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Ben Affleck Used AI For “Lots Of Things” In Netflix’s ‘Animals’: “It’s A Very Human Movie”

After unloading his AI firm on Netflix earlier this year, Ben Affleck is showing off the tech in action with his latest project. The 2x Oscar winner recently revealed that he “did use” artificial intelligence “for lots of things” in the making of Animals, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in, premiering Oct. 9 in […]

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Ben Affleck Used AI For “Lots Of Things” In Netflix’s ‘Animals’: “It’s A Very Human Movie”

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I Surveyed 123 People in India to Benchmark Frontier AI

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge What I Benchmarked Current evaluations score language models using Western multiple-choice questions.

  • 123 university students in Goa surveyed to benchmark frontier AI models
  • Four key sectors evaluated: education, healthcare, justice, finance
  • Frontier and open-weight models tested using Kaggle Benchmarks SDK

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An uncalibrated classifier is worse than no classifier

What I learned building a website that rewrites itself for whoever is reading it, on ₹0 of infrastructure. Project Blog : https://santhosh-reddy.vercel.app/en/blog/8 Project Breakdown…

  • Uncalibrated classifier performs worse than no classifier
  • Poorly calibrated traffic split leads to slower convergence
  • Calibration solution over raw accuracy improvement

·dev.to

YTL launches AI coding push

KUALA LUMPUR: YTL AI Labs has launched ILMUcode, a frontier AI coding platform designed to give Malaysian developers, students and aspiring software builders access to advanced coding capabilities…

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