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Good Interview to listen to

Meredith Whittaker Is always interesting to listen to. Worthwhile bookmarking this for your next coffee. Interview Of The Week: Meredith Whittaker, AI Ethics Expert - The InnovatorAI Ethics expert Meredith Whittaker talks about whether it is possible to have it All: Safe, Profitable, and Ethical AI?”The InnovatorJennifer L. Schenker

Which bits?

Many years ago, as a Postgraduate, I was studying Marine Science. One of the things we had to learn was how to take water quality tests. BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and working out dissolved oxygen. Ugh I remember it was at least four pages of written calculus and you ended

Not a surprise

This is not surprising or even news. People have been having a lot of fun bypassing for a while, and prompt injection is a real thing AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchersFive systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responsesThe

Smoke and mirrors

You may hear the term AGI. It stands for Artificial General Intelligence and its basically AI that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of tasks. Like any computer in a sci-fi movie. I put it in the same category as cold fusion, every crypto project (ever) and

Slack happy to use your data

With MS Teams or Google Chat pretty much bundled, I was always a bit frustrated at the desire to use Slack. Development teams love it. But from a cost perspective? Why am I paying for two chat apps? Hey someone has to look after the budget. Anyway, Slack considers customer

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