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Does the NFL's double digit ratings decline for opener show fan fatigue?
Vikings say Kyler Murray feeling'pretty good,' participating in team meetings despite serious concussion Ella Langley, distractions and Lane Kiffin: Pete Golding calls Ole Miss-LSU'high school homecoming' Mother Jones' WNBA'trans panic' story shows what happens when activism masquerades as journalism'A win is a win' says athlete who didn't let a little diarrhea keep her from finishing in first place Kansas City Chiefs' roster concerns linger as they host the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football Florida State fires AD Michael Alford, as Mike Norvell's seat reaches a boiling point in Tallahassee Madison Beer's bid to become the NFL's next Taylor Swift hits road bump, Browns are a mess & a Daejon Love fan Israeli ambassador to US: Iran's'evil regime' will fall Ben Shapiro warns Democrats' push for AI regulation is a'coordinated operation' Senate back in session as questions remain over Mitch McConnell's return Vance warns fraudsters stealing taxpayer money: 'Go and get a job' Vance warns fraudsters stealing taxpayer money: 'Go and get a job' Mullin weighs in on Obama, Biden judges amid Trump's immigration court fights Marc Thiessen warns US is in an'AI arms race' with China Charlie Kirk monument artist'protecting it from evil' after previous statue vandalized twice Army launches'field tested' campaign OutKick Does the NFL's double digit ratings decline for opener show fan fatigue? The Wednesday game averaged 25.1 million viewers, a 12% decline from last season's Thursday night opener Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, addresses a congressional hearing probing the NFL's streaming practices and rising costs for fans. Jordan discusses the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act and antitrust concerns, as fans face exorbitant prices to access all games across multiple platforms. He emphasizes the need for affordable access to NFL content for all constituents, not just those who can afford expensive packages. The New England Patriots-Seattle Seahawks matchup last week was the NFL's lowest-rated opening-night game since 2022, averaging 25.1 million viewers on NBC and Peacock.
Malik Nabers reveals how Giants coach John Harbaugh helped him overcome his ACL injury fears
Kansas City Chiefs' roster concerns linger as they host the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football Florida State fires AD Michael Alford, as Mike Norvell's seat reaches a boiling point in Tallahassee Madison Beer's bid to become the NFL's next Taylor Swift hits road bump, Browns are a mess & a Daejon Love fan WWE broadcaster believes'the pieces are all in place' for an upset as Penta challenges Roman Reigns for title Denny Hamlin says forward-facing sonar in professional bass fishing has gone'a little overboard' NASCAR driver says quiet part out loud about Sophie Cunningham, the WNBA looks even worse & car goes airborne! Rams' Sean McVay reveals wife's reality check after mulling media jump following losing season in 2022 Caitlin Clark says she and Angel Reese have'always been friends' after winning FIBA Women's World Cup Stefon Diggs guilty of NFL's dumbest move of Week 1 and it may have decided Commanders loss to Eagles John Harbaugh's Giants on full display in bruising win over Cowboys to kick off NFL season'Tradwife' vs. 'girlboss' debate sparks clash over modern womanhood Americans are right to be scared over'God in a box,' AI CEO says This is causing everybody to rethink what is going on in AI: R'Ray' Wang Afghan woman deported in landmark'alien terrorist' court case The New York Giants coach's unorthodox move helped the wide receiver overcome doubt before the season opener against Dallas Giants are'deep sleepers', Jalen Hurts struggles, Will J.J. McCarthy leave the Vikings? Malik Nabers practiced in full for the 2nd-straught day, and John Harbaugh is bringing the hype to New York. Danny Parkins, Eric Mangini, and Geoff Schwartz ask if it's time to buy Giants stock, and if Jalen Hurts and the Eagles will struggle this season. Plus, they ask if it's possible that J.J. McCarthy isn't on the Vikings by Week 1.
Constructing Concept-based Models to Mitigate Spurious Correlations with Minimal Human Effort
Kim, Jeeyung, Wang, Ze, Qiu, Qiang
Enhancing model interpretability can address spurious correlations by revealing how models draw their predictions. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) can provide a principled way of disclosing and guiding model behaviors through human-understandable concepts, albeit at a high cost of human efforts in data annotation. In this paper, we leverage a synergy of multiple foundation models to construct CBMs with nearly no human effort. We discover undesirable biases in CBMs built on pre-trained models and propose a novel framework designed to exploit pre-trained models while being immune to these biases, thereby reducing vulnerability to spurious correlations. Specifically, our method offers a seamless pipeline that adopts foundation models for assessing potential spurious correlations in datasets, annotating concepts for images, and refining the annotations for improved robustness. We evaluate the proposed method on multiple datasets, and the results demonstrate its effectiveness in reducing model reliance on spurious correlations while preserving its interpretability.
MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
Packer, Charles, Fang, Vivian, Patil, Shishir G., Lin, Kevin, Wooders, Sarah, Gonzalez, Joseph E.
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI, but are constrained by limited context windows, hindering their utility in tasks like extended conversations and document analysis. To enable using context beyond limited context windows, we propose virtual context management, a technique drawing inspiration from hierarchical memory systems in traditional operating systems that provide the appearance of large memory resources through data movement between fast and slow memory. Using this technique, we introduce MemGPT (Memory-GPT), a system that intelligently manages different memory tiers in order to effectively provide extended context within the LLM's limited context window, and utilizes interrupts to manage control flow between itself and the user. We evaluate our OS-inspired design in two domains where the limited context windows of modern LLMs severely handicaps their performance: document analysis, where MemGPT is able to analyze large documents that far exceed the underlying LLM's context window, and multi-session chat, where MemGPT can create conversational agents that remember, reflect, and evolve dynamically through long-term interactions with their users. We release MemGPT code and data for our experiments at https://memgpt.ai.
Exclusive: We Interviewed the CEO of SkyNet About Their Recent Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
From mobile work to security and maintenance, perhaps no company has done more for the advancement of technology in today's society than SkyNet, a promising start up out of Austin, Texas that has made great strides during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, their T-400 model of home assistant swept the country, combining at home personal assistants with a walking talking android that actually helped with chores and tasks around the house. We had the opportunity to sit down with Barry Snow, the CEO of the skyrocketing company, about SkyNet's future and some of the backlash to what some have called "unnecessarily violent home assistants." Can I have one of those waters? So, your company was already gaining steam a few years ago, but it really seems that during the pandemic you pulled ahead of a lot of your peers with your home androids.
The Shady Merchants Who Have Been Gaming Amazon's Review System for Years
This article is from Full Stack Economics, a newsletter about the economy, technology, and public policy. My wife wants a can opener for Christmas, so I went on Amazon to find one. I typed "can opener" in the search box and sorted the list by the average customer review. My plan was to get the old-fashioned hand-crank kind. But the first page of results had a bunch of electric can openers with excellent reviews and reasonable prices.
MyQ Smart Garage Hub: Monitor the garage from afar
The MyQ Smart Garage Hub is a simple, standalone WiFi hub that sits in your garage and communicates with your existing garage door opener (and an open/close sensor you stick on the door itself). If you have a wireless garage door opener in your car, the MyQ Hub works the same way--you use the Learn button on the main unit to "teach" the MyQ Hub how to communicate with the opener, allowing you to open the door without a hardwired connection. Only instead of a little button in your car, the MyQ hub gets its signal from your phone, using your home's WiFi connection. It supports Amazon Key for in-garage deliveries, as well as Google Assistant, IFTTT, and a few other smart home platforms. Here are the MyQ Smart Garage Hub's specs: Best of all, Amazon currently offers a $30 credit after your first in-garage delivery with Amazon Key--which means the Smart Garage Hub pays for itself after one in-garage delivery, provided you live in a supported area.
The 100 most popular things everyone bought this year
Here's everything our readers were most obsessed with in 2019. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. As we head into the new year, we think it's fun to look at all the wonderful products that we bought in 2019. This year brought some incredible releases like Disney, Apple AirPods Pro, and the all-new Kindle--and honestly, some of these things were apart of what really make the year great. So we decided to roundup 100 of the most popular products that people bought over and over again. Whether it was a massive sale (looking at you Black Friday) or one of the hottest product people couldn't stop talking about (*cough* weighted blankets *cough*), our readers found something that caught their eyes. From robot vacuums to wireless headphones to streaming services, these are the most popular products that people couldn't stop buying in 2019. Everyone become obsessed with Disney in 2019. Although it was just released in November, the new streaming service Disney became the most popular product of the year. With it came nostalgia for the Disney classics, new original shows and movies, and plenty of Baby Yoda content. Seriously, if you're a fan of Marvel, Disney Princesses, Star Wars, Pixar, and all things Disney, you might want to consider following suit and getting a subscription for yourself. We still love the tried-and-true Instant Pot Duo. It's no surprise here--our readers were all about that Instant Pot life this year. The Duo 6 Quart, a.k.a. the most popular model out there, was far and away the biggest seller this year, and in no small part because of the deals that ran on it during Prime Day and Black Friday, respectively. If you were one of the lucky ducks who nabbed it when it was just $50, good on you. But you can still get it for a pretty good price right now, too. Nobody really wants to vacuum, but they also don't want to spend a fortune on a robot vacuum to do their dirty work. That's why the Eufy 11S was so popular this year. It's the best affordable robot vacuum we've ever tested because it balances great cleaning powering and a reasonable price. Our readers loved scooping it up--especially when it was on sale as it is right now.
The 5 best Amazon deals you can get this Monday
Get great prices on popular cooking gadgets and more with these deals. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. There is no better way to start the week than with a good deal. There's just something about getting something you actually want at a great price that makes my heart soar. I mean, if you were going to get it anyway, you might as well save.