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GenAI

A collection of 40 issues

Not a surprise

This is not surprising or even news. People have been having a lot of fun bypassing for a while, and prompt injection is a real thing AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchersFive systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responsesThe

Smoke and mirrors

You may hear the term AGI. It stands for Artificial General Intelligence and its basically AI that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of tasks. Like any computer in a sci-fi movie. I put it in the same category as cold fusion, every crypto project (ever) and

AI and Bias

A good few years ago I put a job description I’d wrote through a tool to analyse the gender bias in the words and narrative. One of the guys in HR suggested it as he’d been using it. I can never remember the name of the tool, but

Earth Day 2024

It was Earth Day yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it (Greenwashing). I’ve posted about the power consumption needs of Big Tech and the ‘next big thing’ but finally found an article on the water impact, which has gone under the radar somewhat. The Secret Water Footprint of AI

Impossible to find things

I’m going to predict that an ability to source and evaluate accurate information (critically) is going to become one of the most popular and crucial things to check when hiring people. No matter the role. I wanted to search for some information on Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU). It’

LLM Quality degradation and collapse

Some interesting links for more technical pals. Any discussion probably better at a roundtable/conference as I can’t find answers. Or maybe there are clever people to follow? Thinking in terms of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - so we’re in risk management territory not software development…you

LLM's peaking?

One final article on actual LLM performance which is interesting. Then I need to do something else with my Sunday. Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns - and what that might meanThe conventional wisdom, well captured recently by Ethan Mollick, is that LLMs are advancing exponentially.

Another Big Short

Ed Zitron wrote a well researched, no-holds barred, non-technical opinion piece on the current state of AI. Have We Reached Peak AI?Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that

What will people do?

In the open source software community tensions are beginning to rise because a lot of projects are being swamped with PRs right now. But it’s become very apparent, very quickly, that the PRs have come from AIs and the people submitting them cannot fully explain what it does or

Beyond the hype

This is an interesting opinion piece, as it goes a little beyond the ‘You need to buy a monorail’ hype* Are Expectations For Gen AI Lower Than Planned?At least 90% of the POCs for gen AI that launched during 2023 will not make it to production in 2024. Yet,