Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first real-time speech-to-text model. It ranks #1 of 38 models on Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming. It scores 2.5% WER at 0.13s on final transcripts and 2.5% at 0.12s on first partials. It covers 60 languages with continuous language detection and costs $0.54 per hour during the introductory period. It…
Læs hele historien hos marktechpost.com →For a long time I thought about keeping my writing in a git repository so that it wouldn't suddenly disappear, and so that I could write using the tool I'm most comfortable with (Emacs). But setting it all up didn't seem worth the time and effort. Generative AI brought the time and effort down to…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Decision AI models answer typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. TypeSafe's Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens and returns responses in 70 to 500 milliseconds. We break down how it works and its benchmarks, then compare it with Fastino's GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and 4 open-source rivals. The post Decision AI Models Explained:…
Læs hele historien hos marktechpost.com →I haven't seen this posted yet; I know lots of people here care about pandemic preparedness. It looks like there was a lab leak of pneumonic plague in Russia after a worker "accidentally broke[] a test tube containing live bacteria". Unfortunately she later died at the hospital on a ventilator. DiscussLæs hele historien hos lesswrong.com…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →I thought it would be interesting to try having Claude Code download my entire LessWrong and EA Forum post and comment history and evaluate it for my own cognitive biases and problematic communication patterns. I told it to focus especially on problems that have persisted over my 7-year history on those sites. I also had…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →There’s a controversial and unsettled debate in Communication Studies and Psychology about the utility of existential risk framing. This debate has been hashed out for years in the climate change space. Roughly, the two sides are:Pro x-risk framing: (1) It’s true, so rhetors should state the truth; (2) fear is motivating; (3) if our policy…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Opus 5.5 is a really good writer.I had a conversation about some stuff related to how hospitals work, and some vague hunches I had about AI alignment ideas, and Duncan's new "deer in the subway" post, then I asked it to write an essay and it wrote this. I think it's really good so I'm…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →
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Læs hele historien hos arstechnica.com →This post was originally written for my Substack. Please feel free to subscribe if this kind of content interests you!Frontier AI companies have long had the stated goal of automating their own research. The default plan has been to build models that are even better than their most skilled researchers at advancing the frontier, and…
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