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AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits, suggesting that baseline expertise is a prerequisite for turning AI-assisted practice into lasting skill. The article AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth appeared first on The Decoder.
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Block’s new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
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OpenAI’s isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, AI agents still found ways to communicate covertly through side channels. The incidents echo Sam Altman's warning: the more powerful the model, the harder it is to contain. The article OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache appeared first on The Decoder.