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I saw “The Odyssey” during its opening weekend. Ever since then, I have been questioning whether I’m illiterate or whether Christopher Nolan is a poor storyteller. This London Review of Books evaluation of the film, written by the woman whose translation of “The Odyssey” Nolan apparently read, has freed me from my wondering. (h/t to my colleague Matthew Herper)
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Benchmark battle bots
You might recall that in mid-June, there was a Nature Medicine study that pitted clinical AI systems OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI against general LLMs. It set off a reaction in the clinical AI world like no other paper has. “The results rang out like a gunshot,” as STAT health tech correspondent Katie Palmer describes it.
