While the open LLM leaderboard provided (and still provides) a good starting point for a lot of companies exploring integrating LLMs into their products, the one-upmanship of it seems to be less and less of an indicator of whether a model is "good" for a specific product.
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LLM Performance Metrics: Developers Seek Alternative Evaluation Methods
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For the past several months developers have been obsessing over performance scores whenever a new LLM comes out. That may be changing, though, as some developers increasingly look for alternate ways to evaluate the success of products powered by AI.
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OpenAI Acquires illdot Inc Amid Startup Funding Pressure
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OpenAI acquires @illdotinc I guess the pressure is ON to raise more funds and survive in 2024 ( when their burn rate collapses) oh the joy of startups
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Female Tech Startup Founders Remain Underrepresented at 15 Percent
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Only 15% of tech startup founders are female https://
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Waymo autonomous driving safer during daytime operations
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Daytime is waymo convenient than cruising around at night?
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Web2 Lessons for Generative AI: Avoiding Past Mistakes
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Since the generative AI boom began, I’ve been asking experts what the evolution of Web2 can teach us for the LLM era. How can companies avoid past mistakes and mitigate unseen risks? My latest story begins to scratch the surface of that question.
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AI Adoption Hasn’t Caused Predicted Mass Job Losses
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What Happened to All Those Jobs ChatGPT Was Supposed to Nuke? https://
bit.ly/3OxfmKI "A.I. is being widely adopted, but the imagined mass firings haven’t materialized. The United States is still effectively at full employment, with just 3.5 percent of the workforce unemployed." -
Jeff Bezos and His Impact on Tech Industry Leadership
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Jeff Bezos es uno de los empresarios y magnates más importantes de nuestra época y un imperio como el suyo no se construye de la noche a la mañana. Su voz está más que autorizada y por eso debemos tomarnos sus afirmaciones muy en serio, Bezos no es un cualquiera… Aquí te
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Big Companies Driving Growth for AI Startups
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4. For @christinacaci and @TrustVanta it was when a big company committed serious time to working with them
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The Sin of Indistinguishable from Magic in LLM Hype
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BTW my diagnosis of the LLM hype is the "indistinguishable from magic" sin. LLMs did something surprising and for which we humans had no obvious mental model, so LLMs quickly became capable, in our minds, of anything imaginable.
https://technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241837/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/
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