Deepa Seetharaman

@deepa.bsky.social

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tech reporter covering A.I. Ping me on Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/SX-5fAfwgTQcgsbLtDC8E47LII_kSHE0PhkJgq-IdcaAZZvn4jxF67TNs80HUW4f

Screenshot from a story that says: Large language models are rapidly conquering complex tasks in math and coding, but can still fail at comparatively trivial tasks. Researchers call this contradiction in capabilities the “jagged frontier” of AI. “It might be a Ferrari in math but a donkey at putting things in your calendar,” said Anastasios Angelopoulos, the CEO and cofounder of LMArena, a popular benchmarking tool.
Excerpt from a Washington Post story about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza with the following sentence highlighted: This new iteration of Nuzzi, though entertaining, is a backstab not just to her former fiancé, but to all journalists who, toiling for insubstantial compensation, wouldn’t consider getting romantically involved with a source or subject.
A screenshot of a paragraph from a Washington Post story about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative pulling its funding from a school for low-income students: The impacts of the shuttering on families and the local school district show the risks for communities that depend on wealthy donors for essential services or support. A billionaire’s change of heart can destabilize vulnerable families or local government finances.