Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
LinkedIn ↗Companies like OpenAI and Meta say their models don’t collect personal data but their AI is really good at inferring personal information from your chats or…
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Researchers from Stanford, MIT, and Princeton created an index to benchmark the transparency of AI companies and their models. The results weren’t great. The Foundation Model…
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Former Fugees member Pras Michél claims his recent conviction was due to a sub-standard closing argument that his lawyer drafted using AI. When Michél was charged…
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Nvidia and Foxconn announced that they will cooperate in building ‘AI factories’ to accelerate the manufacture of autonomous electric vehicles. Foxconn is one of the world’s…
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Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, says regulation of AI is essential to prevent a financial crisis. In an interview with…
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Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled an upgraded version of its Ernie Bot chatbot at the Baidu World 2023 conference in Beijing. Baidu CEO Robin Li claimed…
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Using low-resource languages (LRL) like Zulu or Scots Gaelic can elicit unsafe responses from GPT-4 despite its alignment guardrails. Researchers from Brown University found that you…
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Adobe offered a preview of experimental generative AI tools for editing video and audio at its Adobe Max conference. Adobe uses its “Sneaks” presentations to showcase…
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Welcome to another edition of the AI news roundup that will inevitably win a Pulitzer. We’re still patiently waiting for their call. This week AI climbed…
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Commercial LLMs like GPT-3.5 and OpenAI have guardrails to make sure the models are aligned and don’t generate dangerous responses. Simply fine-tuning the model could bypass…
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