Capitalizing on malware-free tradecraft to launch undetectable breaches, attackers rely on legitimate system tools and living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques to breach endpoints undetected. Malware-free attacks trade on the trust of legitimate tools, rarely generating a unique signature and relying on fileless execution.
Across all malicious activity tracked by CrowdStrike and reported in their…
Generative AI datasets could face a reckoning | The AI Beat
August 22, 2023
Over the weekend, a bombshell story from The Atlantic found that Stephen King, Zadie Smith and Michael Pollan are among thousands of authors whose copyrighted works were used to train Meta’s generative AI model, LLaMA, as well as other large language models, using a…
How businesses can measure the success of AI applications
August 21, 2023
Artificial intelligence — generative AI, in particular — is the talk of the town. Applications like ChatGPT and LaMDA have sent shockwaves across industries, with the potential to revolutionize the way we work and interact with technology.
One fundamental characteristic…
AI in OT: Opportunities and risks you need to know
August 21, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI apps such as ChatGPT and Bard, have dominated the news cycle since they became widely available starting in November 2022. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is often used to generate text trained on large volumes of text data.
Undoubtedly impressive, gen AI has composed new songs, created images and drafted emails (and much more), all…
How businesses can ensure a prolonged AI summer
August 20, 2023
The excitement around generative AI is a textbook example demonstrating the top of a technology hype cycle. The newest gauge on emerging technologies from Gartner shows gen AI near the “peak of inflated expectations.”
For example, McKinsey has stated that the…
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One of the main barriers to putting large language models (LLMs) to use in practical applications is their unpredictability, lack of reasoning and uninterpretability. Without being able to address these challenges, LLMs will not be trustworthy tools in critical settings.
In a recent paper, cognitive scientist Gary Marcus and AI pioneer Douglas Lenat delve into these challenges, which they…
What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a Transformer paper coauthor
August 19, 2023
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is in a rapid state of evolution these days, not only with OpenAI, Meta, and Google competing directly on foundation models, but doing so while some of their biggest in-house talent leaves to launch their own gen…
Arthur unveils Bench, an open-source AI model evaluator
August 18, 2023
New York City-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Arthur has announced the launch of Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for evaluating and comparing the performance of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI‘s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta’s LLaMA 2.
“With Bench…
Buildbox wants ordinary creators and aspiring game developers to create the visual narrative games of the future with its new tool StoryGames.AI.
StoryGames.AI is live now. It combines generative AI with user-friendly tools to inspire amateurs to create games that are like visual novels, said Jonathan Zweig, CEO of Buildbox, in an interview with GamesBeat.
In a world where storytelling takes…
