UC Berkeley is a public research university in Berkeley, California, whose researchers are active in AI. Recent coverage includes TokenGate, an attention method developed with Stanford that speeds up long-context prefill by up to 11.3x; professor and Fields medalist Richard Borcherds no longer grading homework because of student AI use; and a Berkeley team's peer-reviewed COLM study of 1,222 participants finding that 10 minutes of AI use impairs persistence on difficult tasks.
Stanford, Berkeley introduce TokenGate attention methodResearchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley introduce TokenGate, a token-gated attention mechanism that makes long-context prefill up to 11.3x faster, potentially reducing compute costs for long-text inference.
AI Use Leads Berkeley Professor to Stop Grading HomeworkRichard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades students' homework. Seeing many students use AI to consistently score top marks, he said paying readers to grade for correctness serves 'no point,' as AI use is now unavoidable.
Study: 10 Minutes of AI Use Erodes PersistenceA UC Berkeley team's peer-reviewed study at the COLM conference, with 1,222 participants in randomized controlled trials, found that relying on an AI tool for just 10 minutes significantly impairs focus and persistence on difficult tasks. Researcher Brian Christian says the finding confirms many people's gut concerns.
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