Toward Machine Interpreting: Lessons from Human Interpreting Studies

Current speech translation systems, while having achieved impressive accuracies, are rather static in their behavior and do not adapt to real-world situations in ways human interpreters do. In order to improve their practical usefulness and enable interpreting-like experiences, a precise understanding of the nature of human interpreting is crucial. To this end, we discuss human …

Vibe coding platform Cursor releases first in-house LLM, Composer, promising 4X speed boost

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is designed to execute coding tasks quickly and accurately in production-scale environments, representing a new step in AI-assisted programming. It’s already being used by Cursor’s own …

Improving Language Model Personas via Rationalization with Psychological Scaffolds

Language models prompted with a user description or persona are being used to predict the user’s preferences and opinions. However, existing approaches to building personas mostly rely on a user’s demographic attributes and/or prior judgments, but not on any underlying reasoning behind a user’s judgments. We introduce PB&J (Psychology of Behavior and Judgments), a framework …

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AI Infrastructure and Ontology

Under the Hood of NVIDIA and Palantir Turning Enterprise Data into Decision Intelligence On Tuesday, October 28 in Washington, DC, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced our partnership and how we’ll be making NVIDIA models available through Palantir AIP — and pushing Ontology to the edge through NVIDIA’s accelerated compute. “Palantir and NVIDIA share a vision that …