The executive order that President Biden signed in October tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with researching how to test and analyze AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
A Chevrolet dealership in Watsonville, California has had to take its sales chatbot down after it was tricked into offering buyers steep discounts. Some entertaining interactions…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
French AI startup Mistral released its open-source Mixture of Experts model Mixtral 8x7B last week. An AI researcher released a version of the model with its…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
OpenAI has recently disclosed that its board has the authority to override decisions made by the CEO regarding the release of new AI models, even if…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Current AI models are capable of doing a lot of unsafe or undesirable things. Human supervision and feedback keep these models aligned but what will happen…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
For the first time, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), a body overseeing the stability of the US financial system, has flagged AI as a significant…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Lasso Security exposed security vulnerabilities on HuggingFace and GitHub after finding 1681 exposed API tokens hardcoded into code stored on the platforms. HuggingFace and GitHub are…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Researchers from Google Deep Mind and several universities found that LLMs can be made to expose their training data by using a simple trick. There is…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
As AI technologies become widely deployed, they also become targets for cybercriminals. Cyber security agencies from the UK and US developed new guidelines on how to…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
The decision to fire Sam Altam may have been influenced by the effective altruistic ideals shared by OpenAI’s board members. Interim CEO Emmett Shear shares some…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
