Month: May 2024

Alexa will soon lose a popular shopping list feature

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting in July, you won’t be able to add items to lists on third-party apps like Todoist and AnyList with Alexa voice control through their existing Skills. A post on Amazon’s developer site says it’s shutting down access to Alexa Shopping and To-Do lists on July 1st. List … Read more

Netflix’s Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight is postponed

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Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian, and Jake Paul pose onstage during a press conference on May 16th, 2024 | Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images for Netflix Netflix is increasingly getting into live events, with comedy specials, NFL games, and even the WWE, but live action means unpredictability, and today, the streamer announced that a planned July … Read more

Backtracking: Why We Replaced External Feedback With a Lightweight Classifier

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:::info Authors: (1) Gladys Tyen, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, ALTA Institute, and Work done during an internship at Google Research (e-mail: gladys.tyen@cl.cam.ac.uk); (2) Hassan Mansoor, Google Research (e-mail: hassan@google.com); (3) Victor Carbune, Google Research (e-mail: vcarbune@google.com); (4) Peter Chen, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution (chenfeif@google.com); (5) Tony Mak, Google … Read more

What Are the Benchmark Results of GPT-4-Turbo, GPT4, and GPT-3.5-Turbo?

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:::info Authors: (1) Gladys Tyen, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, ALTA Institute, and Work done during an internship at Google Research (e-mail: gladys.tyen@cl.cam.ac.uk); (2) Hassan Mansoor, Google Research (e-mail: hassan@google.com); (3) Victor Carbune, Google Research (e-mail: vcarbune@google.com); (4) Peter Chen, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution (chenfeif@google.com); (5) Tony Mak, Google … Read more

BIG-Bench Mistake: What Is It?

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:::info Authors: (1) Gladys Tyen, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, ALTA Institute, and Work done during an internship at Google Research (e-mail: gladys.tyen@cl.cam.ac.uk); (2) Hassan Mansoor, Google Research (e-mail: hassan@google.com); (3) Victor Carbune, Google Research (e-mail: vcarbune@google.com); (4) Peter Chen, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution (chenfeif@google.com); (5) Tony Mak, Google … Read more

Massive Ticketmaster, Santander data breaches linked to Snowflake cloud storage

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An alleged data breach potentially affecting as many as 560 million Ticketmaster accounts and a confirmed one for Santander Bank may have stemmed from attacks on the cloud storage accounts with a company called Snowflake. As spotted by Bleeping Computer, an investigation from cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock … Read more

LLMs Cannot Find Reasoning Errors, but They Can Correct Them!

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:::info Authors: (1) Gladys Tyen, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, ALTA Institute, and Work done during an internship at Google Research (e-mail: gladys.tyen@cl.cam.ac.uk); (2) Hassan Mansoor, Google Research (e-mail: hassan@google.com); (3) Victor Carbune, Google Research (e-mail: vcarbune@google.com); (4) Peter Chen, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution (chenfeif@google.com); (5) Tony Mak, Google … Read more

In 2013, A Time Traveler Warned Us About Our Bitcoin Future. How Right Was He?

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The time traveler Reddit post is an inextricable part of Bitcoin lore. The text, which supposedly comes from the year 2025, is famous for introducing “The Citadel” concept to the ecosystem. In general, it predicts Bitcoin taking over and the unimaginable horrors caused by the population refusing to spend it because, without inflation, they have … Read more