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#185 – February 28, 2023

Stanford professor: Mass tech layoffs caused by 'social contagion'

Many companies blame their mass layoffs on an economic downturn, but Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer says simple copycat behavior is also at play.

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A DIY wearable for avoiding recognition on IR security cameras.

Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required.

Proponents of the growing field argue that the early weirdness of AI chatbots can be avoided by a human giving the machine all the right instructions.

Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU

LLaMA-13B reportedly outperforms ChatGPT-like tech despite being 10x smaller.

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