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Google DeepMind’s latest medical breakthrough borrows a trick from AI image generators

Much of the recent AI hype train has centered around mesmerizing digital content generated from simple prompts, alongside concerns about its ability to decimate the workforce and make malicious propaganda much more convincing. (Fun!) However, some of AI’s most promising … Continue reading

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ChatGPT Plus can exploit zero-day security vulnerabilities — why this should concern you

GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest multimodal large language model (LLM), can exploit zero-day vulnerabilities independently, according to a study reported by TechSpot. The study by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers has shown that LLMs, including GPT-4, can execute attacks on systems by … Continue reading

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28 of the best MIT courses you can take online for free

TL;DR: A wide range of online courses from MIT are available for free on edX. You can find a wide range of free online courses from some of the most famous educational institutions in the world on edX. It’s a … Continue reading

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IT Leaders Can’t Stop AI and Deepfake Scams as They Top the List of Most Frequent Attacks

New data shows that the attacks IT feels most inadequate to stop are the ones they’re experiencing the most. According to Keeper Security’s latest report, The Future of Defense: IT Leaders Brace for Unprecedented Cyber Threats, the most serious emerging types … Continue reading

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Transforming CI/CD Pipelines for AI-Assisted Coding: Strategies and Best Practices

Asking ChatGPT to generate one-off code snippets or churning out boilerplate code with help from Copilot is one way to get started with AI in software development. But if you want to adopt AI-assisted coding systematically and at scale, you … Continue reading

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A Long-Range Meshtastic Relay

In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of low-power mesh networking devices for everything from IoT devices, weather stations, and even off-grid communications networks. These radio modules are largely exempt from licensing requirements due to their low power … Continue reading

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OpenAI Clearly Nervous About Its New Voice Cloning Tool Being Used for Scams

OpenAI announced a new AI-based audio cloning tool called Voice Engine on Friday. While the company is obviously proud of the potential of this technology—touting how it could be used to provide reading assistance for kids and give a voice … Continue reading

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Visualizing the statistical connections behind ChatGPT

To gain a better understanding of how ChatGPT works under the hood, Santiago Ortiz repeatedly passed the prompt “Intelligence is” to the chatbot. Then he visualized the statistical paths to get to a response using a 3-D network. If you … Continue reading

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Learn AI via Spreadsheet

While we’ve been known to use and abuse spreadsheets in the past, we haven’t taken it to the level of [Spreadsheets Are All You Need]. The site provides a spreadsheet version of an “AI” system much like ChatGPT 2. Sure, … Continue reading

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ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots

Enlarge / Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker. Getty Images Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language … Continue reading

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