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Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Following an earlier report from Inc. columnist Jason Aten that detailed the issue, Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone pushed back, making it clear that the company does not believe its product did this without the user’s…

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…

Usually, I create a base measure with the aggregation and some base operation, like scaling.

Allow me to paint a scene: you get a new dataset and need to explore it, so you don’t change a single number, but you make three different visualizations. If you showed those visualizations to three different people, they’d likely walk away with three slightly different impressions of what the data means. That is one…

When I ask a data scientist to explain an analysis, I am often handed a pull request and sent away to understand the implementation. Twenty minutes later, I may understand how the code is organized and still not know what the data showed. I want to understand the question, what we found, and whether the…

Part 1 of this series, “Why a green test suite can mean nothing”, started from the golden rule I worked to on General Motors’ Super Cruise and Ultra Cruise programs: the person who builds the system must never be the person who verifies it. It then described a new workflow that enforces that rule between…

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers…

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes.

Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement.

Overall accuracy is a weighted average — and the weights are whatever your evaluation set happens to contain. If your eval set is 90% group A and 10% group B, a model scoring 95% on A but only 60% on B still reports a comfortable 91.5% overall: