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• Study Done By Apple AI Scientists Proves LLMs Have No Ability to Reason

  13-10-2024 23:48 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader Rick Schumann shared this report from the blog AppleInsider:
  A new paper from Apple's artificial intelligence scientists has found that engines based on large language models, such as those from Meta and OpenAI, still lack basic reasoning skills.
  The group has proposed a new benchmark, GSM-Symbolic, to help others measure the reasoning capabilities of various large language models (LLMs). Their initial testing reveals that slight changes in the wording of queries can result in si
  
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• $5,000 AI Pants: This Company Wants to Rent Hikers an Exoskeleton

  13-10-2024 22:35 via slashdot.org
  
  "Technical outerwear brand Arc'teryx and wearable technology startup Skip have teamed up to create exoskeleton hiking pants, powered by AI..." reports CNN.After four years of collaboration and testing, the two companies plan to start selling the battery-powered pants in 2025 for $5,000 — but they're also "available to rent and try out now," according to CNN's video report:"You can think of it like an e-bike for walking..." says Skip's co-founder and chief product officer Anna Roumiantseva.
  
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• Mystery Drones Swarmed a US Military Base for 17 Days. Investigators are Stumped

  13-10-2024 20:57 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Wall Street Journal reports on a "suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft... as many as a dozen or more" that appeared in Virginia 10 months ago "over an area that includes the home base for the Navy's SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval port." The article notes this was just 10 months after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon...
  After watching the drones — some "roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour" — there were wee
  
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• Zambia Faces a Climate-Induced Energy Crisis

  13-10-2024 19:43 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Zambia has the largest man-made lake in the world, reports the Associated Press — but a severe drought has left the lake's 128-meter-high (420-feet) dam wall "almost completely exposed". This leaves Kariba dam without enough water to run most of its hydroelectric turbines — meaning millions of people in Zambia now face "a climate-induced energy crisis..."
  The water level is so low that only one of the six turbines on Zambia's side of the dam is able to operate, cutting generation to
  
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• Running X86_64 (Linux) Game Servers on ARM With Box64

  13-10-2024 18:43 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Though native Linux game servers have been scarce over the last two decades, "I've seen people using the Box64 emulator to play x86_64 games on ARM devices," writes Slashdot reader VennStone. "It got me thinking: why not apply this to game servers...?"I thought it would be fun to see if I could build a super low-power Trackmania 2 server using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W."
  They dubbed the experiment "Trackberry", and shared all the technical details in a blog post at Interfacing Linux (includinga vi
  
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• SpaceX's Starship Completes Fifth Test Flight - and Lands Booster Back at Launch Tower

  13-10-2024 17:43 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Early this morning SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on its fifth test flight. But more importantly, CNBC points out, SpaceX "made a dramatic first catch of the rocket's more than 20-story tall booster."
  Watch the footage here. It's pretty exciting...
  The achievement marks a major milestone toward SpaceX's goal of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system... The rocket's "Super Heavy" booster returned to land on the arms of the company's launch tower nearly seven minutes afte
  
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• C Drops, Java (and Rust) Climb in Popularity - as Coders Seek Easy, Secure Languages

  13-10-2024 16:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Last month C dropped from 3rd to 4th in TIOBE's ranking of programming language popularity (which tries to calculate each language's share of search engine results). Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October "saw relatively little change" — though percentages of search results increased slightly. "At number one, Python jumped from 20.17% in September to 21.9% in October. In second place, C++ rose from 10.75% in September t
  
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• LLM Attacks Take Just 42 Seconds On Average, 20% of Jailbreaks Succeed

  13-10-2024 13:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  spatwei shared an article from SC World:Attacks on large language models (LLMs) take less than a minute to complete on average, and leak sensitive data 90% of the time when successful, according to Pillar Security.Pillar's State of Attacks on GenAI report, published Wednesday, revealed new insights on LLM attacks and jailbreaks, based on telemetry data and real-life attack examples from more than 2,000 AI applications. LLM jailbreaks successfully bypass model guardrails in one out of every five
  
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• Meta 'Supreme Court' Expands with European Center to Handle TikTok, YouTube Cases

  13-10-2024 09:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Meta's Oversight Board "is spinning off a new appeals center," reports the Washington Post, "to handle content disputes from European social media users on multiple platforms".It will operate under Europe's Digital Services Act, "which requires tech companies to allow users to appeal restrictions on their accounts before an independent group of experts.""I think this is really a game changer," Appeals Centre Europe CEO Thomas Hughes said in an interview. "It could really drive platform accountab
  
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• WSJ Profiles The 'Dangerous' Autistic Teen Cybercriminal Who Leaked GTA VI Clips

  13-10-2024 05:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The Wall Street Journal delves into the origin story of that teenaged Grand Theft Auto VI leaker.
  Arion Kurtaj, now 19 years old, is the most notorious name that has emerged from a sprawling set of online communities called the Com... Their youthful inventiveness and tenacity, as well as their status as minors that make prosecution more complicated, have made the Com especially dangerous, according to law-enforcement officials and cybersecurity investigators. Some kids, they say, are recruited f
  
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• North Carolina Maker of High-Purity Quartz Back Operating After Hurricane

  13-10-2024 03:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Thursday the Associated Press reported:One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely damaged by Hurricane Helene is operating again. Sibelco announced on Thursday that production has restarted at its mining and processing operations in Spruce Pine, located 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Asheville. [Per Wikipedia, its pre-hurricane population was 2,175.] Prod
  
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• California Newspaper Creates AI-Powered 'News Assistant' for Kamala Harris Info

  13-10-2024 00:34 via politics.slashdot.org
  
  After nearly 30 years of covering Kamala Harris, the San Francisco Chronicle is now letting ChatGPT do it. Sort of...
  "We're introducing a new way to engage with our decades of coverage: an AI-powered tool designed to answer your questions about Harris' life, her journey through public service and her presidential campaign," they announced this week:Drawing from thousands of articles written, edited and published by Chronicle journalists since 1995, this tool aims to give readers informed answer
  
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