The past couple of years have been fueled entirely by vibes. Awash with nonsensical predictions and messianic claims that AI has come to deliver us from our tortured existence. Starting shortly after the launch of ChatGPT, internet prophets have claimed that we are merely six months away from major impacts and accompanying unemployment. GPT-5 was …
You might wonder why AI companies are working on seemingly simple and unimportant advancements in AI when there are much more significant problems to solve. Why would companies trying to create AGI get sidetracked by focusing on potentially already-solved problems? A couple of examples are OpenAI’s voice cloning, Google’s VLOGGER, and Microsoft’s VASA-1.This research, for …
Prompt Injection is a term for a vulnerability in Large Language Model applications that’s entered the technical lexicon. However, the term itself creates its own set of issues. The most problematic is that it conjures images of SQL Injection, leading to problems for developers and security professionals. Association with SQL Injection leads both developers and …
If we are not careful, we are about to enter an era of software development, where we replace known, reliable methods with less reliable probabilistic ones. Where methods such as prompting a model, even with context, can still lead to fragility causing unexpected and unreliable outputs. Where lack of visibility means you never really know …