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Windows 11’s Start Menu could soon show information in a floating sidebar – gHacks Tech News

Windows 11’s Start Menu could soon show information in a floating sidebar – gHacks Tech News

Microsoft introduced support for what it calls Start Menu Companions in a recent Windows 11 beta build. This feature adds a sidebar to the Start Menu that display information, for instance from widgets. The last major overhaul of the Windows Start menu launched with the release of Windows 11. Microsoft removed several features of the Windows 10 Start menu, including support for live tiles and customization options. It did introduce the split design that shows pinned apps at the top and recommendations at the bottom. I called the Windows 11 Start menu barely usable back in 2021 when it first…
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An interview with the most prolific jailbreaker of ChatGPT and other leading LLMs

An interview with the most prolific jailbreaker of ChatGPT and other leading LLMs

Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Around 10:30 am Pacific time on Monday, May 13, 2024, OpenAI debuted its newest and most capable AI foundation model, GPT-4o, showing off its capabilities to converse realistically and naturally through audio voices with users, as well as work with uploaded audio, video, and text inputs and respond to them more quickly, at lower cost, than its prior…
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GPTs are GPTs

GPTs are GPTs

Foundation models are at an inflection point of becoming general purpose technologies. New general purpose technologies create opportunities for companies to build products that transform how we work and live. Think of generational companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple shape our daily lives. This is why I’m starting Generational - a publication chronicling the most consequential AI trends and the companies driving it. OpenAI’s Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs) models is a specific class of foundation models, which are intelligent adaptable models comparable to humans. General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) are technologies that affect entire economies and meaningfully alter how have we…
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Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

"We need more energy, not less."Ripped Out of RetirementAI, which proponents say is humanity's future, is keeping the power infrastructure in the United States woefully in the past.As The Financial Times reports, the power demand required to keep energy-guzzling AI models running is moving back the country's plans to retire heavily polluting and non-renewable coal energy.According to the FT, major coal producers including AlliantEnergy have already moved sustainability goals by at least a few years. Electric utility company FirstEnergy also scrapped its 2030 goals entirely in February over demand concerns, as Bloomberg reported at the time.The moving of goalposts comes…
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UALink: Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop AI Chip Components

UALink: Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop AI Chip Components

AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft are combining their expertise to create an open industry standard for an AI chip technology called Ultra Accelerator Link. The setup will improve high-speed and low latency communications between AI accelerator chips in data centres. An open standard will advance artificial intelligence/machine learning cluster performance across the industry, meaning that no singular firm will disproportionately capitalise on the demand for the latest and greatest AI/ML, high-performance computing and cloud applications. Notably absent from the so-called UALink Promoter Group are NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services. Indeed, the Promoter Group…
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On the Convergence of Multi-objective Optimization under Generalized Smoothness

On the Convergence of Multi-objective Optimization under Generalized Smoothness

arXiv:2405.19440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is receiving more attention in various fields such as multi-task learning. Recent works provide some effective algorithms with theoretical analysis but they are limited by the standard $L$-smooth or bounded-gradient assumptions, which are typically unsatisfactory for neural networks, such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformers. In this paper, we study a more general and realistic class of $ell$-smooth loss functions, where $ell$ is a general non-decreasing function of gradient norm. We develop two novel single-loop algorithms for $ell$-smooth MOO problems, Generalized Smooth Multi-objective Gradient descent (GSMGrad) and its stochastic variant, Stochastic…
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Implementing Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock in support of GDPR (right to be forgotten) requests | Amazon Web Services

Implementing Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock in support of GDPR (right to be forgotten) requests | Amazon Web Services

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, gives individuals the right to request the deletion of their personally identifiable information (PII) data held by organizations. This means that individuals can ask companies to erase their personal data from their systems and from the systems of any third parties with whom the data was shared. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that makes foundational models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies and Amazon available through an API, so you can choose from a wide range of FMs to find…
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Children’s visual experience may hold key to better computer vision training

Children’s visual experience may hold key to better computer vision training

A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI systems to explore extreme environments or distant worlds, according to research from an interdisciplinary team at Penn State. In the first two years of life, children experience a somewhat narrow set of objects and faces, but with many different viewpoints and under varying lighting conditions. Inspired by this developmental insight, the researchers introduced a new machine learning approach that uses information about spatial position to train AI visual systems more efficiently. They…
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Diffusion Policy Attacker: Crafting Adversarial Attacks for Diffusion-based Policies

Diffusion Policy Attacker: Crafting Adversarial Attacks for Diffusion-based Policies

arXiv:2405.19424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a promising approach for behavior cloning (BC). Diffusion policies (DP) based on DMs have elevated BC performance to new heights, demonstrating robust efficacy across diverse tasks, coupled with their inherent flexibility and ease of implementation. Despite the increasing adoption of DP as a foundation for policy generation, the critical issue of safety remains largely unexplored. While previous attempts have targeted deep policy networks, DP used diffusion models as the policy network, making it ineffective to be attacked using previous methods because of its chained structure and randomness injected. In…
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GamesBeat Summit 2024: How AI can be used to protect humans in games

GamesBeat Summit 2024: How AI can be used to protect humans in games

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.  One of the topics that came up at GamesBeat Summit was the prevalence and potential of AI within the gaming sphere — especially Will Wright’s talk on the future of AI in game development. Another talk on the subject was with Kim Kunes, Microsoft’s VP of Gaming Trust & Safety, who had a fireside chat with…
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