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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reveals secret AI strategy: “We have been quietly investing in AI,” he announces at the conference – Developpez.com

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, reveals at a SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles that the strategic decision to invest heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2018 was crucial to the company’s future. By focusing on AI-based image processing, including ray tracing and DLSS, Nvidia has redefined its hardware and helped shape the industry. … [Read more…]

PIGEON, an AI developed by three Stanford students capable of precisely geolocating photos, worrying privacy experts – Developpez.com

Three Stanford graduate students developed a project called Predicting Image Geolocations (PIGEON), an artificial intelligence (AI) capable of accurately geolocating photos, even those the program has never seen before. Originally designed to identify locations on Google Street View, PIGEON can now guess the location of a Google Street View image anywhere on Earth with high … [Read more…]

Microsoft launches Phi-2, a small LLM that is more efficient than Llama 2 and Mistral 7B and would outperform Google's recent Gemini Nano 2 – Developpez.com

Microsoft has just unveiled Phi-2, its latest artificial intelligence (AI) language model, positioning itself as a notable advance over competitors like Llama 2 and Mistral 7B. With 2.7 billion parameters, Phi-2 demonstrates comparable performance to much larger models, even outperforming Google’s recent Gemini Nano 2 despite its half a billion additional parameters. Microsoft researchers highlight … [Read more…]

GigaGPT: GPT-3 models in 565 lines of code that raise questions about robustness and adoption of established standards in the deep learning community – Developpez.com

GigaGPT presents itself as a Cerebras implementation of Andrei Karpathy’s nanoGPT and impresses with its simplicity and compactness with only 565 lines of code. This release promises to push the boundaries of model size and exceed 100 billion parameters without resorting to third-party code additions or frameworks. This is made possible by leveraging the memory … [Read more…]

L4S: a new technology that is intended to significantly speed up Internet connections and enable future-oriented applications. It is supported by companies like Apple and Google – Developpez.com

Many big players in the technology industry are fixated on a new standard: L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput). It is described as a new congestion control solution for latency. Simply put, L4S promises to revolutionize internet connectivity by reducing delays, improving data flow, enabling cutting-edge applications, scaling networks and prioritizing seamless user experiences. … [Read more…]

Are CAPTCHAs more than boring? An analysis discusses the negative consequences of their implementation, particularly in terms of user experience – Developpez.com

CAPTCHAs, automated public Turing tests to distinguish computers from humans, are now widespread on the web. They are designed to prevent spambots from spamming websites with unwanted content and provide a quick solution to the growing spam problem. However, CAPTCHAs are not without negative consequences, particularly in terms of user experience and conversions. You’ve probably … [Read more…]

Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots, AI Chatbots Can Convince Other Chatbots to Teach Users How to Make Bombs – Developpez.com

Today’s artificial intelligence chatbots have built-in limitations that prevent them from providing dangerous information to users. But a new preprint study shows how AIs can be tricked into tricking each other into revealing these secrets. In one study, researchers observed target AIs breaking rules to provide advice on how to synthesize methamphetamine, build a bomb, … [Read more…]

Exposed Hugging Face API Tokens Offer Full Access to Metas Llama 2, Says Lasso Security – Developpez.com

Security researchers at Lasso Security have discovered more than 1,500 API tokens from tech giants such as Meta, Microsoft, Google and VMware available on the open source platform Hugging Face. This compromise potentially puts 723 organizations at risk, including Meta, EleutherAI, and BigScience Workshop. The researchers found that most tokens had write permissions that allowed … [Read more…]

Windows 11: Microsoft plans an “Advanced Windows Settings” panel for developers to give power users more control over their PCs – Developpez.com

Microsoft has added many new features to Windows 11 over the past year, but the company is still working on some that haven’t shipped yet. Below that is a new Advanced Settings panel for Windows that allows power users to take more control of their operating system and improve their workflows. The new panel is … [Read more…]