A Chinese firm has just launched a constantly changing set of AI benchmarks

Development of the benchmark at Hongshan began in 2022, following ChatGPT’s breakout success, as an internal tool for assessing which models are worth investing in. Since then, led by partner Gong Yuan, the team has steadily expanded the system, bringing in outside researchers and professionals to help refine it. As the project grew more sophisticated, […]

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5 tips for using GitHub Copilot with issues to boost your productivity

Managing issues in software development can be tedious and time-consuming. But what if your AI peer programmer could streamline this process for you? GitHub Copilot‘s latest issue management features can help developers create, organize, and even solve issues. Below, we’ll dig into these features and how they can save time, reduce friction, and maintain consistency […]

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Visualizing the Impact of Feature Attribution Baselines

Path attribution methods are a gradient-based way of explaining deep models. These methods require choosing a hyperparameter known as the baseline input. What does this hyperparameter mean, and how important is it? In this article, we investigate these questions using image classification networks as a case study. We discuss several different ways to choose a […]

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Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a now-defunct torrenting site 10 years ago — Greece goes tough on torrenting

A Greek man recently received a hefty prison sentence and fine for running a long-defunct torrenting site. The 59-year-old ran a website, P2Planet, that contained over 14,000 torrent file links from 2011 to 2014, and was thus sentenced to five years in prison and a €10,000 fine, plus €1,800 in court fines. The Single-Member Criminal […]

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