1+ week, 5+ day ago   (437+ words) Like many AI systems, Instacart’s product-replacement system needs to gauge its own confidence in order to turn predictions into actions. AI takes on complex tasks that are impossible to solve perfectly. In fact, that may be as good a definition…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (490+ words) For most of human history, wanting to know something required effort. You had to ask someone, read, experiment, investigate, compare sources, make mistakes, or sit with a problem long enough to make sense of it. Generative AI can compress much…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) These two giants in legal tech now have a new competitor. Filevine’s LOIS, or “legal operating intelligence system," can find semantic similarities even if a particular case is not cited by another court, focusing on the underlying reasoning rather than…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (873+ words) In mission-driven organizations, poor resource utilization means the individuals who rely on services end up paying the price for waste. The Omnipresence Of Waste In Mission-Driven Organizations Ryan Dewey Smith, a veteran of the nonprofit sector, highlights pervasive resource waste…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (963+ words) In today’s column, I examine an emerging trend associated with AI sandboxes that some might say is not only disconcerting but outright dangerous. First, an AI sandbox is a specialized computer server environment designed to test new AI models. Second,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (193+ words) GitHub, the developer platform widely used for coding, says it is showing “strong signs of recovery” after implementing a fix for status issues that have caused outages throughout the morning, though it says it is still working to completely restore…...