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System Prompting Could Make or Break AI Alignment

TL;DR System prompting is a powerful guardrail to help ensure the alignment of AI, but will it be able to withstand the test of time?

By @OurAI [ 6 Min read ]

Now, imagine if you were to make that choice for another person. How would you strike a balance between keeping themselves responsible for their actions while making sure that they still have the nominal freedom to live their own lives within the drawn-up rules?..

How We Turned the iPhone into a Laboratory Microscope with AI and BLE

TL;DR Discover how an iPhone was transformed into a powerful laboratory microscope for real-time blood cell analysis using ML, Bluetooth and GRBL controller

By @hacker33457372 [ 22 Min read ]

In this article, I want to share my experience developing an iOS application for a robotic microscope with AI-based blood cell recognition — how it’s built, the challenges we had to tackle, the pitfalls we encountered, and how the iPhone can be used as a laboratory tool.

Thermal State..

BarbaricBoot Is the Mass Reboot Tool Your IT Department Didn’t Know It Needed

TL;DR BarbaricBoot: Reboot like a barbarian. No more click-by-click. No more hesitation. Just pure, parallel power.

By @barberion [ 4 Min read ]

BarbaricBoot is not for the timid. Use it responsibly, wield it wisely, and remember: with great power comes great responsibility. May your reboots be swift, your logs clean, and your endpoints ever-compliant!..

Pixels, Paperbacks, and Power

TL;DR This essay traces the evolution of censorship from the Soviet-era suppression to modern, more sophisticated digital manipulation and deepfakes.

By @vladimir [ 10 Min read ]

Indeed, modern digital technology has given censors unprecedented power over information flow, while simultaneously creating new, more sophisticated methods of content manipulation that make the heavy-handed bans of the past seem quaint by comparison...

What 300GB of AI Research Reveals About the True Limits of “Zero-Shot” Intelligence

TL;DR A study finds multimodal AI models like CLIP need exponential data for linear gains—raising questions about zero-shot generalization claims.

By @fewshot [ 6 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Vishaal Udandarao, Tubingen AI Center, University of Tubingen, University of Cambridge, and equal contribution;

(2) Ameya Prabhu, Tubingen AI Center, University of Tubingen, University of Oxford, and equal contribution;

(3) Adhiraj Ghosh, Tubingen AI Center, University of Tubingen;

(4) Yash Sharma, Tubingen AI Center, University of Tubingen;..

Additional Stories of your interest:

-Beyond the Prototype: 15 Hard-Earned Lessons to Ship Production-Ready AI Agents

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