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Going to keynote a convention in NYC this week! Excited to speak about AI, safety, and hope for the post-AI future.
Convention season is spinning up. Can’t wait to see folks. Issues I’ve on deck. Quite a few personal panels/talks within the Bay Space, speak in NYC, Day of Shecurity, RSA, LocoMocoSec, EDC, large con in Switzerland, presumably others. And that can be sufficient for the 12 months. The primary aim is to not get Covid or Conflu this 12 months.
Had a good time at BSides Milwaukee!
The comfortable launch of Threshold goes splendidly. I’m already getting MASSIVE advantages from utilizing it myself, which is truthfully my north star for the challenge. Extra on that in future posts/movies.
Cloth continues to thrive, and I proceed to consider the final word agent framework. Proper now it’s Crew.ai, however I’m wondering what the mannequin firms are going to have as a response, e.g., Anthropic incorporating instruments proper into their prompts this week.
MY WORK
I lastly turned my large, 9,000-word AI predictions essay into a full video! It’s like 70 minutes lengthy and consists of a lot of further narration and element outdoors of the textual content.
Please move it on to individuals who would love the content material however who might by no means get by means of a 9,000 phrase essay.
SECURITY
Israel’s high spy chief, Yossi Sariel, by chance revealed his identification by means of an Amazon e book sale linked to his actual identify. MORE
The CVE and NVD databases are struggling to maintain up with the large variety of vulnerabilities being created, resulting in gaps and inaccuracies. This might want to get addressed someway, however I’ve not heard any good strategies. MORE
In Montreal, criminals are utilizing Apple’s AirTags to trace and steal vehicles. MORE
DROPZONE AI IS THE FIRST AI SOC ANALYST THAT AUTONOMOUSLY INVESTIGATES ALERTS 24/7
Hey, Daniel right here. You understand how I speak about AI brokers on a regular basis? Nicely it’s taking place.
Dropzone.ai is AI agent know-how that takes alerts out of your setting and performs autonomous multi-step investigations similar to a human analyst.
No playbooks, code, or prompts required. It simply takes alerts and begins investigating them, after which comes again and writes a report.
It’s so good, I simply turned an advisor.
Panera Bread’s week-long IT downtime incident was a ransomware assault. MORE
CISA’s new Excessive-Danger Communities webpage affords cyber hygiene guides, volunteer help, and discounted instruments for organizations beneath cyber risk. MORE
The Cybersecurity Platform for IT Groups
Hundreds of safety instruments. Pushy distributors. Infinite product trainings. Sound acquainted?
IT groups typically wrestle to implement a robust safety program of their group as a result of shopping for and maximizing utilization of instruments is so laborious. Oh, they usually have a day job too.
? See how one can get 13 instruments in a single platform right here.
Israel’s army used an AI named Lavender to pinpoint 37,000 potential Hamas targets, which is elevating questions concerning the ethics of AI in warfare. MORE
TECHNOLOGY
There’s a rumor that Sam Altman and Jony Ive are constructing some form of AI wearable machine by means of a brand new secret firm. MORE
OpenAI launched improved methods of fine-tuning fashions. MORE
A brand new paper exhibits that including extra brokers to massive language fashions can considerably enhance their efficiency. MORE
This paper explores how AI could be main us in the direction of a ‘information collapse’ by oversimplifying complicated data. MORE
The U.S. is attempting to get South Korea to cease chipmaking instrument exports to China. MORE
The US is testing vitality storage in heated sand, aiming for 135 MW energy output for 5 days straight. MORE
Oura’s rolling out Symptom Radar to present you a nudge when your physique’s displaying indicators of pressure, nevertheless it’s not calling it sickness detection. For apparent causes. MORE
Amazon’s ditching its cashierless “Simply Stroll Out” tech in Contemporary shops for Sprint Carts, discovering the futuristic checkout too expensive and complicated. Disappointing. Too early I assume. MORE
HUMANS
New research are displaying that the rich are beginning to have extra children than the poor, reversing the earlier pattern. MORE
Regardless of a large earthquake, TSMC’s essential EUV tools remained unhurt as a result of they’ve some depraved constructing stabilization tech. Manufacturing was virtually totally restored the identical day. MORE
The Israeli army dismissed two senior officers and reprimanded three others for an airstrike that mistakenly killed seven World Central Kitchen volunteers in Gaza. MORE
The UK’s exporting employees to fill higher-paying US jobs. MORE
U.S. enterprise capital investments plummeted to $36.6 billion in Q1 2024, which is the bottom quarterly whole since 2017. MORE
I had an exquisite dialog with Mike Privette from Return on Safety about these VC and general financial traits, which can be launched quickly.
McKinsey’s providing UK workers 9 months of pay to voluntarily go away the corporate. MORE
Gen-Z goes for trades like welding and plumbing over faculty and pupil debt. MORE
House insurers are actually utilizing aerial photographs to resolve who will get dropped from protection. MORE
IDEAS & ANALYSIS
One other View of Imposter Syndrome (Click on for thread)
Tyler Cowen vs. Jonathan Haidt on Teen Woman Melancholy
Nicely, I by no means thought I’d see Tyler Cowen be unsuitable about one thing main. However I feel he did it right here with Jonathan Haidt. He had Jonathan on the present and massively disagreed with him about his analysis into teen (particularly lady) melancholy being attributable to social media. Price a watch.
The precise factor I feel Tyler is getting unsuitable is the AI Mediation half, which I’ve written about extensively. He’s proper that we’ll have AI mediation, however I feel he’s unsuitable that it’ll work the way in which he thinks it’ll.
He appears to suppose that AI will cease younger women from looking probably the most viral and poisonous content material on social media, and it’ll simply ship her the abstract as an alternative. Downside solved.
Um, no. That’s how HE will use it. And the way I’ll use it. And the way Jonathan will use it. And doubtless you, too.
However for younger folks consuming viral and poisonous content material, the content material itself is the purpose, not the abstract.
Does Tyler suppose AI will ship individuals who love standup comedy a abstract of the jokes made in a given standup, as an alternative to going to comedy exhibits?
Right here’s your abstract of this standup:
3 jokes on ladies and stereotypes
4 jokes on how clumsy he’s
2 playful racist jokes
2 hecklers have been addressed
Applause was 3/5 in comparison with different performers
We hope you’ve loved this hilarious AI abstract from ComixAI.
That doesn’t work for comedy, and it received’t work for younger children consuming viral/poisonous content material. The one method that may work is that if they’d a draconic blocker of all social media, and this was favored a service that summarized the content material.
However it wouldn’t be one thing the youngsters would set up themselves, nor fortunately use.
All that being stated although, he’s Tyler Cowen, so my possibilities of misunderstanding him and/or being unsuitable listed here are greater than normal.
Deepfaked Content material Summaries (Click on for thread)
AI and Music (Click on for thread)
DISCOVERY
Luke Stephens (hakluke) put out a tremendous weblog on his evolving strategy to bug bounty automation. He talks about going from Bash, to Python, to Golang, after which arriving at Cloud-native. Nice piece. MORE
Thomas Roccia wrote a tremendous piece on making use of LLMs to Risk Intelligence. Features a full pocket book for operating brokers utilizing Langchain that carry out varied TI duties. MORE | THE CODE NOTEBOOK
Burr is a Python framework that simplifies constructing GenAI apps by managing state with easy-to-use constructing blocks. | by DAGWorks-Inc | MORE
GIAM, a free open-source textbook, makes the artwork of arithmetic accessible, masking foundational subjects and proof methods, full with amusing chapter quotes. MORE
Gram turns risk modeling right into a self-hosted internet app, making it simpler for groups to collaborate on safety. | by Klarna-Incubator | MORE
ChatGPT now allows you to tweak photographs, like eradicating objects or altering components, simply by describing what you need within the chat. | MORE
Claude API’s new “instruments” function lets it faucet into the web, opening up a world of information it could not contact earlier than. | MORE
Youngsters are studying math from deepfake Taylor Swift and Drake on TikTok, and it is surprisingly efficient. MORE
I’m truthfully tremendous excited for deepfakes for most of these use-cases. Take the unhealthy and discover the nice. Like, if children completely love Taylor Swift, or Star Wars, let’s use that for training, tutoring, remedy, and so on.
We should be cautious with it, in fact, and be careful for IP points, however there’s plenty of good that may come from this.
RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK
Take a look at considered one of suno.ai’s high AI-generated songs.
You may not prefer it, however when you don’t, how totally different is it from different stuff you don’t? Is it that a lot worse? And when you do prefer it, how a lot are you able to inform it’s not human-generated?
APHORISM OF THE WEEK
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Don’t clarify your philosophy. Embody it.
Epictetus
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