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Highlights of the Month
Experts Discussing AI and Fact-Checking at Sharda University Seminar
Dr. Swapneel Mehta recently spoke at the National Seminar on AI in Combating Misinformation: Advancing Fact-Checking Practices at Sharda University. The seminar, organized by the School of Media, Film & Entertainment, explored how AI can revolutionize fact-checking and help combat misinformation in the digital age. It featured a hands-on workshop by GNI-certified experts and insights from leading professionals in academia and industry. Dr. Mehta shared his thoughts on the importance of digital trust in the age of AI, engaging with students and faculty on these timely issues.
Shaping the Future of Digital Health at Prince Mahidol Award Conference
Dr. Swapneel Mehta joined an esteemed panel at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Bangkok, discussing the future of healthcare technology alongside global leaders and researchers. He shared insights on conversational AI and digital health interventions, exploring how innovation can drive better health outcomes. The session, facilitated by Prof. Jesse Bump and Eirliani Abdul Rahman, fostered collaboration on sustainable healthcare solutions.
Visit to Aadhar Bahuudeshiya Sanstha in Jalgaon, Maharashtra
The Sakhi team visited Aadhar Bahuudeshiya Sanstha, their NGO partner, to advance the deployment of Sakhi, a digital literacy platform for maternal health. They engaged with local women to better understand their needs and interacted with health workers to explore their daily challenges, assess how Sakhi can support them, and ensure the platform aligns with their requirements.
PhysioPlay, An AI that helps budding physiotherapists practice their diagnostic instinct and logical reasoning on different real world patients personas
PhysioPlay is an AI-powered WhatsApp platform that helps physiotherapy students bridge the gap between theory and real-world diagnosis through interactive, gamified patient simulations. By engaging with AI-driven patient personas, students practice asking diagnostic questions, assess symptoms, and receive instant feedback to refine their reasoning. Unlike traditional, theory-heavy methods, PhysioPlay offers an accessible, risk-free, and cost-effective way to develop clinical confidence and critical thinking. With gamified rewards and dynamic scenarios, it transforms physiotherapy education into a hands-on, engaging experience.
What we are reading at SimPPL
Technical
Jerry Liu on LinkedIn: Mistral OCR is nice and fast but other model...
Mistral OCR is nice and fast but other models outperform it on document processing. We did a comprehensive benchmark on Mistral OCR and compared it against a…
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A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
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Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pullin
In this introduction to the symposium, I first offer an overview of the spectrum of experimental methods in economics, from laboratory experiments to the field experiments that are the subject of this
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We introduce the "Belief State Transformer", a next-token predictor that takes both a prefix and suffix as inputs, with a novel objective of predicting both the next token for the prefix and the previous token for the suffix. The Belief State Transformer effectively learns to solve challenging problems that conventional forward-only transformers...
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The promise of human behavioral simulation--general-purpose computational agents that replicate human behavior across domains--could enable broad applications in policymaking and social science. We present a novel agent architecture that simulates the attitudes and behaviors of 1,052 real individuals--applying large language models to qualitativ...
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This paper analyzes how expectations of Transformative AI (TAI) affect current economic behavior by introducing a novel mechanism where automation redirects labor income from workers to those controlling AI systems, with the share of automated labor controlled by each household depending on their wealth at the time of invention. Using a modified...
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About | Civil Rights Table
The Civil Rights, Technology and Privacy Table breaks down silos between groups in the civil rights, digital rights, media justice and public interest sectors to advance the digital civil rights movement.
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Announcing Artificial Analysis State of AI: China 🇨🇳 For the first time, we are charting the rise of China’s top AI companies to the AI frontier. In this…
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📢 Policy news: The International AI Safety Report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, has just been published! 🔗 Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eknMp4rz ▶︎ The report was written by a diverse group of independent AI experts, nominated by 30 countries, the OECD, the EU, and the UN. ▶︎ It builds on the interim report published in May 2024 (https:/...
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Glad to share new work from Noemi Dreksler, Chloe Ahn, Daniel S. Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Zachary Peskowitz and myself seeking to make sense of public attitudes to AI. We summarised dozens of papers and surveys focused on the United Kingdom and the United States. In the paper, we highlight emerging trends, challenges, and future opportunit...
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The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps - 4th Edition | Andreessen Horowitz
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.
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I am trying to build a D3 visualization similar to this: (Source) I originally started trying to modify Bostock's example of a gradient bump, but I'm leaning towards the idea that perhaps the str...
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The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED) records discrete events related to democratic erosion and autocratic consolidation across countries and over time.
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Daily TV News Summary using GPT. Contribute to internetarchive/newsum development by creating an account on GitHub.
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