Tag: Mila

  • Cloud Blog: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-innovations-in-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation Feedly Summary: Spanner is Google’s always-on, virtually unlimited database that powers planet-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Outside of Google, Spanner powers demanding workloads for household brands like Yahoo!, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and Pokémon Go. Today, Spanner handles…

  • Wired: Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness/ Source: Wired Title: Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness Feedly Summary: The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rise and subsequent disillusionment with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: December in LLMs has been a lot

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: December in LLMs has been a lot Feedly Summary: I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in January. Instead, I’ve found myself distracted by a constant barrage…

  • Slashdot: Google Releases Its Own ‘Reasoning’ AI Model

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/19/2235220/google-releases-its-own-reasoning-ai-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Releases Its Own ‘Reasoning’ AI Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of Google’s new AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, which is designed for multimodal understanding and reasoning. It highlights the model’s ability to self-fact-check and improve accuracy, although…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/19/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-12356 BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious…

  • Hacker News: Lightweight Safety Classification Using Pruned Language Models

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13435 Source: Hacker News Title: Lightweight Safety Classification Using Pruned Language Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper presents an innovative technique called Layer Enhanced Classification (LEC) for enhancing content safety and prompt injection classification in Large Language Models (LLMs). It highlights the effectiveness of using smaller, pruned…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/q-and-qv-zsh-functions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM Feedly Summary: q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM Spotted these in David Gasquez’s zshrc dotfiles: two shell functions that use my LLM tool…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects Feedly Summary: I’ve written a lot about how I’ve been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications via Claude Artifacts. I recently started using a similar pattern to create one-shot Python utilities, using a…

  • Hacker News: GitHub Copilot Free Plan

    Source URL: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans Source: Hacker News Title: GitHub Copilot Free Plan Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the copyright considerations related to GitHub Copilot, particularly how its AI model is trained on publicly accessible code. It highlights the implications of copyright law in various jurisdictions regarding the use of…