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

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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.

A new study found that law students using GPT-4 didn't improve work quality but did work faster, with the AI being most helpful to lower-performing students. via Marginal REVOLUTION.

Matt Webb explores the future of personal AI agents and how new search engines might help them locate and utilize tools like apps. via Interconnected

Tyler Cowen shares seven links, including one featuring research about giant worms. via Marginal REVOLUTION

TnT-LLM, a new framework, uses large language models (LLMs) to automate text mining tasks like generating label taxonomies and building text classifiers. via Hugging Face.