Artificial intelligence (AI) can increase CPA practice effectiveness and output without additional headcount. It can be particularly helpful in small firms where staffing, budgets, and resources are limited. Firms are already using AI to speed up tax work, support audit and assurance work, and build simple tools to improve communication with clients. According to a […]
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Families are turning to AI for their mental health advice. getty In today’s column, I examine a newly emerging trend that might be quite surprising: entire families are turning to generative AI and large language models (LLMs) as their mental health advisors. The idea is that each family member opts to tap into AI to […]
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As organizations embrace AI-powered analytics, the value of a natural language (Text2SQL) answer is only as good as the business context behind it. We’re entering a phase where semantic richness (table and column descriptions, and relationships) must flow directly from where it’s authored in upstream data catalogs and semantic tools into the AI products that […]
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The AI field has found its new superpower: reinforcement learning with a clean, checkable answer key. Give a model a math problem, parse the boxed number at the end, and if it matches, reward it. Give it a coding task, run the test cases, and if they pass, reward it. This formula — known as […]
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I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI “reasoning”? Sorry for the air quotes. That punctuational side-eye was more common in 2024, when the specially trained cousins of LLMs now known as “large reasoning models,” or LRMs, were still new. Nowadays it may seem downright churlish, though, given that a “general-purpose […]
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As the battle rages for control of artificial intelligence, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that AI models from ChatGPT to the bot on the plumbing supply store’s website know an awful lot about you. BBTW editor spoke with Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, to understand what AI companies […]
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Kalinin, S. V. et al. Automated and autonomous experiments in electron and scanning probe microscopy. ACS Nano 15, 12604–12627 (2021). Article PubMed Google Scholar Kusne, A. G. et al. On-the-fly closed-loop materials discovery via Bayesian active learning. Nat. Commun. 11, 5966 (2020). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Darvish, K. et al. ORGANA: a robotic […]
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A new preprint from Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Lab, now available on arXiv, challenges one of the quieter orthodoxies in modern machine learning: that when you fine-tune a pre-trained policy with online reinforcement learning, you absolutely must carry over a pre-trained Q-function alongside it. The paper argues that in many common settings, this assumption is not […]
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OpenAI lowers prices on smaller models as companies seek to reduce AI costs OpenAI formally announced Thursday that it is cutting prices on two of its low- and mid-tier AI models, potentially increasing competition in the industry as U.S. companies vie with cheaper Chinese rivals for customers increasingly wary of rising technology costs. Sam Altman’s […]
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Some of America’s largest technology companies are calling on the US government to make open artificial intelligence a national priority as China continues to build on its lead in the field. Their message reveals gaps in U.S. policy. The US has a chip strategy for AI. We need an open model strategy now. Proponents argue […]
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