Automated trading crashed the market once, in 2010, with no AI involved
A rule-based sell order and a herd of high-frequency traders drove the 2010 Flash Crash, while the case that AI agents will cause the next one still rests on simulations.
PaLM's training ran at 46 percent efficiency, or 58, depending on which FLOPs you count
A lab reports it to show a training run used its chips well, and precision plus a sparsity footnote can swing the peak underneath it fourfold on a single card.
ReAct searched Wikipedia between thoughts and still trailed chain-of-thought on HotpotQA
Yao's team prompted PaLM-540B with one or two examples, and reading a real Wikipedia line before each thought erased the invented facts that were chain-of-thought's most common failure mode.
The same open model returns identical text two to three times faster on one service
A small draft model guesses the next few tokens and the big model checks them all in a single pass, so the words that would have come one at a time arrive in bursts.
Cigna doctors denied over 300,000 claims in two months without opening the files
Its PxDx software flagged claims whose procedure did not match an approved diagnosis, and medical directors signed the denials in batches at about 1.2 seconds each.