Following up on the publication of “AI security concerns in a nutshell - Practical AI-Security guide” by the German BSI (Federal Office of Information Security), I highlighted that another, more specific security concern to generative AI is prompt injection, a throwback to the SQL injection attacks of the… 2000s? 2010s? Anyway, OpenAI’s proposed... Read more 21 Apr 2023 - less than 1 minute read
Use Cases for AI presented by Matthias Lichtenthaler of the Federal Computing Center 🇦🇹 (“Bundesrechenzentrum”), at Future-Law “Digitaler E-Signatur Tag 2023”: Virtual Assistant: Case Categorization(?) Consultation/Assessment Semi-automated intelligent processing/answering Recognizing intentions Providing forms A... Read more 20 Apr 2023 - less than 1 minute read
Visual GPT, the multi-modal interface that a German Microsoft manager likely referred to in their earlier hints, has been released as source code: Github. And it’s a bit disappointing… at least when running on CPUs only, rather than GPUs. Details: Early reports are light on details, so here’s what to expect with the “Advice for CPU users”: t... Read more 17 Apr 2023 - 2 minute read
Entire language models are being pirated and touted as “Open Source”. This includes Vicuna, which has been making headlines as “90% quality of OpenAI ChatGPT” (which is B.S.). This illustration by Sahar Mor makes a distinction between “Research” and “Commercial”, and “Research” partially implies “legally tainted” (may also be true for ⚡ Lit-LlaM... Read more 14 Apr 2023 - less than 1 minute read
From the Amazon (pre-)announcement of Bedrock: One of the most important capabilities of Bedrock is how easy it is to customize a model. Customers simply point Bedrock at a few labeled examples in Amazon S3, and the service can fine-tune the model for a particular task without having to annotate large volumes of data (as few as 20 examples is... Read more 14 Apr 2023 - less than 1 minute read