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View More NewsArtificial intelligence (AI) systems may outperform doctors at diagnosing patients. In a recent series of experiments led by researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, a preview of the OpenAI large language model (LLM) known as o1 bested human physicians in multiple tests of clinical and diagnostic reasoning. “We tested the AI model against virtually every benchmark, and it eclipsed both prior models and our physician baselines,” said Harvard Medical School professor Arjun K. Manrai, one of the study’s senior authors. Using case studies, the researchers had o1—an older model since usurped by o3—generate a list of possible diagnoses. It…
The U.S. Senate is finally leaping into the first procedural votes on the crypto Digital Assets Market Clarity Act, after the leadership moved early Saturday to start official floor action on the crypto market structure bill, marking the farthest progress yet for the industry’s central policy effort.But this key advance announced after a marathon overnight voting session comes after the bill has missed its window to get a vote before the Senate’s summer break, leaving it in a long-shot position to get approval in September. Though the Clarity Act’s chances are hanging by a thread, it would likely have been…
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He who only knows his own side knows of the case, knows little of that.~John Stuart Mill I started graduate school in 2006. Like a lot of anthropology departments at the time, Rutgers was split between the biological anthropologists and cultural anthropologists. Although we were all supposedly in the same department and required to take some of the same classes, it was like putting the math and the art departments together—except they hated each other.In anthropology, graduate students have to conduct field research, and the first few years are spent figuring out the topic and where to go. I had…
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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those…
from the the-‘fraud’-is-coming-from-inside-the-house dept Back in February the Trump FCC announced it was launching new “reforms” of a major bipartisan FCC program that helps…
Of the various ideas that have been proposed over the years to “reform” the U.S. Supreme Court, the call for imposing term limits on…