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Keep LLM's local

A lot of the use cases for LLMs I’ve heard from people is along the lines of “Help me get started on this document, presentation, report or speech” or “Summarise this document”. Which are pretty simple requests, but it’s when people send data with no thought…that’s

Delicious research

Zitron writes, how I’d like to write. But what I really like about him - is he does the research. Opinions, arguments and critical thinking are so much more powerful if you’ve done the work (I think). Even Google had to respond to one of his pieces. Much

Go beyond the sales pitch

This is not going to be too technical. Hopefully. I’m already seeing a lot of posts and news articles about OpenAI releasing ChatGPT-4o. All very frothy. I get suspicious when articles start quoting what it could do in the future as much as what it can do now. If

Data centres need a lot of power

Hmm. So this is interesting reading as I was mulling this over earlier this week The answer to AI’s energy needs could be blowing in the windCan offshore wind farms feed power-hungry AI data centers?The Verge AI needs a lot of power so we use wind farms…simple.

Leadership by example

This is happening more and more. It also reads as pretty lo-fi, as in just AI voice cloning being used - it’s cloned video as well for others. I doubt there will be published stories when it’s successful. CEO of world’s biggest ad firm targeted by deepfake

AI and Bias

A good few years ago I put a job description I’d wrote through a tool to analyse the gender bias in the words and narrative. One of the guys in HR suggested it as he’d been using it. I can never remember the name of the tool, but

LLM's and vulnerabilities

So the latest LLMs are better at exploiting one-day vulnerabilities according to a study. Much better at exploiting than finding. 87% success rate if the CVE has a description. That drops to 7% if there is no description. GPT-4 nutzte 87 Prozent bereitgestellter One-Day-Vulnerabilities ausEine neue Studie zeigt auf, dass

People and process

When you’re having very exciting discussions about integrating AI into your business, do make sure you’re looking at the risk elements to your business (people and process) with as much energy. Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gunBaltimore County Police charged Dazhon

Earth Day 2024

It was Earth Day yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it (Greenwashing). I’ve posted about the power consumption needs of Big Tech and the ‘next big thing’ but finally found an article on the water impact, which has gone under the radar somewhat. The Secret Water Footprint of AI