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Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor and Kai Greshake
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,334 posts.
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Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic
An embedding is the representation of a piece of text like a word, sentence, or paragraph. Traditionally this value is in the form of a mathematical vector - a point in space. You can think of it as analogous to coordinates on a map that just happens to have many, many dimensions.
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization
We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?
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First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft has made tons of noise about their Microsoft 365 Copilot toolset. They’ve made a lot of promises about its capabilities to enhance individual and team productivity, but access to it…
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FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
We introduce FunSearch, a method for searching for “functions” written in computer code, and find new solutions in mathematics and computer science. FunSearch works by pairing a pre-trained LLM, whose goal is to provide creative solutions in the form of computer code, with an automated “evaluator”, which guards…
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The AI Trust Crisis
Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new …
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Turing awardees republished key methods and ideas without credit
Whose Creators They Failed to Credit
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Google Imagen 2
Today, we’re sharing a significant upgrade to Google Cloud’s image-generation capabilities with Imagen 2 , our most advanced text-to-image technology, which is now generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access).
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Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
How fast is my Whisper Benchmark with the MLX Framework from Apple? Nvidia 4090 / M1 Pro / M2 Ultra / M3
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AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
The cult-like battles between e/acc and doomers
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Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models
Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.
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A new old kind of R&D lab
Answer.AI will figure out the fundamental research needed to tame AI, and the development path needed to make it useful in practice
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
GigaGPT is Cerebras’ implementation of Andrei Karpathy’s nanoGPT – the simplest and most compact code base to train and fine-tune GPT models.
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Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Mixtral of experts
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT
I have developed a way to supercharge ChatGPT. It’s called Nova Mode and it’s an awesome custom instruction that you can paste into your ChatGPT Custom instructions (see screenshot below) in ChatGPT Settings. This modifies how ChatGPT works in all your chats, giving you much more control over how you interact with…
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Gaussian explosion
Over the past month it seems like Gaussian Splatting (see my first post ) is experiencing a Cambrian Gaussian explosion of new research. The seminal paper came out in July 2023, and starting about mid-November, it feels like every day there’s a new paper or two coming out, related to Gaussian Splatting in some way…
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Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
StripedHyena-7B is an open-source model built beyond the Transformer architecture, matching Llama-2 and Mistral 7B while running faster on long sequences.
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StableLM Zephyr 3B
StableLM Zephyr 3B is a new chat model representing the latest iteration in our series of lightweight LLMs, preference tuned for instruction following and Q&A-type tasks.
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Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
Meta AI announces Purple Llama, a project for open trust and safety in generative AI, with tools for cybersecurity and input/output filtering.
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Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
Audiobox is Meta’s new foundation research model for audio generation.
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Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)
What is Sound ID? Today we announced one of our biggest breakthroughs—Sound ID, a new feature in the Merlin Bird ID app—and a major leap forward in sound identification and machine learning
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Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
Claude 2.1 excels at retrieving information across its 200K context window, with a simple prompt adjustment improving accuracy from 27% to 98%. Claude 2.1’s performance when retrieving an individual sentence across its full 200K token context window.
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