AI-supported coding paper concluded: “After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%—AI tooling slowed developers down.” metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Exper…
Interesting paper looking at "leaving science as a scholarly theme": how many people who publish a paper continue to publish (or stop) over time. For medicine, by 5 years about 75% are still publishing; by 10 years 55%; by 20 years about 35%. link.springer.com/article/10…
EMERSE Community Meeting, Tuesday October 1, 2024, 1-2 PM ET. Topic: Version 7 release, with embedded natural language processing (NLP) and other new features/capabilities. Open to everyone. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
'Artificial Intelligence' in goods & service descriptions decreased purchased intention: "the negative mediating effect of emotional trust on the impact of AI term on purchase intention was stronger for high-risk products, compared to low-risk products."
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OpenAI's levels of AI capabilities. We're getting close to level 2:
Level 1: Current Chatbots
Level 2: Solves problems at level of a PhD
Level 3: Takes actions on a user's behalf
Level 4: Can innovate
Level 5: Performs work of entire organizations
theverge.com/2024/7/11/24196…
The drug Anakinra sounds similar to the famous novel "Anna Karenina". One could even combine them to form the title "Anakinra Karenina". This got me thinking: maybe other novels could also be renamed/rebranded with drug names. A few of my suggestions:
Warfarin and Peace (1/3)
Mobic Dick
Alesse in Wonderland
The Count of Montelukast
A Taleranol of Two Cities
The Sound and the Furosemide
One Hundred Years of Solatene
Don Quibron-T
Madame Boniva
The Calomist of the Wild
Gonal-f with the Wind
Adventures of Huckleberry Finasteride
(2/3)
The Catcher in the Rytary
Bravelle New World
Robaxin Crusoe
Scarlet Letairis
The Bell Jardiance
Song of Solumedrol
The Sun Also Rizatriptan
Nineteen Eighty-Forteo
On the Rodocaine
The Picture of Doriden Gray
A Passage to Inderal
(3/3)
Report on Riskiest Connected Devices in 2024: "Medical information systems...store very sensitive information which is valuable on the dark web...Despite the criticality of their data, thousands of these systems can still be found exposed online." forescout.com/research-labs/…
Open letter about risks of AI, from former employees of OpenAI & Google: "...risks range from..entrenchment of.. inequalities, to manipulation and misinformation, to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction." righttowarn.ai
I tried to make a heatmap of counties in Michigan using Excel. Excel sent the data to Bing to generate the image, and what I got back was...not Michigan (left, in the image). For comparison, a true outline of the state is on the right.