March 14, 2025
How to Secure Docker Containers with Best Practices
Learn how to protect your Docker containers from vulnerabilities and security threats by following these best practices. Source link
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March 14, 2025
A Coding Guide to Build a Multimodal Image Captioning App Using Salesforce BLIP Model, Streamlit, Ngrok, and Hugging Face
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build an interactive multimodal image-captioning application using Google’s Colab platform, Salesforce’s powerful BLIP model, and Streamlit for an intuitive web interface. Multimodal models, which combine image and text processing capabilities, have become increasingly important in AI applications, enabling tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and more. This step-by-step guide ensures a smooth setup, clearly addresses common pitfalls, and demonstrates how to integrate and deploy advanced AI solutions, even without extensive experience. !pip install transformers torch torchvision streamlit Pillow pyngrok First we install transformers, torch, torchvision, streamlit, Pillow, pyngrok, all necessary dependencies for
March 14, 2025
Trading Training Costs for Inference Ingenuity
(AntonKhrupinArt/Shutterstock) A massive shift is underway as the artificial intelligence industry pivots from obsessing over large pre-training investments to a new frontier: optimizing inference. This shift is transforming the economics of AI, paving the way for new opportunities in innovation and competition. The early days of the AI revolution were marked by a simple philosophy: bigger is better. Companies poured billions into training increasingly large models, believing that increased scale would inevitably lead to improved performance. While effective, this came with astronomical costs in computing power and energy consumption. Now, we’re witnessing a more nuanced evolution. Just as humans didn’t evolve
March 14, 2025
Palantir and Databricks Announce AI Product Partnership
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2025 — Databricks and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), provider of enterprise operating systems, today announced a strategic product partnership that combines Palantir’s AI operating system and Databricks’ platform for AI, data warehousing and data engineering. The partnership will provide an open and scalable data architecture that combines Palantir’s powerful Ontology System with Databricks’ processing scale and industry-leading data and AI platform. With battle-tested improvements for joint customers in the field, Palantir and Databricks are delivering real-time, AI-powered autonomous workflows to customers through the integration of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Palantir AIP. Through the combination of Unity Catalog through Delta Sharing and
March 14, 2025
What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained
Two class action lawsuits were filed by authors against Meta in 2023 claiming misuse of their copyrighted books as training material for Llama. The courts haven’t been terribly sympathetic to the authors. The first case, Kadrey et al. v. Meta Platforms, was filed in July 2023. The second, Chabon v. Meta Platforms, was filed in September 2023. The two cases were combined, and the combined case was dismissed on all but one count, direct copyright violation, in December 2023. It still dragged on with amended complaints for another year; in September 2024 the judge ordered “Based on previous filings, the
March 14, 2025
Microsoft Unveils New AI Model to Edit Video Games
So far, AI has only nipped at the edge of the games industry with tools for art, music, writing, coding, and other elements that make up video games. But what if an AI model could generate examples of gameplay from a single screenshot? That’s the idea behind Microsoft’s Muse, a transformer model with 1.6 billion parameters trained on 500,000 hours of player data. The result is a model that, when prompted with a screenshot of the game, can generate multiple examples of gameplay, which can extend up to several minutes in length. “They have trained what’s essentially a neural game
March 14, 2025
Is Microsoft in Hot Water With The FTC Over AI Operations Antitrust Issues?
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on CNBC. Source: YouTube The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will move ahead with a wide-ranging antitrust probe into Microsoft’s AI operations. Announced in the final days of the Biden administration, the Trump administration’s new FTC chair Andrew Ferguson will lead the probe. The FTC sent Microsoft a civil investigative demand late last years asking it to provide data about its AI models, including how training data is obtained and how much it costs to train an AI. The civil investigative demand stretches all the way back to 2016 and covers nearly a decade’s worth of data.
March 14, 2025
Artificial muscles for tremor suppression
It is estimated that around 80 million people worldwide live with a tremor. For example, those who live with Parkinson’s disease. The involuntary periodic movements sometimes strongly affect how patients are able to perform daily activities, such as drinking from a glass or writing. Wearable soft robotic devices offer a potential solution to suppress such tremors. However, existing prototypes are not yet sophisticated enough to provide a real remedy. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), the University of Tübingen, and the University of Stuttgart under the Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS) collaboration want to change this.
March 14, 2025
Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws
In late 2023, a team of third-party researchers discovered a troubling glitch in OpenAI’s widely used artificial intelligence model GPT-3.5. When asked to repeat certain words a thousand times, the model began repeating the word over and over, then suddenly switched to spitting out incoherent text and snippets of personal information drawn from its training data, including parts of names, phone numbers, and email addresses. The team that discovered the problem worked with OpenAI to ensure the flaw was fixed before revealing it publicly. It is just one of scores of problems found in major AI models in recent years.
March 14, 2025
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Determines Which Political Party Has Performed Better for the Economy
Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok is now apparently a Democratic operative. That’s our takeaway, at least, from Grok’s response to progressive activist Alex Cole after he tagged the chatbot on X and asked it whether Republicans or Democrats were “better for the economy in the last 30 years.” Grok was so eager to shill for Elon Musk’s opposition that instead of staying within the timeframe Cole asked, it summarized politics and economics since World War II — a period during which “Democrats have outperformed Republicans on the economy,” the chatbot noted. “[Gross domestic product] growth averages 4.23% under Dems