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[ad_1] The race to build artificial general intelligence is colliding with a harsh reality: Large language models might be maxed out.For years, the world’s top AI tech talent has spent billions of dollars developing LLMs, which underpin the most widely used chatbots.The ultimate goal of many of the companies behind these AI models, however, is to develop AGI, a still theoretical version of AI that reasons like humans. And there’s growing concern that LLMs may be nearing their plateau, far from a technology capable of evolving into AGI.AI thinkers who have long held this belief were once written off as…
[ad_1] You’re a student who spent an entire semester researching and writing a 20-page paper. You’ve poured time and effort into the assignment, and you’re looking forward to hearing your professor’s feedback.Instead, you get a mediocre grade and three short paragraphs of vague comments, and you wonder: Did ChatGPT grade my essay?Turns out, it did.That’s a scenario a student recounted to Alex Green, an author and professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Green told Business Insider that the “AI evangelism” push — efforts to use AI across classrooms to make both teaching and learning easier — is doing more harm than…
[ad_1] Brian Chesky is still in founder mode.In an episode of the “Social Radars” podcast published on Saturday, the Airbnb CEO said that he remains involved in personnel decisions for up to 50 employees at the travel company.”What you need to do is you need to have relationships with as many people as possible in the company,” Chesky said. “You need to be as close to the people doing the work as possible.”Chesky, who went viral last year for his talk on leadership styles, said that the only way to work with more people is to go down a level…
[ad_1] Joe Gebbia, a cofounder and former chief product officer of Airbnb, said on Saturday that President Donald Trump has appointed him as the US’s first chief design officer.”My directive is to update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store: beautifully designed, great user experience, run on modern software,” Gebbia, 44, wrote in an X post.Representatives for Gebbia and the White House did not respond to requests for comment from Business InsiderOn Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that created Gebbia’s new role and the National Design Studio. In his order, Trump said it…
[ad_1] Lovable CEO Anton Osika says he thinks people should stop seeing computer science degrees as a surefire way to land a career in tech.”I wouldn’t say it’s worthless, but I do think the leverage has moved,” Osika told Business Insider in an interview on Wednesday.Osika, 35, said that while getting a computer science degree “isn’t useless,” its value has shifted. “Curiosity, adaptability, and shipping high-quality products quickly can matter more than credentials,” he added.”For most people, a degree is no longer the entry ticket. You can build, ship, and even start companies without it,” Osika said.”The degree still has…
[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Katie and Alan Donegan, who retired at 35 and 40, respectively. The couple is originally from the UK and has been nomadic since 2020. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.Katie: Alan and I retired in 2019 after running our own separate businesses for several years. We heard about financial independence, retire early, after we got married, and wanted that freedom and lifestyle for ourselves. We started our savings and investing journey in 2015.Alan: I used to daydream of the first day we were at financial independence (FI) and we could just go out…
[ad_1] In 2019, Tyger Cho graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics and a plan to be a lifelong investor. Four years later, he moved to Korea for what was meant to be a three-month sabbatical.Now, he’s living in Seoul and building a business that aims to create a community for the Korean diaspora like him.Getting here required leaving behind everything he knew. By his mid-20s, Cho felt like he could see exactly what the next 20 years of his life would look like. Good pay, long hours, and climbing the corporate ladder in finance.”I felt like a dead…
[ad_1] The proverb “iron sharpens iron” may ring true for China’s EV industry.Dara Khosrowshahi praised Chinese EV models on the most recent episode of Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, “People by WTF,” calling them “unbelievable.””The innovation coming out of the Chinese OEM and EV business — I’ve never seen anything like it,” Khosrowshahi said.Automakers like BYD have helped China dominate the global EV market, putting pressure on American companies like Tesla and Ford. In June, Ford CEO Jim Farley said Chinese EV models’ in-vehicle technology, cost, and quality were “far superior” to those in the West. A BYD Sealion 7 on display…
[ad_1] Frank Bardelli knew right away that his recent job hunt was going to be different.After the software engineer posted on LinkedIn a couple of months ago that he was looking for a role, he didn’t hear from former colleagues with offers to come work with them again, as he had during past searches.”It was very different, and definitely drier than I’ve seen it be in many years,” Bardelli told Business Insider.So, when he heard from a recruiter at Fonzi, which matches engineers with startups and tech companies, Bardelli was intrigued.He completed a profile and applied to what Fonzi calls…
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which in turn recently merged with xAI), has created considerable controversy this…