ... Read more...

AI Jaggedness vs Transition Turbulence

Ethan Mollick describes the Jagged Frontier of AI as strong performance on some tasks, brittle or poor performance on others that look similarly hard to humans. It is tempting to assume this frontier advances smoothly over time - as is usual with technological progress. Helen Toner - interim executive director at Georgetown University’s Center f... Read more...

AI Jaggedness vs Transition Turbulence

Ethan Mollick describes the Jagged Frontier of AI as strong performance on some tasks, brittle or poor performance on others that look similarly hard to humans. It is tempting to assume this frontier advances smoothly over time - as is usual with technological progress. Read more...

Safety evaluation competition on OpenAI gpt-oss concluded

The Kaggle safety evaluation “red-teaming” challenge on OpenAI gpt-oss has concluded with a ~~workshop~~ symposium this week. The symposium opened with talks from D. Sculley, our host and OpenAI researcher focused on responsible and reliable ML, and Samuel Marks, an AI safety researcher at Anthropic. After the keynotes, we prize-winning teams an... Read more...