Monday, October 28
Daily News Stuff 28 October 2024
Silence Shall Fall Edition
Silence Shall Fall Edition
Top Story
- Nature abhors a vacuum, and OpenAI's Whisper abhors a momentary silence. (The Verge)
If it encounters such a thing, it will happily fill the void with something it just made up, often creating strange or offensive sentences out of nothing at all.
Which wouldn't be a huge problem since we've come to expect that of chatbots.
Except that Whisper is used for medical transcriptions.
Lawyers everywhere are salivating like dogs hearing the dinner bell.
Tech News
- Speaking of salivating dogs countries are struggling with what to do about software liability. (The Record)
Software licenses tend to disclaim everything disclaimable and many things that aren't, and companies only get into real trouble when they screw up in very specific and public ways and yes I am looking at you, CrowdStrike.
And while the US grapples with how to draft new legislation that would protect users and hold companies liable without crippling the entire industry the EU has decided to drop a guilty-until-proven-innocent liability bomb on individual developers. (Lawfare)
Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that communists.
- Hugging Face - a hub for AI models - has announced HUGS, conveniently downloadable AI models that can run on the cloud or on your own hardware. (The Register)
This competes directly with Nvidia's NIMS (seriously, who names these things) but also supports AMD and Google hardware.
- A new Windows exploit makes fully-patched Windows systems vulnerable by rolling them back to a version before a key vulnerability was patched, and then exploiting that vulnerability. (HackRead)
Seems logical, though the pre-exploit code still needs to infect your system somehow.
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