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
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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
Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app
Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it’s calling Rufus that’s been trained on the e-commerce giant’s product catalog as well as information from around the web. The company says the new tool will launch to a subset of U.S. customers in beta, starting today, before expanding to more users in the weeks ahead. Customers will be able to chat with Rufus inside Amazon’s mobile app to get help with finding products, performing product comparisons, and getting recommendations on what to buy. – Read More
AI isn’t the problem — it’s the solution
Eying China, US proposes ‘know your customer’ cloud computing requirements
he Biden administration is proposing requiring U.S. cloud companies to determine whether foreign entities are accessing U.S. data centers to train AI models, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Friday.
“We can’t have non-state actors or China or folks who we don’t want accessing our cloud to train their models,” Raimondo said in an interview with Reuters. “We use export controls on chips,” she noted. “Those chips are in American cloud data centers so we also have to think about closing down that avenue for potential malicious activity.” – Read More
Meta releases ‘Code Llama 70B’, an open-source behemoth to rival private AI development
Meta AI, the company that brought you Llama 2, the gargantuan language model that can generate anything from tweets to essays, has just released a new and improved version of its code generation model, Code Llama 70B. This updated model can write code in various programming languages, such as Python, C++, Java and PHP, from natural language prompts or existing code snippets. And it can do it faster, better and more accurately than ever before. – Read More
The Cult of AI
I WAS WATCHING a video of a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show for the Rabbit R1, an AI gadget that promises to act as a sort of personal assistant, when a feeling of doom took hold of me.
It wasn’t just that Rabbit’s CEO Jesse Lyu radiates the energy of a Kirkland-brand Steve Jobs. And it wasn’t even Lyu’s awkward demonstration of how the Rabbit’s camera can recognize a photo of Rick Astley and Rickroll the owner — even though that segment was so cringe it caused me chest pains.
No, the real foreboding came during a segment when Lyu breathlessly explained how the Rabbit could order pizza for you, telling it “the most-ordered option is fine,” leaving his choice of dinner up to the Pizza Hut website. After that, he proceeded to have the Rabbit plan an entire trip to London for him. The device very clearly just pulled a bunch of sights to see from some top-10 list on the internet, one that was very likely AI-generated itself.
Most of the Rabbit’s capabilities were well in line with existing voice-activated products, like Amazon Alexa. Its claim to being something special is its ability to create a “digital twin” of the user, which can directly utilize all of your apps so that you, the person, don’t have to. It can even use Midjourney to generate AI images for you, removing yet another level of human involvement and driving us all deeper into the uncanny valley. – Read More
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