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Redcar and Cleveland tops rankings for most allotment land per person, while there is a dearth of supply in Scotland
The north-east of England is Great Britain’s allotment heartland, with Redcar and Cleveland and County Durham the two councils with the highest rate of allotment provision per person, an analysis has found.
It also revealed that Scotland on average has just a quarter of the space per person that is available in England.
Cohere
- Cohere focuses on AI for business day to day, not personal tasks, said cofounder Nick Frosst.
- Founded in 2019, Cohere is a Canadian enterprise-focused LLM startup.
- Unlike Meta and Google, Cohere is not prioritizing making its AI chatty or human-like.
One AI company cares little about being your digital best friend.
On an episode of the “20 VC” podcast published on Monday, Cohere cofounder Nick Frosst said that he’s not aiming to make the company’s large language model chatty and interesting.
“When we train our model, we’re not training it to be an amazing conversationalist with you,” Frosst said. “We’re not training it to keep you interested and keep you engaged and occupied. We don’t have like engagement metrics or things like that.”
The Canadian AI startup was founded in 2019 and focuses on building for other businesses, not for consumers. It competes with other foundational model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral and counts Dell, SAP, and Salesforce among customers.
“One of the reasons why we’re focused on the enterprise is because that’s really where I think large language models are useful,” the cofounder said. “If I look at my personal life, there’s not a ton that I want to automate. I actually don’t want to respond to text messages from my mom faster. I want to do it more often, but I want to be writing those.”
Given its business focus, Frosst said that Cohere trains its model on very different data sets than other model providers.
“We generate a whole bunch of data to create like fake companies and fake emails between people at these fake companies and fake APIs within those fake companies,” he said, referring to synthetic training data.
The company was valued at $6.8 billion in a fundraise last month led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital. Cohere did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Other LLM companies, such as Meta, Google, xAI, and OpenAI, have been pouring resources into making their models smarter, funnier, and more human-like as they race to monetize their chatbots.
In July, Business Insider reported that Meta is training chatbots that can be built in its AI studio to be more proactive and message users unprompted to follow up on past conversations. The idea is to interact with users a number of times, store conversations in memory, and reach out with an engaging prompt to restart a chat.
AI companies are also avoiding making their bots sound arrogant, which could drive users to a competitor or raise questions about bias.
Google and Meta have a list of internal guidelines for training their chatbots to avoid sounding annoying or “preachy,” Business Insider reported in July. Freelancers for Alignerr and Scale AI’s Outlier have been instructed to spot and remove any hint of a lecturing or nudging tone from chatbot answers, including in conversations about sensitive or controversial topics.
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In today’s newsletter: Poor teacher recruitment and retainment puts children on the back foot before they barely step in the classroom
Good morning. It’s back-to-school week, and the daily ritual (or, perhaps, panic) begins as uniforms are being donned and lunchboxes packed across the UK to start a new year. My sympathies to you teachers setting early morning alarms, and parents dragging children out of bed after six weeks of lie-ins.
Last year, Keir Starmer promised to leave “no stone unturned to give every child the very best start at life”, but how is that going? More than half a million GCSE students in England will start the year with no physics teacher, while many kids from poorer families feel they cannot afford to have their children study geography or languages, new Guardian reporting shows.
Afghanistan | The Taliban has called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 800 people and left thousands injured.
Israel-Gaza war | A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population.
Politics | Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has been moved to a new senior role in Downing Street as Keir Starmer attempts to get a grip on delivery before what is likely to be a tumultuous autumn for the government.
Health | A three-minute brainwave test can detect memory problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease long before people are typically diagnosed, raising hopes that the approach could help identify those most likely to benefit from new drugs for the condition.
UK news | Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers. Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar.
Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist
A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher, with schools in poorer areas worst affected, analysis has found.
The lack of specialists means more than half (58%) of pupils studying for a science GCSE will have the physics component taught by a teacher who has not studied a physics-related subject beyond the age of 18.