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‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security

Hundreds of university staff were stationed at picket lines, calling for stronger protections around the use of AI Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The same week union members at the University of Sydney agreed to a 24-hour strike, staff received the results of an internal survey. In the faculty of arts and social…

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Discriminative vs Generative Models: What Are You Actually Learning?

When a supervised model maps an input to an output, it is easy to assume that every model is learning essentially the same relationship.

  • Discriminative models learn conditional probability p(y|x)
  • Generative models learn conditional probability p(x|y) and priors p(y)
  • Discriminative focus on decision boundary, generative on input distributions

·dev.to

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