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GoogleBlog - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 08:00

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Categories: Technology

Study Accuses LM Arena of Helping Top AI Labs Game Its Benchmark

Slashdot.org - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 08:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena, of helping a select group of AI companies achieve better leaderboard scores at the expense of rivals. According to the authors, LM Arena allowed some industry-leading AI companies like Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon to privately test several variants of AI models, then not publish the scores of the lowest performers. This made it easier for these companies to achieve a top spot on the platform's leaderboard, though the opportunity was not afforded to every firm, the authors say. "Only a handful of [companies] were told that this private testing was available, and the amount of private testing that some [companies] received is just so much more than others," said Cohere's VP of AI research and co-author of the study, Sara Hooker, in an interview with TechCrunch. "This is gamification." Further reading: Meta Got Caught Gaming AI Benchmarks.

Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15 - Phoronix

Linux News - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 07:40

Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15 Phoronix

Categories: Linux

Windows 11's WSL 2 now officially has support from Arch Linux with monthly images promised - Windows Central

Linux News - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 07:01

Windows 11's WSL 2 now officially has support from Arch Linux with monthly images promised Windows Central

Categories: Linux

Starting July 1, Academic Publishers Can't Paywall NIH-Funded Research

Slashdot.org - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 07:00

An anonymous reader writes: NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has announced that the NIH Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1. From Bhattacharya's announcement: NIH is the crown jewel of the American biomedical research system. However, a recent Pew Research Center study shows that only about 25% of Americans have a "great deal of confidence" that scientists are working for the public good. Earlier implementation of the Public Access Policy will help increase public confidence in the research we fund while also ensuring that the investments made by taxpayers produce replicable, reproducible, and generalizable results that benefit all Americans. Providing speedy public access to NIH-funded results is just one of the ways we are working to earn back the trust of the American people. Trust in science is an essential element in Making America Healthy Again. As such, NIH and its research partners will continue to promote maximum transparency in all that we do.