“Get it the **** off my system” and “in the trash where it belongs” were common refrains as users voiced their displeasure at having Copilot forced upon them. Numerous reports emerged of people immediately disabling, hiding, or removing the AI assistant.
Researchers found that with some spare cash and enough technical know-how, even a "low-resourced attacker" can tamper with a relatively small amount of data that's invasive enough to cause a large language model to churn out incorrect answers.
An International Monetary Fund study recently predicted that AI was poised to impact 60 per cent of all jobs in advanced economies like ours, with about half of those to benefit from AI increasing productivity and the other half to be adversely impacted.
For the life of me I do not understand why @dangoodin's reporting on Microsoft's serious and continued security issues are not top of the page on every business news site in the world. This is the world's _most_ valuable company. And it's really not succeeding at defending itself against this Russian attack. Why isn't Nadella being dragged in the media _every day_ until this is fully resolved? 🤷🏻♂️
Gemini 1.5 promises to be faster and more efficient thanks to a specialization technique called "mixture of experts," also known as MoE. Instead of running the entire model every time it receives a query, Gemini's MoE can use just the relevant parts...
Starting today, when you point your camera (or upload a photo or screenshot) and ask a question using the Google app, the new multisearch experience will show results with AI-powered insights that go beyond just visual matches.
"In 21st century neuroscience, many of us like to think memories are being stored in engram cells, or their sub-components. This study argues that rather than looking for information within or at cells, we should search for information between cells, and that learning may work by altering the wiring diagram of the brain -- less like a computer and more like a developing sculpture.
"In other words, the engram is not in the cell; the cell is in the engram."
It's becoming increasingly important to be able to distinguish between real images and 'deepfakes' - synthetic images generated by AI. Providers have strategies to 'watermark' these synthetic images, but researchers have already found ways around this.
Microsoft's data centers in West Des Moines, Iowa guzzled massive amounts of water last year, the Associated Press reported earlier this month, to keep cool while training OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, the Microsoft-backed company's most advanced AI chatbot.
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