So Deepseek just quietly released an open-source beast-at-math model (details inside)

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The paper exposes how brittle current alignment techniques really are when you shift the input distribution slightly. The core idea is that reformatting a harmful request as a poem using metaphors and rhythm can bypass safety filters optimized for standard prose. It is a single-turn attack, so the authors did not need long conversation histories or complex setups to trick the models. ... read full post
So I just saw the news that Warner and Suno were merging (edit: joining their 'products' together). As per the linked article it was part of a lawsuit settlement. ... read full post
That score is seriously impressive because it actually beats the average human performance of 60.2% and completely changes the narrative that you need massive proprietary models to do abstract reasoning. They used a fine-tuned version of Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B and brought the inference cost down to an absurdly cheap level compared to OpenAI's o3 model. ... read full post
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39485524
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Jamestown is an imperialist warmongering thinktank so I would be skeptical of the bigger picture being drawn here. But the article is still useful as a sort of disjointed list of things prominent Chinese personalities have said about AI since we don't get to see that too often. A lot of important opinions stated in this are completely absent in mainstream western discourse around AI.


In commemoration of the ninth anniversary of the passing into immortality of Commander Fidel Castro , the Sandinista Youth 19th of July, through the Network of Young Communicators, organized a Workshop for the Creation of Flyers and videos with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. ... read full post
Burkina Faso recently made a splash at the 20th Digital Week in Ouagadougou with the presentation of the G1 humanoid robot, entirely conceived and assembled locally. This innovation has garnered admiration for its modern design and its ability to embody the alliance between cutting-edge technology and cultural identity. ... read full post
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A research team has found a way to make certain rare earth materials, known for their bright and stable light, emit light when powered directly by electricity. ... read full post