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mpesce, 1 day ago to random

A developer on Twitter has taken the discussion a step further by revealing that one of the flagship new features, Recall, doesn't require the presence of a powerful NPU after all.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/28/windows-11-copilot-ai-features-like-recall-can-be-enabled-without-an-npu/

mpesce, 1 day ago to random

Even at this early stage, though, Anthropic's research provides an exciting framework for making an LLM's "black box" results that much more interpretable and, potentially, controllable.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/28/heres-whats-really-going-on-inside-an-llms-neural-network/

mpesce, 1 day ago to random

This blog would never recommend using a prompt injection against a recruiter.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/28/tip-how-to-work-with-recruiters-using-ai-to-filter-resumes-comedy/

mpesce, 1 day ago to random

"Google and the other companies chasing this AI fantasy are desperate to have us see these systems as a life-changing leap forward, but it’s critically important for us to remain aware of the very real minuses that come with this latest shiny plus."

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/28/gemini-is-the-new-google/

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

Another thing to consider: Sergey Brin came back from retirement to help oversee Google's AI work.

Which means a lot of this lands on him, and on Pichai, and on the board.

Who all seem to have no actual idea what they're doing.

An organisation worth two trillion dollars.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/18/23837372/command-line-google-co-founder-sergey-brin-ai

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

FTC Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday that companies that train their artificial intelligence (A) models on data from news websites, artists’ creations or people’s personal information could be in violation of antitrust laws.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/27/ftc-chair-ai-models-could-violate-antitrust-laws/

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

It's actually pretty nice, showing only the traditional 10 blue links, giving you a clean (well, other than the ads), uncluttered results page that looks like it's from 2011.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/27/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

"...I'd stumbled onto something bigger than a bug. Models from different providers use differing training datasets, machine learning algorithms, hardware, and so on. While they may all seem quite similar when dressed up with a chatbot front-end, each uniquely reflects the talents and resources used to create them. Finding something that affects all of them points away from the weakness of a single implementation, toward something more fundamental: A flaw..."

@theregister https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ai_untested_unstable/

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

Just submitted my topics for this week's RNZ NineToNoon segment (Thursday 9am AEST) and dear god, you could not make these up: The 'LLM Kryptonite' bug I found and tried to report; Microsoft's 'Totalled Recall', and Google telling everyone to eat rocks.

Charlie Brooker, thou art avenged!

mpesce, 3 days ago to random

this whole AI-in-the-search-results thingy feels like such an unforced error one wonders how it made it through all the processes intended to protect their crown jewels?

perhaps those processes don't exist? or were ignored in panic?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

mpesce, 4 days ago to random

in other news, it certainly seems clear that Google has made the decision to pivot from search to light entertainment

mpesce, 4 days ago to random

"Social media companies that conduct business in a jurisdiction are subject to the laws of that jurisdiction."

That's the law, at least in Queensland, and quite possibly all of Australia, given what I've just heard on ABC News.

mpesce, 5 days ago to random

Now it can be told:

While doing some AI engineering work for a client, I developed a prompt - completely inadvertently - that reduced every AI chatbot to gibberish (except Anthropic's Claude 3). I then spent a week trying to alert the LLM vendors to this issue - and largely failed. There is no mechanism to report flaws in these models that are already deployed to billions of users. Read the whole story in @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ai_untested_unstable/

mpesce, 5 days ago to random

A month ago I accidentally coded up a prompt that seems to break all of the AI chatbots, except Anthropic's Claude. I tried to report it to the various vendors - only to learn there's no mechanism to report these kinds of flaws...

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/24/i-stumbled-upon-llm-kryptonite-and-no-one-wants-to-fix-this-model-breaking-bug/

mpesce, 6 days ago to random

An NDA forbids former OpenAI employees, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/23/chatgpt-can-talk-but-openai-employees-sure-cant/

mpesce, 6 days ago to random

By default, and without requiring users to opt-in, Slack said its systems have been analyzing customer data and usage information (including messages, content and files) to build AI/ML models to improve the software.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/23/user-outcry-as-slack-scrapes-customer-data-for-ai-model-training/

mpesce, 7 days ago to random

We don't need a computer that remembers.

We need more computers that forget.

mpesce, 7 days ago to random

Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89
Bell architected DEC's VAX minicomputers, championed computer history, mentored at Microsoft.

Vale

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

mpesce, 8 days ago to random

Microsoft: Totaled Recall.

mpesce, 8 days ago to random

"Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds," Microsoft says on its website.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/21/new-windows-ai-feature-records-everything-youve-done-on-your-pc/

arstechnica, 8 days ago to random

Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mpesce, 10 days ago to random

That sense I had from November 2023 that OpenAI was a cult functioning as a technology startup?

It's been reinforced in spades.

Read this (currently #1 on Hacker News)

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release

mpesce, 11 days ago to random

Vale Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/robert-dennard-dead.html