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25 Jul

X’s Grok chatbot is misleading voters about the presidential election

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The US is in the middle of another hotly contested and seemingly close presidential election. This election is also happening in this new age of widespread access to artificial intelligence and easily disseminated misinformation. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon says his office tracked the source of one key piece of election misinformation back to X’s Grok chatbot.The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that X’s premium chatbot service is passing along erroneous information about the deadlines for states’ presidential ballots including Minnesota. When Grok is asked “Which states’ presidential ballot deadlines have passed?”, Grok claims Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico,…

25 Jul

Video game performers will strike over AI concerns

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The SAG-AFTRA union today for a strike against several major video game publishers after failing to reach an accord over AI use. The action will take effect at 12:01 am on July 26."We're not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse A.I. to the detriment of our members," SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said."Enough is enough. When these companies get serious about offering an agreement our members can live – and work – with, we will be here, ready to negotiate."SAG-AFTRA performers working in games "deserve and demand the same fundamental protections as performers in film, television,…

25 Jul

AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on ‘thousands’ of YouTube videos without permission

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AI company Runway reportedly scraped “thousands” of YouTube videos and pirated versions of copyrighted movies without permission. 404 Media obtained alleged internal spreadsheets suggesting the AI video-generating startup trained its Gen-3 model using YouTube content from channels like Disney, Netflix, Pixar and popular media outlets.An alleged former Runway employee told the publication the company used the spreadsheet to flag lists of videos it wanted in its database. It would then download them without detection using open-source proxy software to cover its tracks. One sheet lists simple keywords like astronaut, fairy and rainbow, with footnotes indicating whether the company had found…

25 Jul

The US Senate unanimously passes a bill to empower victims of intimate deepfakes

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The US Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday designed to hold accountable those who make or share deepfake porn. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act) would allow victims to sue those who create, share or possess AI-generated sexual images or videos using their likeness. The issue took root in the public consciousness after the infamous Taylor Swift deepfake that circulated among online lowlifes early this year.The bill would let victims sue for up to $150,000 in damages. That number grows to $250,000 if it’s related to attempted sexual assault, stalking or harassment.It now moves…

25 Jul

Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results

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The race to bring more AI features to search is escalating, with Microsoft moving forward with additional tools for Bing. Today, the company began previews for Bing generative search, where the top result for a user's query will be an original response compiled by AI.The about Bing generative search showed a few sample results. In addition to the overview statement, Microsoft will provide links to the main sources that the large-language models and small-language models used to create their answer. It will also have a section of related information. For instance, with the sample query "how long do elephants live,"…

23 Jul

Condé Nast has reportedly accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism

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Condé Nast, the media conglomerate that owns publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI-powered search startup Perplexity, according to The Information. The letter, which was sent on Monday, demands that Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated responses and accused the startup of plagiarism.The move makes Condé Nast the latest in a growing list of publishers taking a stand against the unauthorized use of their content by AI companies, and comes a month after similar action taken by Forbes. Perplexity and Condé Nast did not immediately respond…

21 Jul

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review: The king, but for how much longer?

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No one has been making foldable phones longer than Samsung. And for the first few years, the sheer number of improvements we got on the Galaxy Z Fold line meant it didn’t really have any competition. But more recently, the pace of innovation has slowed while new challengers like the OnePlus Open and Pixel Fold have arrived. Now for 2024, Samsung has reinforced the Galaxy Z Fold 6 with a stronger but significantly lighter frame, a new ultra-wide-angle camera and a bunch of AI-powered tools. Unfortunately, not much else has changed, leaving us with a very iterative upgrade. So while…

21 Jul

Building Fullstack Chatbot with PyTorch, NumPy, NLTK, and Next.js – Complete Tutorial in 2024

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Description:In this tutorial, we will build a fullstack chatbot using modern technologies. We will leverage PyTorch for our deep learning model, NumPy for efficient numerical computations, NLTK for natural language processing, and Next.js for the frontend. By the end of this video, you will have a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate these tools to create a powerful chatbot from scratch. https://youtu.be/NoHtQiwoanA Hashtags: Source link lol

20 Jul

Fine-tuning LLAMA 3 for Text Classification with Limited Resources

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I recently needed to classify sentences for a particular use case at work. Remembering Jeremy Howard's Lesson 4: Getting started with NLP for absolute beginners, I first adapted his notebook to fine-tune DEBERTA. It worked, but not to my satisfaction, so I was curious what would happen if I used a LLM like LLAMA 3. The problem? Limited GPU resources. I only had access to a Tesla/Nvidia T4 instance. Research led me to QLORA. This tutorial on Fine tuning LLama 3 LLM for Text Classification of Stock Sentiment using QLoRA was particularly useful. To better understand the tutorial, I adapted…

19 Jul

Supercharging LLMs: RoT Fuses Language Models with Decision Tree Search to Boost Reasoning Power

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This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Supercharging LLMs: RoT Fuses Language Models with Decision Tree Search to Boost Reasoning Power. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview This paper explores a novel approach called "Reflection on Search Trees" (RoT) to enhance the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). RoT involves integrating tree search methods with LLMs to improve their reasoning and decision-making abilities. The paper presents the design and evaluation of the RoT system, demonstrating its effectiveness in outperforming traditional LLMs on various tasks.…