Tag: skepticism

  • Slashdot: Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/12/10/2334221/open-source-maintainers-are-drowning-in-junk-bug-reports-written-by-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The report highlights the rising prevalence of low-quality security vulnerability submissions generated by AI models in open-source projects, which poses significant challenges for developers. Seth Larson from the Python…

  • The Register: Reddit rolls out AI-powered ‘Answers’ search feature, redditors don’t rejoice

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/reddit_ai_answers_search_feature/ Source: The Register Title: Reddit rolls out AI-powered ‘Answers’ search feature, redditors don’t rejoice Feedly Summary: Many users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority Reddit’s internal search engine is often criticized as one of the site’s weakest features but the platform claims AI integration will…

  • Hacker News: The GPT era is already ending

    Source URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/openai-o1-reasoning-models/680906/ Source: Hacker News Title: The GPT era is already ending Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has launched the o1 generative AI model, hailed by its CEO as a significant advancement towards mimicking human reasoning, which is set to redefine AI capabilities. This model is perceived as a…

  • Hacker News: Unlocking the Power of DynamoDB: A Developer’s Journey

    Source URL: https://endlessqueue.com/posts/3/ Source: Hacker News Title: Unlocking the Power of DynamoDB: A Developer’s Journey Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the evolution of the author’s perception toward serverless architecture and NoSQL databases, particularly AWS’s DynamoDB, in the context of developing a health data product. It highlights the importance…

  • Schneier on Security: AI and the 2024 Elections

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/ai-and-the-2024-elections.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI and the 2024 Elections Feedly Summary: It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many…

  • The Register: Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/03/biden_hbm_china_export_ban/ Source: The Register Title: Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators Feedly Summary: 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist The Biden administration has announced restrictions limiting the export of memory critical to the production of AI accelerators and banning sales to more than a…

  • Hacker News: NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I

    Source URL: https://github.com/barnoid/AIAI2 Source: Hacker News Title: NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the creative process of generating a novelization of the film “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” using AI tools, particularly emphasizing the use of a local instance of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: 0xfreysa/agent

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/29/0xfreysaagent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: 0xfreysa/agent Feedly Summary: 0xfreysa/agent Freysa describes itself as “the world’s first adversarial agent game". On 22nd November they released an LLM-driven application which people could pay to message (using Ethereum), with access to tools that could transfer a prize pool to the message sender, ending the game.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrej Karpathy

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/29/andrej-karpathy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrej Karpathy Feedly Summary: People have too inflated sense of what it means to “ask an AI" about something. The AI are language models trained basically by imitation on data from human labelers. Instead of the mysticism of "asking an AI", think of it more as…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM Flowbreaking

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/29/llm-flowbreaking/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM Flowbreaking Feedly Summary: LLM Flowbreaking Gadi Evron from Knostic: We propose that LLM Flowbreaking, following jailbreaking and prompt injection, joins as the third on the growing list of LLM attack types. Flowbreaking is less about whether prompt or response guardrails can be bypassed, and more about…