In 2021, researchers made a striking discovery while training a series of tiny models on toy tasks [1]. They found a set of models that suddenly flipped from memorizing their training data to correctly generalizing on unseen inputs after training for much longer. This phenomenon – where generalization seems to happen abruptly and long after fitting... See more
Some Data on the Opportunity & Desire for Trust: As we’ve discussed before in Implications, the new “trust, but verify” is becoming “verify, then trust” as we enter an era in which we can no longer believe our eyes. Here are a few key findings worth sharing from a research study our team recently did at Adobe:
Google gives you Ten Blue Links, which communicates “it might be one of these - see what you think” (and turns us all into Mechanical Turks, giving Google feedback by picking the best answer). But a chat bot gives you three paragraphs of text with apparent certainty as The Answer, and footnotes, a click-through disclaimer and a ‘be careful!’... See more
React Components for the Google Maps JavaScript API
This is a TypeScript / JavaScript library to integrate the Maps JavaScript API into your React application. It comes with a collection of React components to create maps, markers and infowindows, and a set of hooks to use some of the Maps JavaScript API Services and Libraries.