"...Suddenly every PC becomes a target for Discovery during legal proceedings. Lawyers can subpoena your Recall database and search it, no longer being limited to email but being able to search for terms that came up in Teams or Slack or Signal messages, and potentially verbally via Zoom or Skype if speech-to-text is included in Recall data..."
Microsoft has struggled with security and privacy in its products. CEO Satya Nadella pledged to make security the most important thing at the company...To launch Recall with exploitable security holes flies in the face of that directive.
As someone who has been tracking this space closely for well over a year I can tell you that the 'unjustified hype' era of modern AI is well and truly over.
That doesn't mean there isn't going to be more hype - far from it. There's too much money riding on that for it to be otherwise.
But it does mean that everyone (and, in particular, journalists) now come at the field with a set of perspectives, critiques and questions that can quickly pierce holes in this most overinflated of balloons.
These AI tools still hallucinate an alarming amount of the time: the Lexis+ AI and Ask Practical Law AI systems produced incorrect information more than 17% of the time, while Westlaw’s AI-Assisted Research hallucinated more than 34% of the the time.
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"Now, [Altman] has fulfilled a longtime goal by striking a deal with Apple to use OpenAI’s conversational artificial intelligence in its products, which could be worth billions of dollars to the startup if it goes well."
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Breaking a heat record by three degrees - I am not a statistician, but that feels like it's four or five standard deviations away from anything like normal weather patterns.
@mpesce
The 52.9C reading in Delhi may be incorrect and may be caused by a sensor error.
Here is a statement from the India Meteorological Department -
"The maximum temperature over Delhi NCR varied from 45.2° to 49.1°C in different parts of city, Mungeshpur reported 52.9°C as an outlier compared to other stations. It could be due to error in the sensor or the local factor. IMD is examining the data and sensors."
"Just because there exists a model that could read your organization’s entire Google Drive contents before answering each question doesn’t mean that’s a good idea."
A developer on Twitter has taken the discussion a step further by revealing that one of the flagship new features, Recall, doesn't require the presence of a powerful NPU after all.
Even at this early stage, though, Anthropic's research provides an exciting framework for making an LLM's "black box" results that much more interpretable and, potentially, controllable.
@mpesce one sort of wonders whether there are certain transformations that one could perform on the observed state vectors that transform it into for humans, normalized form, (similar to a coordinate system transformation in linear algebra) so various human concepts correspond to (0, 0, .., 1, 0, 0, …) vectors.
Insert lots of “…” quotes because I don’t think state vector etc are quite the right terms, trying to make a weak analogy here.