Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-04-09

About Us – Mozilla.aiMozilla.ai’s mission is to make developing trustworthy AI apps and products easy. To start we will focus on developing tools to build safety and transparency into the heart of recommendation systems and generative AI technologies. Richard Walter, the ‘Living Sherlock Holmes,’ Was a FraudWalter refused several requests for an interview. “You have […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-04-02

[2108.07258] On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation ModelsThough foundation models are based on standard deep learning and transfer learning, their scale results in new emergent capabilities,and their effectiveness across so many tasks incentivizes homogenization. Homogenization provides powerful leverage but demands caution, as the defects of the foundation model are inherited by all the adapted […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-03-26

nomic-ai/gpt4all: gpt4all: a chatbot trained on a massive collection of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialoguegpt4all: a chatbot trained on a massive collection of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue ‘Indirect prompt injection’ attacks could upend chatbotsIn response to a discussion of his team’s report on Hacker News Forum, Greshake said, […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-03-19

Bridge Saw Big Profits in African Education. Children Paid the Price.“Technically, we’re breaking the law,” May said in a 2013 article in the education publication Tes — a quote that was reused in a mostly favorable 2017 New York Times profile of Bridge. “There would be more people and more organizations willing to try and […]

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Brute Forcing Canvas Catalog

Canvas Catalog is a front-end Instructure sells so that institutions can create a storefront for courses held in Canvas. In our case, we’re starting to do some paid non-credit courses. While I had a variety of interactions with Catalog back at VCU, I wasn’t deeply involved and most of our goals were fairly linear. It’s […]

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