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Image created by author using Dall-EBenchmarking OpenAI function calling and explanationsThanks to Roger Yang for his contributions to this pieceObservability in third-party large language models (LLMs) is largely approached with benchmarking and evaluations since models like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s GPT models, and Google’s PaLM 2 are proprietary. In this blog post, we benchmark OpenAI’s GPT models with function calling and explanations against various performance metrics. We are specifically interested in how the…

Plenty of movies are “based on a true story”, which can sometimes increase their ability to elicit strong emotional reactions from fans. 2009’s The Blind Side was one of those projects, and earned Sandra Bullock her very first Academy Award in the process. But the real-life subjects of the movie have been involved in some controversies lately, with Michael Oher claiming he was never actually adopted by the Tuoy family, and filing a lawsuit against them. While they’ve been having a legal battle, Oher’s foster brothers are…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been behind some of the most eye-watering fines and censures of big tech companies in the last few years. But now arguably the biggest big tech company of them all is seeking to get its own back—by petitioning a court to declare the FTC is unconstitutional.In May 2023, the FTC sought to strengthen a privacy order Meta signed with the regulator in 2020 that would block the tech company from making money off its younger users. As part of the order, Meta was required to pay $5 billion…

The traditional way to make a cellphone call is for your handset to ping whichever base station you’re closest to, with your voice and the voice of the person you’re speaking to flying through the air via radio waves. However, there might be times when the signal between your phone and the base station is weak, or congested, or non-existent.Who’s This Thing Actually for? | PlayStation Portal Hands OnIn those situations, wifi calling can sometimes help. It uses the wifi that you’re relying on to browse the web, stream…

In a surprising turn of events, Simple Energy, a Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler start-up, has commenced issuing refunds to all customers who pre-booked its inaugural product, the Simple One electric scooter. The company is reaching out to individuals who pre-booked the Simple One EV through phone calls and emails to inform them about the cancellation of their bookings. The official communication from Simple Energy assures customers of a complete refund of the booking amount without any deductions. Why is Simple…

Because Brad Pitt has “great respect for all of his children,” he will continue his stance of generally not commenting on them to the media, even after news broke Monday that his second son Pax Jolie-Pitt allegedly called him a “world-class a-hole” and an “awful human being” in a resurfaced social media post. Page Six cited a source close to the Oscar-winning actor who said that he has “no reaction” to a Daily Mail report, which published a screenshot of Pax Jolie Pitt’s private 2020 Instagram post. According to the…

Image Source : FILE Social media It has been reported that hundreds of US families are unhappy with social media giants like Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok and Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram). As per the report, the families think that the tech companies are "big, bad monsters". As per the BBC report, the plaintiffs further include ordinary families…

Disney is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and anticipation is especially high for Wish, its animated November offering. Many of the Walt Disney Animation Studios’ best features have come around Thanksgiving in years past, including Frozen, Coco, Wreck-It Ralph and Encanto. Wish features Asha (Ariana DeBose) as its heroine, who rebels against King Magnifico (Chris Pine) when she discovers the injustice of the king keeping — and only sparingly granting — his subjects’ deepest wishes. Critics have seen the…

Microsoft hosted its annual Ignite conference for developers and IT professionals. At this event, the tech giant announced new changes and features for multiple products and services including Windows, Microsoft 365 and Azure. Microsoft has also announced several new updates for its Slack-like collaboration and messaging service, Teams. One of the key highlights is the AI-driven noise reduction feature. Microsoft has started the initial rollout of this voice isolation feature can not only reduce repetitive noise in the…

Huawei Mate 60 series is expected to launch soon. The upcoming lineup is likely to succeed the Huawei Mate 50 series, which was released in September 2022. The Mate 50 series included the Huawei Mate 50, Huawei Mate 50 Pro, and the Huawei Mate 50 RS Porsche Design. Huawei's new Mate 60 lineup may also similarly include a base and a pro model, although nothing has been officially confirmed yet. Now, a new report has surfaced that suggests the rumoured Mate 60 series handsets may offer advanced satellite connectivity…