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Emilia David

Emilia David

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    College admission officers don’t know what to do with AI-generated personal essays.

    Incoming college students might be using ChatGPT to help write personal essays, which have become more important for university applications with the end of affirmative action programs.

    Admissions officers and colleges remain divided on how to think about the AI tools: if they hinder students’ ability to argue and tell a story, or if they democratize access to writing coaches.

    Emilia David
    Emilia David
    Walmart turns on a generative AI workplace app for 50k employees.

    My Assistant, a generative AI-powered feature of its larger Me@Campus app, will be rolled out to Walmart employees working in the company’s different offices in the US. Around 50,000 employees can use it to help summarize large documents or draft questions.

    The company would not tell The Verge who it partnered with to built the tool, but said it will be working on bringing more generative AI to employees, including to those working in its many stores in the US and internationally.

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    Emilia David
    Google can now use LLMs to command robot dogs to walk and run.

    Google engineers developed a new method they call SayTap, which they said bridges the gap between a prompt and the precise code that tells a robot dog, or other four-legged robots, where to put its feet down. LLMs generally have a hard time processing such low-level commands given to robots, which usually involve typing in the exact angle for a leg.

    Researchers can write a prompt like “back off” and then input a set pattern of numbers that indicate if the legs should be on the ground or lifted up.