Tag: Generative AI

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B Feedly Summary: DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning" model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole…

  • Slashdot: The Pentagon Says AI is Speeding Up Its ‘Kill Chain’

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/20/1411247/the-pentagon-says-ai-is-speeding-up-its-kill-chain Source: Slashdot Title: The Pentagon Says AI is Speeding Up Its ‘Kill Chain’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the relationship between leading AI developers and the U.S. military, highlighting the use of AI for enhancing defense capabilities while maintaining strict ethical boundaries. This interaction emphasizes the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek API Docs: Rate Limit

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/18/deepseek-api-docs-rate-limit/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek API Docs: Rate Limit Feedly Summary: DeepSeek API Docs: Rate Limit This is surprising: DeepSeek offer the only hosted LLM API I’ve seen that doesn’t implement rate limits: DeepSeek API does NOT constrain user’s rate limit. We will try out best to serve every request. However,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/18/lessons-from-red-teaming/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products Feedly Summary: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products New paper from Microsoft describing their top eight lessons learned red teaming (deliberately seeking security vulnerabilities in) 100 different generative AI models and products over the past few years.…

  • Hacker News: Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/under-new-law-cops-bust-famous-cartoonist-for-ai-generated-child-sex-abuse-images/ Source: Hacker News Title: Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses California’s recently enacted law targeting AI-generated child sex abuse material (CSAM), emphasizing the unique risks associated with AI in this context and the implications for child…

  • METR updates – METR: Comment on NIST RMF GenAI Companion

    Source URL: https://downloads.regulations.gov/NIST-2024-0001-0075/attachment_2.pdf Source: METR updates – METR Title: Comment on NIST RMF GenAI Companion Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The provided text discusses the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework concerning Generative AI. It outlines significant risks posed by autonomous AI systems and suggests enhancements to…

  • The Register: Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond’s own products

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/microsoft_ai_redteam_infosec_warning/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond’s own products Feedly Summary: If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever Microsoft brainiacs who probed the security of more than 100 of the software giant’s own…

  • Slashdot: Apple Pulls AI-Generated Notifications For News After Generating Fake Headlines

    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/01/16/2213202/apple-pulls-ai-generated-notifications-for-news-after-generating-fake-headlines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Pulls AI-Generated Notifications For News After Generating Fake Headlines Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s decision to temporarily disable its AI-driven news summary feature highlights the critical challenge of ensuring accuracy and reliability in generative AI technologies. This incident underscores the importance of robust AI…

  • Chip Huyen: Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications

    Source URL: https://huyenchip.com//2025/01/16/ai-engineering-pitfalls.html Source: Chip Huyen Title: Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications Feedly Summary: As we’re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it’s normal to make mistakes. This is a quick note with examples of some of the most common pitfalls that I’ve seen, both from public case…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting gwern

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/gwern/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting gwern Feedly Summary: […] much of the point of a model like o1 is not to deploy it, but to generate training data for the next model. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session…