Tag: g

  • Hacker News: 32k context length text embedding models

    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/09/18/voyage-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: 32k context length text embedding models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the launch of the Voyage 3 series embedding models, which provide significant advancements in retrieval quality, latency, and cost-effectiveness compared to existing models like OpenAI’s. Specifically, the Voyage 3 models…

  • Slashdot: Verify the Rust’s Standard Library’s 7,500 Unsafe Functions – and Win ‘Financial Rewards’

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/23/2327203/verify-the-rusts-standard-librarys-7500-unsafe-functions—and-win-financial-rewards?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Verify the Rust’s Standard Library’s 7,500 Unsafe Functions – and Win ‘Financial Rewards’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an initiative led by AWS and the Rust Foundation to enhance safety in the Rust programming language by crowdsourcing the verification of its standard library.…

  • Hacker News: AI PCs make users less productive

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/22/ai_pcs_productivity/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI PCs make users less productive Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Intel’s study reveals that users of PCs with built-in AI services tend to be less productive than those using traditional PCs. This is attributed to time spent on “digital chores,” with generative AI…

  • Hacker News: Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat

    Source URL: https://libera.chat/news/llm-etiquette Source: Hacker News Title: Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text establishes guidelines for the responsible use of Large Language Models (LLMs) on the Libera.Chat platform, emphasizing privacy, ethics, and community inclusivity. Key points include the necessity of user notification…

  • Slashdot: Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality?

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/23/1855203/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality Source: Slashdot Title: Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a blog post by GitHub that evaluates the impact of GitHub Copilot on code quality and developer efficiency. While initial data suggests positive outcomes—such as faster coding speeds and improved code readability—contradictory…

  • Hacker News: S3 Express Append has issues

    Source URL: https://blog.astradot.com/s3-express-append-has-issues/ Source: Hacker News Title: S3 Express Append has issues Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent updates to AWS S3 Express, particularly its append functionality, and compares it with EBS disks in handling data consistency within distributed systems. Professionals in AI, cloud, and infrastructure security…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…

  • Slashdot: ‘It’s Surprisingly Easy To Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots’

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/11/23/0513211/its-surprisingly-easy-to-jailbreak-llm-driven-robots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘It’s Surprisingly Easy To Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new study revealing a method to exploit LLM-driven robots, achieving a 100% success rate in bypassing safety mechanisms. The researchers introduced RoboPAIR, an algorithm that allows attackers to manipulate self-driving…

  • Hacker News: School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/school-did-nothing-wrong-when-it-punished-student-for-using-ai-court-rules/ Source: Hacker News Title: School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent ruling from a federal court highlighted the complexities surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings, particularly regarding policies and regulations governing…

  • Hacker News: AI Data Centers May Consume More Electricity Than Entire Cities

    Source URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/23/data-centers-powering-ai-could-use-more-electricity-than-entire-cities.html Source: Hacker News Title: AI Data Centers May Consume More Electricity Than Entire Cities Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the significant increase in power demand from data centers, particularly driven by the growing requirements of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. As these facilities expand, they…