Google AI Introduces Supervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Small Language Models
31 Oct

Google AI Introduces Supervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Small Language Models

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How can a small model learn to solve tasks it currently fails at, without rote imitation or relying on a correct rollout? A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research and UCLA have released a training framework, ‘Supervised Reinforcement Learning’ (SRL), that makes 7B scale models actually learn from very hard math and agent trajectories that normal supervised fine tuning and outcome based reinforcement learning RL cannot learn from. Small open source models such as Qwen2.5 7B Instruct fail on the hardest problems in s1K 1.1, even when the teacher trace is good. If we apply supervised fine tuning…
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YouTube claims AI didn’t influence strange removals of tech tutorials
31 Oct

YouTube claims AI didn’t influence strange removals of tech tutorials

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​ YouTubers suspect AI is bizarrely removing popular video explainers. Credit: Deagreez | iStock / Getty Images Plus This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals were due to automation. Creators grew alarmed when educational videos that YouTube had allowed for years were suddenly being bizarrely flagged as “dangerous” or “harmful,” with no clear way to trigger human review to overturn removals. AI seemed to be running the show, with creators’ appeals allegedly getting…
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Meta’s latest ads highlight a growing societal issue
31 Oct

Meta’s latest ads highlight a growing societal issue

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​For women reading this article, how old were you when you received your first sexual advance from a man? For men reading, ask any woman you know. Better yet, ask several of them. I bet their answers turn your stomach. In late September, The Guardian reported that Meta used back-to-school photos of teenage girls to advertise the Threads app to fully grown men. Girls as young as 13. These photos were posted by regular moms on Facebook and Instagram, some of whom had their profiles set to private. The photos of girls in their school uniforms appeared in-feed as advertisements…
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