2024

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.

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

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.

Tyler Cowen shares his takes on "In Restless Dreams," "The Miracle Worker," "You Can Call Me Bill," and "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."

Tyler Cowen wonders how useful strong AI would be to historical figures like Sumerians, cavemen, and more recent figures like Adlai Stevenson.

via The source of this content is Marginal Revolution.

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.