The tech press is busy reporting on an alleged “Apple Chip Flaw Leaks Secret Encryption Keys”. This is not a real concern. Rather, it’s junk science. The researchers used a third-party cryptography tool/library, called “OpenSSL”. Apple’s own cryptography library is called “CryptoKit”, and this is commonly used by Apps and macOS/iOS/iPadOS itse... Read more 26 Mar 2024 - 1 minute read
AI Attribution in Art offers perspectives for tech workers pondering #GenAI disclosure: from subtle references to detailed disclosures, artists and curators are using various approaches to acknowledging AI contributions in their work. My article on derived Perspectives for Software Engineers examines: The “AI Assisted” label used by curator ... Read more 26 Mar 2024 - 1 minute read
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, including its great capacity of 1 million tokens, is currently available for free at https://aistudio.google.com/. It’s officially not available in the EU, and its Terms of Service, among others things, mandate that: You may only access the Services (or make API Clients available to users) within an available region. (I... Read more 22 Mar 2024 - 1 minute read
Following up on an announcement that LLaVA-NeXT had been merged into Huggingface Transformers, someone asked for a “vision-language model which can distinguish the left side from the right side of the frame/picture”. My response: There was a preprint paper just recently where they superimpose a grid onto the original image and also add coord... Read more 21 Mar 2024 - less than 1 minute read
IBM Research introduces “LAB”: “Large-scale Alignment for chatBots”. From their blogpost: The large language models (LLMs) behind modern chatbots are pre-trained on the raw text to learn an abstract representation of language. This then primes them to learn many tasks quickly once they see labeled, detailed instructions during alignment. But ... Read more 08 Mar 2024 - less than 1 minute read