AI “Scant evidence” – Google’s AI chemistry claims were very misleading AI discovered 2.2m new "materials" said DeepMind. Chemistry professors investigated, found hallucinations, repetition, known crystals.
DataStax DataStax snaps up Langchain-democratiser Langflow "You have to chain user input, system prompts, and DB data to feed the LLM and then lots of processing to deliver that magic AI agent experience to the user"
LLMs Databricks releases most powerful open LLM yet Inference “up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B” for new model, trained on 12 trillion tokens.
AI Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" - targets biometrics, bias, black boxes Emotion recognition banned in workplaces, classrooms.
Opinion The key to making Large Language Models work is becoming clearer. "GenAI with too low a temperature lacks creative spark... Too high a temperature and it will strongly hallucinate" -- Neo4j’s Jim Webber discusses new ways of delivering GenAI value.
AI Researchers go back to the 80s to jailbreak LLMs :-) Generative AI models can be fooled using ASCII art, while "rainbow teaming" pushes LLM semantic defenses to limit...
Members only LLMs PDFs, RAG, and LlamaParse: Generative AI's "Swiss Army Knife" adds a welcome new toolkit "Building production-grade RAG remains a complex and subtle problem... unlike traditional software, every decision in the data stack directly affects the accuracy of the full LLM-powered system."
OpenAI’s “Sora” lets you create video from text: Be awed, be worried. Company says it is releasing examples "to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon" as one expert, NVIDIA's Dr Jim Fan emphasised that "if you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE... think again"
AI Google’s massively multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro preview shows a giant warming to its task "Coming soon, we plan to introduce pricing tiers that start at the standard 128,000 context window and scale up to 1 million tokens"
Members only AI Red RAG to a Bull? Generative AI, data security, and toolchain maturity. An ecosystem evolves... "Here's where people end up in RAG hell, with a bunch of unfamiliar tools and in many cases immature tools...”
LLMs Llama 3 is in training – as Meta vows to add another 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to its infrastructure this year Goldman Sachs CIO says "there’s a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer. I think we will see that shift happening..."
Sponsored The Future of AI: From the world’s "most powerful cat" to transformative enterprise apps "Builders are creatives, if you unlock their creative power; empower them to compose with API services, new architectures… infinite possibilities emerge."
bug bounty Hallucinated vulnerability disclosure for Curl generates disgust But Bug Bounty platform HackerOne isn't too worried that LLM-generated bug reports will become a deluge...
AI AI predictions for 2024? "No serious user-facing product will display GPT-4-generated output given its legal issues that will continue and become even more serious throughout 2024; new architectures competing with Transformer, such as Mamba, will appear..."
Amazon AWS launches AI assistant “Amazon Q”, offers fine tuning for models on Bedrock "Administrators can also configure allowed topics and blocked topics and words so that the responses are controlled. In addition, administrators can enable or disable the upload file feature for their end users..."
OpenAI OpenAI abruptly fires CEO Sam Altman -- days after Microsoft briefly blocked access to ChatGPT over "security and data" concerns Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
OpenAI OpenAI unveils new models, capabilities OpenAI has pushed out a flurry of updates at its first developer conference – including the release of its new GPT-4 Turbo which can fit the “equivalent of more than 300 pages of text in a single prompt” – and the ability to train and run LLMs powered by proprietary datasets. Calling
AI EU investors including Bosch, SAP pump $500 million into "sovereign" AI firm Aleph Alpha The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
OpenAI A bootleg API, AI’s RAM needs, cat prompts and GPU shortages: Lessons from scaling ChatGPT "Cache misses have this weird massive non-linear effect into how much work the GPUs are doing, because we suddenly need to start recomputing all this stuff."
AI Biden's AI Executive Order to create standards for identifying "AI-generated content and authenticating official content" Order also demands "strong new standards for biological synthesis screening" and follows UK concerns around
News A local, free, open source, generative AI stack for developers? Docker and friends aim to cover all the bases Package includes Ollama, which lets you download a range of open source LLM model packages, bundling weights, configuration and data into a single portable file
AI ICO slaps Snap over AI chat ICO suggests a "worrying failure" to assess privacy risks but says "no conclusion should be drawn" it issues a preliminary enforcement notice over ChatGPT-based chatbot...
Members only MongoDB A flurry of welcome new MongoDB tools show how powerful AI can be for developer productivity
Citi Job of the Week: Head of Generative AI Security, Citi "Ideate and leverage Gen AI to solve cybersecurity problems at scale for Citi..."