Tag: Research and Development

  • The Cloudflare Blog: How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification

    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/topaz-policy-engine-design Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification Feedly Summary: We describe how Cloudflare uses a custom Lisp-like programming language and formal verifier (written in Racket and Rosette) to prevent logical contradictions in our authoritative DNS nameserver’s behavior. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Hacker News: Palantir Secures $99M Army Contract for User-Centered ML

    Source URL: https://executivegov.com/2024/09/palantir-army-contract-user-centered-ml/ Source: Hacker News Title: Palantir Secures $99M Army Contract for User-Centered ML Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Palantir Technologies has secured a significant $99.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to advance user-centered machine learning (UCML). This initiative highlights the increasing integration of AI and ML in military…

  • Schneier on Security: Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/prompt-injection-defenses-against-llm-cyberattacks.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks Feedly Summary: Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being harnessed to automate cyberattacks, making sophisticated exploits more accessible and scalable. In response, we propose a new defense…

  • Hacker News: WebRL: Training LLM Web Agents via Self-Evolving Online Reinforcement Learning

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02337 Source: Hacker News Title: WebRL: Training LLM Web Agents via Self-Evolving Online Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper introduces WebRL, a novel framework that employs self-evolving online curriculum reinforcement learning to enhance the training of large language models (LLMs) as web agents. This development is…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Nous Hermes 3

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/4/nous-hermes-3/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Nous Hermes 3 Feedly Summary: Nous Hermes 3 The Nous Hermes family of fine-tuned models have a solid reputation. Their most recent release came out in August, based on Meta’s Llama 3.1: Our training data aggressively encourages the model to follow the system and instruction prompts exactly…

  • Hacker News: Prompts are Programs

    Source URL: https://blog.sigplan.org/2024/10/22/prompts-are-programs/ Source: Hacker News Title: Prompts are Programs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the parallels between AI model prompts and traditional software programs, emphasizing the need for programming language and software engineering communities to adapt and create new research avenues. As ChatGPT and similar large language…

  • Hacker News: Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer

    Source URL: https://oasis-model.github.io/ Source: Hacker News Title: Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces Oasis, a groundbreaking real-time, open-world AI model designed for video gaming, which generates gameplay entirely through AI. This innovative model leverages fast transformer inference to create an interactive gaming experience…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: W̶e̶e̶k̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ Monthnotes for October

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/30/monthnotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: W̶e̶e̶k̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ Monthnotes for October Feedly Summary: I try to publish weeknotes at least once every two weeks. It’s been four since the last entry, so I guess this one counts as monthnotes instead. In my defense, the reason I’ve fallen behind on weeknotes is that I’ve been…

  • METR Blog – METR: Details about METR’s preliminary evaluation of OpenAI o1-preview

    Source URL: https://metr.github.io/autonomy-evals-guide/openai-o1-preview-report/ Source: METR Blog – METR Title: Details about METR’s preliminary evaluation of OpenAI o1-preview Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a detailed evaluation of OpenAI’s models, o1-mini and o1-preview, focusing on their autonomous capabilities and performance on AI-related research and development tasks. The results suggest notable potential,…

  • Hacker News: Zamba2-7B

    Source URL: https://www.zyphra.com/post/zamba2-7b Source: Hacker News Title: Zamba2-7B Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes the architecture and capabilities of Zamba2-7B, an advanced AI model that utilizes a hybrid SSM-attention architecture, aiming for enhanced inference efficiency and performance. Its open-source release invites collaboration within the AI community, potentially impacting research…