Tag: AI models

  • Hacker News: Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default

    Source URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-word-and-excel-ai-data-scraping-slyly-switched-to-opt-in-by-default-the-opt-out-toggle-is-not-that-easy-to-find Source: Hacker News Title: Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Microsoft’s Connected Experiences feature in Office applications, which collects user-generated content to train AI models by default, raising significant concerns around privacy and…

  • Wired: How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-do-you-get-to-artificial-general-intelligence-think-lighter/ Source: Wired Title: How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter Feedly Summary: Billions of dollars in hardware and exorbitant use costs are squashing AI innovation. LLMs need to get leaner and cheaper if progress is to be made. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the anticipated…

  • Wired: We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-new-right-to-repair-for-artificial-intelligence/ Source: Wired Title: We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence Feedly Summary: A growing movement to allow access to algorithmic workings won’t stop the ubiquitous spread of artificial intelligence, but it could restore public confidence in it. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights increasing public resistance…

  • Slashdot: Senator Introduces Bill To Compel More Transparency From AI Developers

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/0047249/senator-introduces-bill-to-compel-more-transparency-from-ai-developers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Senator Introduces Bill To Compel More Transparency From AI Developers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of the TRAIN Act, aimed at enhancing the rights of human creators regarding the use of their work in training AI models, highlights a significant step towards accountability in…

  • Slashdot: AI’s Future and Nvidia’s Fortunes Ride on the Race To Pack More Chips Into One Place

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/25/1254207/ais-future-and-nvidias-fortunes-ride-on-the-race-to-pack-more-chips-into-one-place?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI’s Future and Nvidia’s Fortunes Ride on the Race To Pack More Chips Into One Place Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights substantial investments by major technology firms in AI capabilities through the creation of large-scale computing infrastructures known as “super clusters.” This trend…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: Often, you are told to do this by treating AI like an intern. In retrospect, however, I think that this particular analogy ends up making people use AI in very constrained ways. To put it bluntly, any recent frontier model (by which…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: open-interpreter

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/open-interpreter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: open-interpreter Feedly Summary: open-interpreter This “natural language interface for computers" project has been around for a while, but today I finally got around to trying it out. Here’s how I ran it (without first installing anything) using uv: uvx –from open-interpreter interpreter The default mode asks you…

  • Hacker News: Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit

    Source URL: https://github.com/huggingface/smollm Source: Hacker News Title: Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces SmolLM2, a family of compact language models with varying parameters designed for lightweight, on-device applications, and details on how they can be utilized in different scenarios. Such advancements in AI…

  • The Register: We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build AI agents that respond like real people

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/24/ai_based_on_people/ Source: The Register Title: We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build AI agents that respond like real people Feedly Summary: Oh, oobee doo, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too Computer scientists have devised a technique for making AI models behave like specific people.… AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast Feedly Summary: These past few weeks I’ve been bringing Datasette and LLM together and distracting myself with a new sort-of-podcast crossed with a live streaming experiment. Project: interviewing people about their projects Datasette Public Office…