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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,015 posts.
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Structured Outputs with Ollama
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
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Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Modern AI rewards being very weird.
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Claude's Character
How character training cultivates traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness in Claude using a variant of Constitutional AI.
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about selfies
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Testing Ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
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FrontierCode: An eval to measure whether you would actually merge the code
Today’s coding benchmarks have established that models can write correct code, but the question we should really be asking is: can models actually write…
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Auto-Generating Clickbait with Recurrent Neural Networks
Hey! If you are a web developer, you should know about CatchJS. It’s a service for tracking and logging errors in JavaScript, with some pretty exciting features. “F.D.R.’s War Pla…
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Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs
Today I'd like to share an idea. It's a very simple idea. It's not fancy and it's certainly not new. In fact, I'm sure many of you have thought about it already. But if you haven't—and even if you have!—I hope you'll take a few minutes to enjoy it with me. Here's the idea: Every matrix corresponds to a graph. So…
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Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant
Lumo gives you the power to solve problems big and small, while keeping your personal data confidential. Try it now.
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The future of deep learning
This post is adapted from Section 3 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications).
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John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby
THE ROBOT AND THE BABY
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Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice
Siri is a personal assistant that communicates using speech synthesis. Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we…
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for public trust on AI.
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The ways we contain Claude across products
As agents grow more capable, so does their potential blast radius. Here's what we learned building containment for claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork.
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Is the reversal curse in LLMs real?
A recent paper The Reversal Curse points out an apparent failure in large large language models like GPT-4. From the abstract: We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). If a model is
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Stanford Alpaca, and the acceleration of on-device LLM development
On Saturday 11th March I wrote about how Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment. Today is Monday. Let’s look at what’s happened in the past three days. …
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Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama
K/V context cache quantisation has been added to Ollama. This enables significant reductions in VRAM usage, allowing users to realise the potential of expanded context sizes and run larger models at their existing context sizes.
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LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals
This proposal aims to expressly forbid any contributions to Debian written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools.
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GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent.
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Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk
Talk to your smart home and let it talk back with our new voice assistant features.
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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.
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MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Two years later, its successor - AlphaZero - learned from scratch to master Go, chess and shogi. Now, in a paper in the journal Nature, we describe MuZero, a significant step forward in the…
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Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …