Dr. Morgan was a professor of African and African American studies and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard. While there, she founded the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute in the university's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.| The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.| South China Morning Post
One of the reasons that we're still not seeing delivery drones in common use lies in the fact that they can only fly for about half an hour per battery-charge. According to a new study, though, their range could be extended if they hitched rides on top of buses.| New Atlas
Stand back and take a look at the last two years of AI progress as a whole... AI is catching up with humans so quickly, in so many areas, that frankly, we need new tests.| New Atlas
Dr. Wolf, the Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has taught electrical engineering for nearly four decades. She has previously served on the faculty at the Georgia Tech and Princeton University.| Women In Academia Report
To make AI more human-like, must we sacrifice its power? A new study shows why LLM efficiency creates a gap in understanding. The post Why LLMs don’t think like you: A look at the compression-meaning trade-off first appeared on TechTalks.| TechTalks
Stanford's Alpaca AI performs similarly to the astonishing ChatGPT on many tasks – but it's built on an open-source language model and cost less than US$600 to train up. It seems these godlike AIs are already frighteningly cheap and easy to replicate.| New Atlas
The Student Press Law Center and the First Amendment Coalition today wrote to Stanford University President Jonathan D. Levin to request he take specific steps to address the university’s mishandling of the June 5 arrest of a student journalist covering a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus.| Student Press Law Center
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Stanford Daily reporter Dilan Gohill spoke publicly for the first time about his arrest in June while covering an occupation of the Stanford president’s office. The prosecutor still hasn’t officially pursued or declined the felony charges against Gohill, and Stanford disciplinary proceedings are also pending.| Student Press Law Center
Ordinarily, in order to establish communications at locations such as disaster sites, rescuers have to transport and set up relatively bulky, costly satellite dishes. Soon, however, a simple tubular antenna made of woven strips of material may get the job done.| New Atlas
