Did you spend your weekend driving down the New Jersey Turnpike, mulling over the similarities between a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen’s outspoken opinions on the future of AI and famed urban planner Robert Moses’ confident views on the future of cities? I did.
Honestly, I can’t stop thinking about Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” from last week. I’m fully ashamed to say…
OpenAI’s new GPT-4V release supports image uploads — creating a whole new attack vector making large language models (LLMs) vulnerable to multimodal injection image attacks. Attackers can embed commands, malicious scripts and code in images, and the model will…
Over 20 AI leaders, including Marc Andreessen, will appear at 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum tomorrow
October 24, 2023
Twenty-one AI leaders will appear tomorrow at the 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum. The event comes over a month after what was supposed to be the first of nine forums in which all 100 senators have the opportunity to get a crash course on a variety of issues related to AI…
Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
October 24, 2023
Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene nearly a year ago, the generative AI era has kicked into high gear, but so too has the opposition.
A number of artists, entertainers, performers and even record labels have filed lawsuits against AI companies, some against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, based on the “secret sauce” behind all these new tools: training data. That is, these AI models would not work…
A new platform that allows users to fine-tune open-source large language models (LLMs) without writing any code has recently launched new features that make the process even easier and faster.
The platform, called MonsterAPI, was created by a team of researchers and…
Join the Economic Freedom Nexus — No BS Crypto News in the Context of Permissionless Exchange – Op-Ed Bitcoin News
October 24, 2023
We all know central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are the furthest thing there is from actual cryptocurrency. That “financial inclusion” usually just means more laws preventing poor people from free exchange and survival in broken, state-run fiat madhouses. The…
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Closes in on $31,000 as S&P 500 Plunges to 4-Month Low – Market Updates Bitcoin News
October 24, 2023
Bitcoin started the week surging towards the $31,000 level, as the S&P 500 fell to a four-month low. Momentum in crypto markets has remained mostly bullish in recent days, following speculation on upcoming exchange-traded fund (ETF) approvals by the United States SEC. Ethereum rose above the $1,700 mark.
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Bitcoin climbed to a fresh multi-month high to start the week, as market sentiment…
Above all else, the commander of 1st Special Forces Command says he wants to see creativity out of the Army’s special operators — he thinks it’s what will provide them with an edge in the next fight in light of the rapid tactical innovations occurring on Ukraine’s…
Longtime Defense News contributor journalist Burak Ege Bekdil died in an Ankara hospital following surgery complications after a prior motorbike accident, according to family and colleagues in Turkey.
Bekdil had a decades-long career in journalism, writing for Turkish…
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has ended its effort to compete for a U.S. Air Force contract to build the service’s next wave of 75 refueling tankers.
But Airbus, with whom Lockheed Martin had planned to build the proposed LMXT strategic tanker, will still compete for the KC-135 recapitalization. LMXT would have been based on Airbus’s A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport.
“Airbus remains…
