Tag: sam

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about calculators, but it is also clear that AI is different. It is already demonstrating general capabilities and performing a wide range of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…

  • Slashdot: As Russia and China ‘Seed Chatbots With Lies’, Any Bad Actor Could Game AI the Same Way

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/1531238/as-russia-and-china-seed-chatbots-with-lies-any-bad-actor-could-game-ai-the-same-way?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: As Russia and China ‘Seed Chatbots With Lies’, Any Bad Actor Could Game AI the Same Way Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how Russia is automating the spread of misinformation to manipulate AI chatbots, potentially serving as a model for other malicious actors.…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-memorystore-for-valkey/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

  • Slashdot: AI Support Bot Invents Nonexistent Policy

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/040257/ai-support-bot-invents-nonexistent-policy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Support Bot Invents Nonexistent Policy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident highlights the risks associated with AI-driven support systems, particularly when misinformation is disseminated as fact. This has implications for user trust and can lead to direct financial impact through subscription cancellations. Detailed Description:…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-27-security-announcements-next-25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25 Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey reviews our top 27 security announcements from Next ‘25.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted…

  • Slashdot: Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/15/182244/google-deepmind-is-hiring-a-post-agi-research-scientist?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how major AI research firms, particularly Google and its DeepMind division, are preparing for a future beyond achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Despite the current lack of evidence supporting imminent…

  • Cloud Blog: AI and BI converge: A deep dive into Gemini in Looker

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/gemini-in-looker-deep-dive/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI and BI converge: A deep dive into Gemini in Looker Feedly Summary: Driven by generative AI innovations, the Business Intelligence (BI) landscape is undergoing significant transformation, as businesses look to bring data insights to their organization in new and intuitive ways, lowering traditional barriers that have often…

  • Schneier on Security: Slopsquatting

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/slopsquatting.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with malware, of course. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security concern in the intersection of AI and…