AI - The Stack (Page 10)

healthcare

Black Mirror, irl? We caught up with MAGIC AI's Varun Bhanot

Magic AI CEO Varun Bhanot talks to The Stack about the hardware challenges of tech, safeguarding user data and building something "cool"

Censorship by hallucination? US educators are using AI to find and ban books with sex in them

Among the books pulled from one library are National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom-winner Maya Angelou's autobiography, Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaiden's Tale"

open source

AI, open source and data - the shape of things to come

"In the end, I think we will get something like Wikipedia in the AI space..."

SAP

SAP CEO: Generative AI comes with a "30% premium" - could customise your on-prem deployments

"We sit on data of over 400,000 customers and their material flows, financial flows, employee customer data. We are taking this data… to benchmark and give business process recommendations"

Meta’s Llama 2 AI is free and not just for research -- but it's not open source

It is a generous and permissive licence, but prohibits the use of Llama to “improve any other large language model; excluding Llama 2” and users must request a special commercial licence if their product's MAU exceed 700 million.

Cybersecurity

"WormGPT" gives cybercriminals their own LLM

A dangerous Large Language Model trained on malware data sets is being used to launch BECs.

How developers can build cost-effective AI models

The idea of ‘data-centric AI’, posits that we must focus on data quality over quantity. As our algorithms have progressed, and we have access to incredible open-source LLMs to train our own models, it’s time to focus on how we engineer the data to build cost-efficient models...

MongoDB

MongoDB Atlas gets vector search, streaming and Kubernetes updates

Atlas gets vector search, data streaming capabilities for event-driven applications, a Kubernetes management refresh and more

Meta says its new AI is too dangerous to release - but fingerprinting synthetic speech may support safe deployment

Create a convincing simulacrum of your CEO's voice with just a two-second voice sample. What could go wrong?

DARPA

DARPA selects four private partners for algorithmic analysis of "mass casualty" events

DARPA has announced private partners for its ITM programme that will deploy trustworthy AI to save lives in mass casualty events.

CTO

Tech services firm Persistent is rolling out an AI coding companion to 16,000 engineers. Its CTO recognises the risk

“The legal structure of contracts between a services company and customers simply doesn't allow us to unilaterally activate this kind of tooling. We have to have customer buy-in."

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