Researchers used AI to read letters on papyrus scroll damaged by the blast of heat, ash and pumice that destroyed Pompeii.
Scholars of antiquity believe they are on the brink of a new era of understanding after researchers armed with artificial intelligence read the hidden text of a charred scroll that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago. – Read More
Monthly Archives: February 2024
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs
An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use “neural networks” to generate realistic looking photos of fake IDs for just $15, radically disrupting the marketplace for fake identities and cybersecurity more generally. This technology, which 404 Media has verified produces fake IDs nearly instantly, could streamline everything from bank fraud to laundering stolen funds.
In our own tests, OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver’s license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we wanted. The photo even gives the appearance that the ID card is laying on a fluffy carpet, as if someone has placed it on the floor and snapped a picture, which many sites require for verification purposes. – Read More
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.
The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several other members of staff, but all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations, Hong Kong police said at a briefing on Friday. – Read More
The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data
One topic at the center of the AI universe this week is a potential breakthrough called Q*. Little has been revealed about this OpenAI project, other than its likely relationship to solving certain grade-school mathematical problems.
Amid much speculation, we decided to bring in our new general partner, Anjney Midha – focused on all things AI – to sift through the sea of noise.
Today, we discuss the key frontier research areas that AI labs are exploring on their path toward generalizable intelligence, from self-play, to model-free reinforcement learning to synthetic data. Anjney also shares his insights on which approach he expects to be most influential in the next wave of LLMs and why math problems are even a suitable testing ground for this kind of research. – Read More
VC’s share how AI will shape the future of tech startups
Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
Hugging Face, the New York City-based startup that offers a popular, developer-focused repository for open source AI code and frameworks (and hosted last year’s “Woodstock of AI”), today announced the launch of third-party, customizable Hugging Chat Assistants.
The new, free product offering allows users of Hugging Chat, the startup’s open source alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to easily create their own customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities, similar both in functionality and intention to OpenAI’s custom GPT Builder — though that requires a paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus ($20 per month), Team ($25 per user per month paid annually), and Enterprise (variable pricing depending on the needs). – Read More
Hire from these 9 AI-vy League companies, not Ivy League schools
A Harvard diploma, a PhD, or stint at Google are no longer the best signifiers of the top minds in artificial intelligence. Instead, hirers should look for engineers and researchers with applied AI experience at a group of nine startups that our data shows have the highest concentration of AI talent.
The past seven years have seen a de-credentialization of the AI hiring space as demand for engineering talent in the field explodes. The percentage of AI hires that come from top schools or have PhDs has dropped significantly from a peak in 2015, according to data from SignalFire’s own Beacon AI data platform. – Read More
Large Model Security and Ethics Research Report 2024
The rapid rise of large model applications has introduced some unique new risks to AI security that are different from previously discovered risks, such as prompt risks, including prompt injection and adversarial attacks. In response to the new security risks unique to such large models, we have built a prompt security evaluation platform, which is specially used to simulate the behavior of attackers to understand the security and performance of large models in risk scenarios associated with prompts. The purpose of this evaluation platform is to automatically discover potential innate security risks in advance before the large model goes online. It also assists the business in reducing risk during the process of launching the large model to ensure that its response content complies with various laws and regulations such as the “Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services”. Therefore, prompt security assessment requires automated attack sample generation and automated risk analysis capabilities. – Read More
Mastercard jumps into generative AI race with model it says can boost fraud detection by up to 300%
Payments giant Mastercard says it has built its own proprietary generative artificial intelligence model to help thousands of banks in its network detect and root out fraudulent transactions.
The company told CNBC exclusively that its new advanced AI model, Decision Intelligence Pro, will allow banks to better assess suspicious transactions on its network in real-time and determine whether they’re legitimate or not. – Read More
Cadence to sell AI supercomputer for jet design software
Cadence Design Systems (CDNS.O), opens new tab on Thursday said it has designed a new artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer system that can be used to simulate how air flows over jets and other gear as its competition with Ansys (ANSS.O), opens new tab heats up.
Cadence is best know for its software that helps design computer chips, where the precise placement of tens of billions of tiny electrical switches called transistors can make or break a chip’s speed and competitiveness. – Read More
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