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Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark

Ars Technica

Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers and unusually shaped ornaments, which set the standard for haute couture among birds. Many use these feathers for flamboyant mating displays in which they shape-shift into otherworldly forms.

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Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

Futurism

Once gunning to be OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's " favorite guinea pig ," Klarna is now plotting a big recruitment drive after its AI customer service agents couldn't quite hack it. Two years after partnering with OpenAI to automate marketing and customer service jobs, financial tech startup Klarna says it's longing for human connection again.

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Klarna is hiring humans again as AI replacements offer "lower quality" output

TechSpot

CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski reached out to OpenAI boss Sam Altman in 2023, telling him "I want Klarna to be your favorite guinea pig," and the two firms have worked together ever. Buy now, pay later/shopping service Klarna is one of the companies that have really been going all-in on AI. Read Entire Article

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Going ‘AI-first’ appears to be backfiring on Klarna and Duolingo

Fast Company Tech

Two years ago, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski announced he wanted his company to be the “favorite guinea pig” of OpenAI, instituting a hiring freeze and replacing as many workers as possible with AI systems. Klarna and Duloingo have been some of the poster children for the “AI-first” workplace.

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This AI scans Reddit for ‘extremist’ terms and plots bot-led intervention

Fast Company Tech

This isnt the first time Redditors have been used as guinea pigs in recent months. Discomfort sparks debate. Debate leads to oversight. And oversight is how we prevent the misuse of emerging technologies, he continued.

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Retail investors or guinea pigs?

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. There is a paradox when it comes to retail investors: Many startup-related deals are out of their reach (in part for their own sake).

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A Social Media Measurement Nonprofit Guinea Pig: Thanks Tim! Please add your thoughts!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. Any other guinea pigs out there that want to try this model? Translates your results in a value, if you can and compute the ROI.

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