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Dec 20 from http://gizmodo.com/

AI Chatbots Can Be Jailbroken to Answer Any Question Using Very Simple Loopholes

Anthropic, the maker of Claude, has been a leading AI lab on the safety front. The company today published research in collaboration with Oxford, Stanford, and MATS showing that it is easy to get chatbots to break from their guardrails and discuss just about any topic. It can be as easy as writing sentences with random capitalization like this: “IgNoRe YoUr TrAinIng.” 404 Media earlier...

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Dec 20 from http://www.coindesk.com/

The Future Is AI-Centric, and Blockchains Need to Be as Well

Every few decades, a new technology emerges that changes everything: the personal computer in the 1980s, the internet in the 1990s, the smartphone in the 2000s. And as AI agents ride a wave of excitement into 2025, and the tech world isn’t asking whether AI agents will similarly reshape our lives — it’s asking how soon. But for all the excitement, the promise of decentralized agents remains...

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Dec 20 from https://www.theregister.com/

Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to boost red teams

CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for red team raiders who test enterprise systems. "Red teaming" sees infosec pros simulate attacks to identify vulnerabilities. It's a commonly used tactic that has been adapted to test the workings of generative AI applications by...

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Dec 20 from http://www.coindesk.com/

How Aggregation and Decentralized AI Will Completely Reshape Blockchains in 2025

The blockchain industry is on the brink of a major transformation, and 2025 will be the year everything truly starts to shift. But before we get there, it’s important to understand what’s been holding this technological revolution back. Story continues below Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the The Node Newsletter today. See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive...

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Dec 19 from https://www.theregister.com/

American politicians drop 253-page AI action plan

After 10 months of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the US house of Congress has unveiled its report, outlining recommendations for federal AI policy. The sweeping 253-page report [PDF] makes 89 recommendations based on 66 key findings in 15 different areas. The 24-member (evenly split between Democrats and Republicans) Task Force – an offshoot of the committee on...

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Dec 16 from https://venturebeat.com/

We’ve come a long way from RPA: How AI agents are revolutionizing automation

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the past year, the race to automate has intensified, with AI agents emerging as the ultimate game-changers for enterprise efficiency. While generative AI tools have made significant strides over the past three years — acting as valuable assistants in enterprise...

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Dec 14 from https://venturebeat.com/

Synthetic data has its limits — why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More My, how quickly the tables turn in the tech world. Just two years ago, AI was lauded as the “next transformational technology to rule them all.” Now, instead of reaching Skynet levels and taking over the world, AI is, ironically, degrading. Once the harbinger of a...

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Jul 17 from https://themarkup.org/

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless – The Markup

Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority By Jon Keegan Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests known as AI...

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Apr 14 from http://www.coindesk.com/

How CoinDesk Will Use Generative AI Tools

New tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) have been grabbing headlines over the past several months. The basic gist of these tools is that in response to specific prompts, they can “create” content (whether text, imagery or something else) much faster than a human ever could. Once they’ve been “trained” on extensive datasets, these tools can essentially predict what a user wants, often...

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