TL;DR Oligo’s research team recently uncovered 6 vulnerabilities in Ollama, one of the leading open-source frameworks for running AI models. Four of the flaws received CVEs and were patched in a recen
TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project 21 October 2024 João da SilvaBusiness reporter Getty Images The firm said its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models,
The generative AI hype cycle has been revelatory for many reasons. The tech industry’s dependence on boom and bust cycles to drive investment based on inflated promises was put on full display. Some o
Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say A
I was talking with a coworker the other day about one of the new AI offerings and how well it simulated human interaction. I was asking it to summarize some notes I had taken on a book, and it did a f
OpenAI is reportedly pushing ahead with plans to become a for-profit company, as more senior figures left the ChatGPT developer after the surprise exit of its chief technology officer, Mira Murati. Th
As a CISO, I always struggled to figure out what products are worthy of my team’s time. There is so much noise, and so many inflated claims. If, like me, you walked through the BlackHat Business Hall,
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) declared condemnation of AI “classist and ableist,” and participants in its annual writing challenge are pissed. In a Zendesk post p
Privacy Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable Natasha Lomas 3:02 AM PDT • September 3, 2024 Image Credits: Sean Zanni/Patrick McM
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014
By Artem Dinaburg Today we’re going to provision some cloud infrastructure the Max Power way: by combining automation with unchecked AI output. Unfortunately, this method produces cloud infrastructure
Yesterday, my dumb Twitter post unexpectedly went viral. Some of the commenters read too much into it and pixel-peeped the attached photos — but what struck me was that some of their zoomed-in crops w
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An artist's impression of a robot doctor wearing a lab coat. (Image credit: Marko Aliksandr via Shutterstock) ChatGPT's medical diagnoses are accurate less than half of the time, a new study reveals.
"When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions." Trough Luck Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product
Researchers write, "In this image, the person on the left (Scarlett Johansson) is real, while the person on the right is AI-generated. Their eyeballs are depicted underneath their faces. The reflectio
IT consultant Mark Pesce was building an LLM-based similarity finder for a legal client. He discovered a prompt that reliably caused multiple LLMs to go nuts and output complete gibberish: “it descend
AI needs a security framework and applied standards that can keep pace with its rapid growth. That’s why last year we shared the Secure AI Framework (SAIF), knowing that it was just the first step. Of
I am delighted to introduce XBOW , which brings AI to offensive security, augmenting the productivity of pentesters, bug hunters and security researchers. XBOW is the first AI product that autonomousl
Dr Ruth Clemens Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Inte
A squad of soldiers is under attack and pinned down by rockets in the close quarters of urban combat. One of them makes a call over his radio, and within moments a fleet of small autonomous drones equ
OpenAI whistleblowers have urged the US financial watchdog to investigate non-disclosure agreements at the startup after claiming the contracts included restrictions such as requiring employees to see
The researchers' approach involves two main innovations: first, they created a custom LLM and constrained it to use only ternary values (-1, 0, 1) instead of traditional floating-point numbers, which
Microsoft is already being investigated by the FTC for its deal with Inflection AI in March. Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance (Getty Images) The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has
Big tech has succeeded in distracting the world from the existential risk to humanity that artificial intelligence still poses, a leading scientist and AI campaigner has warned. Speaking with the Guar
These two links deserved highlighting beyond just being plonked into my normal list of links. They are both describing some of the chaos caused by the ongoing AI Bubble. One tackles what it’s doing to
When OpenAI announced its latest ChatGPT last week, the AI voice it used in its demo was quickly compared to Scarlett Johansson's voice in the 2013 sci-fi film "Her," but now the company says it is pu
A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries. Onyx Industries The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (
Developing responsible AI isn’t a straightforward proposition. On one side, organizations are striving to stay at the forefront of technological advancement. On the other hand, they must ensure strict
Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations. Not only does AI a
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring whether users should be allowed to create artificial intelligence-generated pornography and other explicit content with its products. While the company
Over the last few months, many have proposed that the AI spam taking over Facebook is a great example of the “Dead Internet Theory,” which posits that large portions of the internet are made up of bot
Analysis Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appear
A crack has appeared in OpenAI's facade of calm. Inspector Gadget After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public. As The I
A while back on this blog, I expressed a somewhat unpopular sentiment about large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT or Google Bard: “The technology feels magical and disruptive, but we felt the s
Eternal sunshine of the spotless LLM Making an LLM forget is harder than it seems In a recent paper, Ronen Eldan and Mark Russinovich wrote: “We effectively erase the model's ability to generate or re
This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘Microphobia’, published in 1982. It’s full of great jokes and I could have used almost any of them, because they’re all making the same point -
See a longer version of this article here: Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges. Sometimes the best explanations of how a technology solution works come from the software engineers
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