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Researchers turn to Harry Potter to make AI forget about copyrighted material

As the debate heats up around the use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic’s Claude 2, one obvious question arises: can these models even be altered or edited to remove their knowledge of such works, without totally retraining them or rearchitecting them? In a new paper published on the open access and non-peer…
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The Army’s new fitness program team will come to you

WASHINGTON — The command rolling out the Army’s new, all-encompassing fitness program has a fresh way to get the program’s expertise inside more units. If an active duty division commander can dedicate a five-soldier team — comprised of one captain, two senior…
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Change of plans: US Army embraces lessons learned from war in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Expensive, massive tanks destroyed by small and cheap loitering munitions. Drones helping artillery locate targets. A battlefield so flooded with sensors that it’s impossible to stay hidden for long. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Army has carefully taken note of these trends. Now those changes are reshaping the service’s plans from acquisition to how to…
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US Army narrows focus to one robotic combat vehicle

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has adjusted its pursuit of three robotic combat vehicles of different sizes, instead moving forward with a single size that fits the mission needs and can keep up with crewed combat vehicles, according to the service’s program executive…
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The Army’s new chief has a plan and it’s all about warfighting

Gen. Randy George begins his tenure leading the Army as it faces a period of rapid change, competition with adversaries across the globe and a strained force. The new chief of staff intends to fuel that fight by distilling the complex set of challenges facing the force into a singular goal: ensuring the service is the best warfighting organization it can be. The general was once a private, having…
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Army CIO Garciga forecasts cloud growth following ‘really hard sprint’

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is well on its way to widespread, secure use of cloud computing capabilities following what the service’s new chief information officer characterized as a “really hard sprint.” The Army considers cloud migration and adoption fundamental to the overhaul of its larger networks and collaborative capabilities. Mastering cloud could also help take advantage of…
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