Very reputable and trustworthy historically. After the authoritarianization of Hong Kong in 2020 I trust it less specifically on topics the Beijing regime would have enough propaganda interest in to bother threatening the editorial staff over. The rest overall seems good still, and often with coverage with Asia-Oceania perspective which is not typically found in big North American or European news outlets.
In this instance, as they credit, they're just acting as a repeater for Bloomberg though.
the ai is not reconstructing sight. it’s guessing which frame of a video the mouse is currently watching. based on training data created by recording the lit up brains of other mice watching the same video
Interesting. In that case what a terribly misleading / borderline irresponsible article. The video from the study to go along with it was also garbage in explaining this, but I admit I probably got led astray by all the talk of the visual cortex and the skippy frames.
Thank you for this clarification / setting me straight.
Although the software mentioned is pretty good at scoring, a fair percentage of applicants to any university have had no prior interaction with that institution ("stealth applicants"). Moreover the jobs of admin staff are literally dependent on a high volume of qualified applicants. I doubt any admissions operation would use the absence of a score to preclude or penalize otherwise qualified applicants.
I work in higher ed admissions, using Slate, which is also used by at least 3 of the 4 schools mentioned. Fortunately or not admissions operations no longer rely on spreadsheets and mailchimp to collate data and score applicants (interest, merit or otherwise), and the software supporting them is getting pretty advanced.
While I agree this tidbit is newsworthy and icky, what's more disturbing to me is the lack of interest demonstrated by those responsible for educating students...faculty. Any university admin can attest to this. The people most qualified to judge an applicant's merits are surprisingly unwilling to do so in a fair, objective and consistent way. Anecdotal evidence, but I've gotten requests from professors of engineering (including CS faculty) not only to print application PDFs but sort spreadsheets by GPA. As if they can't figure out how to do that themselves.
I believe part of this trend is actually a response to that: admin staff look for more tools/metrics to inform admissions decisions. Misguided or not it's a sign of the times.
