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www.rezilion.com www.rezilion.com
 
Report: The Risk of Generative AI and Large Language Models
 
 

Generative AI, like large language models (LLMs), reshape the digital content landscape and push the boundaries of machine creativity. However, the rapid development and market entry of this technology often overlooks security aspects, posing potential risks such as unauthorized access, compromise of sensitive information, and ethical concerns.

 
 
duarteocarmo.com duarteocarmo.com
 
Supercharging my Telegram group with the help of ChatGPT
 
 

Read how a group of friends built two new features for their group chat. One feature is the "/resume" command, which provides a summary of a hectic conversation in the group. The other feature is the "/fake @username <insert question>" command, which allows users to impersonate their friends and ask the bot to answer as if they were that person.

 
 
vulcan.io vulcan.io
 
Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?
 
 

Attackers can exploit ChatGPT's tendency for hallucination to spread malicious packages, taking advantage of developers' reliance on the AI model for coding solutions. The issue arises from ChatGPT's recommendations of non-existent or outdated code libraries, allowing attackers to publish their own malicious packages and deceive users into downloading and using them.

 
 
eng.lyft.com eng.lyft.com
 
Building Real-time Machine Learning Foundations at Lyft
 
 

Lyft had a Machine Learning Platform called LyftLearn, but it lacked support for streaming data in many of its systems. To address this, Lyft initiated the Real-time Machine Learning with Streaming initiative to enable developers to efficiently build and enhance models with streaming data. They identified three capabilities for real-time ML applications: real-time features, real-time learning, and event-driven decisions. By creating a common interface called RealtimeMLPipeline, they simplified integrating streaming into ML models, enabling faster iteration and deployment across development and production environments. The project led to the development of real-time ML use cases and garnered interest from various teams within Lyft. They faced technical challenges related to the complexity of streaming applications and made enhancements to the Flink stack.

 
 
a16z.com a16z.com
 
Why AI Will Save the World
 
 

AI will not destroy the world and, in fact, has the potential to greatly benefit humanity by augmenting human intelligence and improving various aspects of life, from education to healthcare to scientific research. The current panic surrounding AI is driven by a combination of irrational fear and self-interest, with some actors using the panic to push for regulations that serve their own agendas. It is important to objectively evaluate the risks and opportunities of AI rather than succumbing to moral panic.

 
 
pub.towardsai.net pub.towardsai.net
 
Computer Vision and Its Application in Facial Recognition and Object Classification.
 
 

Computer vision is a field that aims to enable computers to understand and interpret visual data like humans do, using techniques such as the Viola-Jones algorithm for face detection and convolutional neural networks for object classification. Recent advancements include state-of-the-art object detection algorithms like YOLO and SSD, as well as facial recognition techniques like FaceNet and ArcFace. Challenges in computer vision include issues related to lighting conditions, occlusion, and pose variation, while potential applications range from surveillance systems to medical imaging and robotics.

 
 
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
 
Inside the AI Factory   ✅
 
 

Annotation boot camps run by companies like Remotasks provide tedious and repetitive work labeling data to train artificial intelligence systems, with tasks ranging from categorizing clothing to identifying objects in images. This work, often hidden and undervalued, forms the infrastructure for AI and requires human input to handle edge cases and ensure accuracy, despite the perception that AI will automate these jobs. The industry, characterized by strict confidentiality, is vast and growing, employing millions of annotators globally, and is essential for the development and maintenance of AI systems.

 
 

 
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www.ciodive.com www.ciodive.com
 
AWS pledges $100M to launch generative AI innovation center
 
 

AWS will invest $100 million to launch the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, aimed at helping customers build and launch generative AI products, services, and processes. The center will connect customers with AWS experts in AI and ML, providing guidance and cost-effective generative AI services for enterprises.

 
 
www.cybersecuritydive.com www.cybersecuritydive.com
 
Rubrik, Microsoft partner to leverage generative AI for faster incident response
 
 

Microsoft and Rubrik will collaborate to enhance incident response using AI and natural language processing, integrating Rubrik Security Cloud with Microsoft Sentinel and Azure OpenAI Service. This partnership addresses the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks and the shortage of skilled security workers, enabling organizations to prioritize alerts, conduct faster investigations, and react to incidents more quickly.

 
 
techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
 
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
 
 

Mechanical Turk, a service allowing users to divide tasks for humans to perform, has been found to have nearly half of its workers using AI models to complete tasks intended for humans. This raises concerns about the reliability of human data and highlights the growing issue of AI training on AI-generated data. The study serves as a warning to platforms, researchers, and workers to ensure the integrity of human input in the face of advancing language models and multimodal models.

 
 
openai.com openai.com
 
GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API
 
 

GPT-4 is GA. GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are generally available, and OpenAI is releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.

 
 
 
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github.com github.com
 
DAMO-NLP-SG/Video-LLaMA
 
 

Video-LLaMA: An Instruction-tuned Audio-Visual Language Model for Video Understanding

 
 
github.com github.com
 
cheshire-cat-ai/core
 
 

Open source and customizable AI architecture

 
 
github.com github.com
 
refuel-ai/autolabel
 
 

Label, clean and enrich text datasets with LLMs. Discord: https://discord.gg/fweVnRx6CU

 
 
github.com github.com
 
morph-labs/rift
 
 

Rift: an AI-native language server for your personal AI software engineer

 
 
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The Apollo 11 guidance computer, which helped land humans on the moon, had less processing power than a modern-day smartphone.

 
 
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Kala #381: Building Real-time Machine Learning Foundations at Lyft
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