Figs will give shoppers $50 off a new set of scrubs when they trade in their old ones. The program is running through Earth Month and the company will recycle all the traded-in scrubs. via Modern Retail.

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Tyler Cowen argues in this simple model that AI social media digests will decrease time spent browsing due to the substitution effect, letting users prioritize enjoyment. via Marginal Revolution

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Researchers put ChatGPT to the test, measuring its ability to mimic user behavior in tree testing on the IRS website and found near-perfect task completion, surpassing human participants. via MeasuringU.

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Tyler Cowen shares his takes on "In Restless Dreams," "The Miracle Worker," "You Can Call Me Bill," and "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."
via Marginal REVOLUTIONTyler Cowen wonders how useful strong AI would be to historical figures like Sumerians, cavemen, and more recent figures like Adlai Stevenson.
A new 2.7B parameter language model named BioMedLM, now available on Hugging Face, shows strong performance on biomedical question answering after fine-tuning. via Hugging Face.

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