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We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score

24 septembre 2023 /

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“Although we enthusiastically awarded it a solid score at launch last year, thanks to its innovative repair-friendly architecture—of which we remain big fans—the reality for folks trying to fix these things has been very different. Most major repairs on modern iPhones require Apple approval. You have to buy parts through their system, then have the repair validated via a chat system. Otherwise, you’ll run into limited or missing functionality, with a side of annoying warnings. ”

Source : We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit News

38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

24 septembre 2023 /

“Microsoft’s AI research team, while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of additional private data — including a disk backup of two employees’ workstations. The backup includes secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. The researchers shared their files using an Azure feature called SAS tokens, which allows you to share data from Azure Storage accounts.”

Source : 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers | Wiz Blog

OpenAI’s CEO Once Bragged About His Hoard of Guns and Gas Masks

24 septembre 2023 /

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“The tech wunderkind explained to the assembled partygoers that he’s freaked by the concept of the world ending and wants to prepare to survive it. The two scenarios he gave as examples, and we promise we’re not making this up, were a « super contagious » lab-modified virus « being released » onto the world population and « AI that attacks us. » « I try not to think about it too much, » the OpenAI CEO told the reportedly uncomfortable startup founders surrounding him at that forgotten Silicon Valley gathering. « But I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to. » So yeah, that’s the guy who is in charge of the company that was initially founded with the philanthropic goal of promoting responsible AI, and which subsequently decided to go for-profit and is now making money hand over fist on its super-sophisticated neural networks that many fear will take their jobs. Do with that information what you will.”

Source : OpenAI’s CEO Once Bragged About His Hoard of Guns and Gas Masks

ChatGPT à l’école: ange ou démon?

22 septembre 2023 /

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“Les enseignant·es sont souvent sous l’eau et n’ont pas le temps de se former tout le temps. Nous devons évidemment leur fournir des outils et proposer des formations. Mais à la vitesse à laquelle évoluent les outils tels que ChatGPT et le temps que prennent parfois les formations, force est de constater qu’il y a un problème. Nous devons trouver des solutions pour ne pas cesser de former les enseignant·es, en continu et de la façon la plus efficace possible sur les sujets qui touchent de façon générale au numérique. Ce qui pose des questions nombreuses et complexes, en termes de formats, de quantité de matière et de pertinence selon les disciplines. Un enjeu plus facile à relever, sur lequel nous travaillons déjà, est la formation sur les connaissances de base en sciences informatiques.”

Source : ChatGPT à l’école: ange ou démon? – EPFL

TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)  |  Google Cloud

22 septembre 2023 /

“Découvrez la magie des TPU Google Cloud, y compris une vue exceptionnelle des centres de données où se déroule toute l’action. Nos clients utilisent des Cloud TPU pour exécuter certaines des charges de travail d’IA les plus importantes au monde, et cette puissance ne se résume pas à une simple puce. Dans cette vidéo, découvrez les composants du système TPU : mise en réseau de centres de données, commutateurs de circuits optiques, systèmes de refroidissement à eau, vérification de la sécurité biométrique, etc.”

Source : TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)  |  Google Cloud

Amazon previews the future of Alexa with generative AI

22 septembre 2023 /

“As humans, we often pause during conversation to gather our thoughts, or emphasize a point, and identifying those cues is incredibly hard for an AI. This new CSR engine is capable of adjusting to those common natural pauses and hesitation—enabling more flowing, natural conversation. Finally, generative AI has enabled us to enhance our text-to-speech technology, using a large transformer model to make Alexa much more expressive and attuned to conversational cues. What this means is that Alexa will adapt to your cues and modulate its response and tone akin to human conversations. Ask Alexa if your team won, and it will respond in a joyful voice if so; if they lost, the response is more empathetic. Ask Alexa for an opinion, and the response will be more enthusiastic, as it would if a friend was sharing a point of view.”

Source : Amazon previews the future of Alexa with generative AI

DALL·E 3

22 septembre 2023 /

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“Modern text-to-image systems have a tendency to ignore words or descriptions, forcing users to learn prompt engineering. DALL·E 3 represents a leap forward in our ability to generate images that exactly adhere to the text you provide.”

Source : DALL·E 3

Un «vol systématique à grande échelle»: plusieurs auteurs, dont celui de «Game of Thrones», attaquent OpenAI en justice

21 septembre 2023 /

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“Les modèles de langage «mettent en danger la capacité des auteurs de fiction à gagner leur vie, dans la mesure où ils permettent à n’importe qui de générer automatiquement et gratuitement (ou à très bas prix) des textes pour lesquels ils devraient autrement payer des auteurs», argumentent les avocats dans la plainte de mardi. Ils font aussi valoir que les outils d’IA générative peuvent servir à produire des contenus dérivés, qui imitent le style des écrivains. «De manière injuste et perverse, (…) la copie délibérée (du travail) des plaignants transforme donc leurs œuvres en moteurs de leur propre destruction», assène la plainte.”

Source : Un «vol systématique à grande échelle»: plusieurs auteurs, dont celui de «Game of Thrones», attaquent OpenAI en justice – Le Temps

How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their private islands

18 septembre 2023 /

Not for sale … part of the coast of the sovereign state of Nauru.

“I want to stress again that EA is a very serious and intelligent movement promoted by very serious and intelligent people because, to the untrained eye, it can sometimes look like a cult of unhinged narcissists. That Nauru project, for example? That wasn’t the only weird idea the folk at FTX had dreamed up in the name of effective altruism. According to the court filings, the FTX Foundation, the non-profit arm of FTX, had authorised a $300,000 (£230,000) grant to an individual to “write a book about how to figure out what humans’ utility function is (are)”. The foundation also made a $400,000 grant “to an entity that posted animated videos on YouTube related to ‘rationalist and [effective altruism] material’, including videos on ‘grabby aliens’”.
So there you go. Some of the best minds of our generation (or so they’d have you believe) are busying themselves with strategies on grabby aliens and Pacific island bunkers. Is this effective? Is this altruism? I can’t tell you for sure what the future of effective altruism is, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. ”

Source : How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their private islands | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Google throws California $93M to make tracking suit go away

18 septembre 2023 /

“As has been the case in similar lawsuits filed against Google, California alleges that Google designed its location tracking system to deceive users into allowing the collection of location data that could be sold to advertisers for Google’s benefit. Even when such collection was disabled, the California suit alleged, data was still collected through other sources; Google was also misleading about users’ ability to opt out of location-based ad targeting, California claims.
« Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users one thing – that it would no longer track their location once they opted out – but doing the opposite and continuing to track its users’ movements for its own commercial gain. That’s unacceptable, and we’re holding Google accountable with today’s settlement, » said California AG Rob Bonta. ”

Source : Google throws California $93M to make tracking suit go away • The Register

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