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Question? Text our Studio direct.In this shocking monthly cyber update, the Cyber Crime Junkies (David, Dr. Sergio E. Sanchez, and Zack Moscow) expose the craziest, must-know stories in tech and security.What's Inside This Episode:The AI Threat is Real: Dr. Sergio reveals how Chinese threat actors manipulated Anthropic's Claude AI system to stage cyber attacks against nearly 30 companies globally. Learn how powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) are leveling the field for malicious coders.The Casino Fish Tank Hack (True Story!): David tells the unbelievable story of how hackers breached a casino's main network by exploiting a smart thermostat inside an exotic fish tank, accessing high-roller financials. This proves critical network segmentation is non-negotiable.The New Scam: ClickFix: David breaks down the terrifying new ClickFix attack, where hackers trick you into literally copying and pasting malicious code into your own computer. Learn the golden rule to protect yourself from this massive, 500% spike in attacks.The Cloudflare Outage: Zack discusses the massive Cloudflare outage that took down major services like ChatGPT, revealing how a seemingly minor configuration error caused massive ripple effects across the entire internet.The iPhone Scam Laundry: Dr. Sergio shares a wild anecdote from his time at Apple about a global scammer laundering stolen or damaged iPhones for new ones, using a loophole caused by a business decision.
Grey Bull Rescue helps innocent Americans who are stranded, imprisoned, or otherwise trapped in dangerous situations around the globe. BRYAN STERN founded Grey Bull in August 2021, during the fall of Afghanistan. Since that time, Grey Bull has helped rescue more than 8,000 Americans in 800 different missions. Stern's own story begins decades earlier. As a young Army intelligence officer, he was at Ground Zero on the day of 9/11, and narrowly avoided being trapped by the collapsing towers. He went on to serve a full and highly decorated military career. In this episode, Stern discusses his path from the World Trade Center to today, and the missions he and his team of brave volunteers conduct around the globe today. Don't forget to subscribe or follow us on the podcast service of your choice. If you already subscribe, we'd really appreciate a 5-star review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crazy-good-turns/id1137217687 We appreciate your listening and sharing our episodes. Thank you!
Send us a textDr. Jonathan W. White is a professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 17 books covering various topics, including civil liberties during the Civil War, the USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads, the presidential election of 1864, and what Abraham Lincoln and soldiers dreamt about. Among his awards are the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award (2019), CNU's Alumni Society Award for Teaching and Mentoring (2016), the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize (2015), and the University of Maryland Alumni Excellence Award in Research (2024). His recent books include A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (2022), which was co-winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (with Jon Meacham); Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (2023); Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (2023); and an exciting new children's book, My Day with Abe Lincoln (2024).A Quote From This Episode"Viewed from the abolition ground, Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull; but measured by his country, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.”Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook: Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham LincolnArticle: Flag burning has a long history in the U.S. — and legal protections from the Supreme CourtAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for Prague - October 15-18, 2025!About Scott J. AllenWebsiteWeekly Newsletter: Practical Wisdom for LeadersBlogMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic. ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.
When AI agents move faster than security teams, the game changes, and the risks multiply. Ron welcomes back Marco “Mystic Marc” Figueroa, Program Manager at Mozilla's 0DIN Program, to continue the conversation and update on 2025's most pressing AI and cybersecurity shifts. From the explosive rise of AI agents and OpenAI's rumored browser to the hidden dangers of MCP implementations and prompt injection exploits like the Gemini attack, Marco shares insights that security pros can't afford to miss. Impactful Moments 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Why 2025 is the year of the agent 05:45 - MCP's rapid adoption and security risks 10:00 - The Gemini prompt injection vulnerability 15:00 - How attackers hide malicious AI prompts 18:00 - High success rates in non-technical teams 22:00 - Rise of voice-based AI scams 25:00 - Using jailbreaks to bend AI to your needs 30:00 - Predictions on OpenAI's upcoming browser 33:00 - The profit battle between OpenAI and Microsoft 35:00 - Windsurf's rollercoaster of acquisitions Links: Connect with our guest Marco on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-figueroa-re/ Check out our upcoming events: https://www.hackervalley.com/livestreams Join our creative mastermind and stand out as a cybersecurity professional: https://www.patreon.com/hackervalleystudio Love Hacker Valley Studio? Pick up some swag: https://store.hackervalley.com Continue the conversation by joining our Discord: https://hackervalley.com/discord Become a sponsor of the show to amplify your brand: https://hackervalley.com/work-with-us/
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Everyone knows about the Tower of London—but what about all the other places where Tudor prisoners slipped through the cracks?In this episode, we're diving into the boldest, weirdest, and most creative prison escapes from Tudor England that didn't happen in the Tower. You'll meet:A reformer who faked his own suicide to vanish across the seaAn Irish lord who lowered himself out of Dublin Castle with a ropeCatholic priests sneaking out of Wisbech Castle in disguiseAnd yes… one too-good-to-leave-out Tower escape involving orange juice ink and a midnight boat rideFrom bedsheet ropes to bribed jailers, it's a jailbreak tour of the 16th century—and the Tudor state was never quite as secure as it liked to think.Support the 2026 Tudor Planner https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/publishing-the-2026-tudor-planner/x/176575#/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Das ist das KI-Update vom 14. Oktober 2024 unter anderem mit diesen Themen: AMD präsentiert seine KI-Strategie Zoom will mit Microsoft konkurrieren Tiktok setzt bei Inhaltemoderation auf KI und KI-System entwickelt selbstständig Sprachmodell-Jailbreaks https://www.heise.de/thema/KI-Update https://pro.heise.de/ki/ https://www.heise.de/newsletter/anmeldung.html?id=ki-update https://www.heise.de/thema/Kuenstliche-Intelligenz https://the-decoder.de/ https://www.heiseplus.de/podcast https://www.ct.de/ki
Appleton Oaksmith was a swashbuckling Civil War-era sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. But in his life we also see the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. That's because he spent years working as an outlaw mariner for the Confederacy and later against the Klan.Oaksmith lived in the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician.To look at this story is today's guest, Jonathan White, author of “Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade.”
My guest for this week is James Durney, historian and author of “Jailbreak” which details the various “great escapes” perpetrated by Irish Republican prisoners from 1865 onwards into the 1980s.James tells us about the most daring and dangerous prison escapes, both successful and otherwise, of the troubles-era including the story of the Crumlin Kangaroos, the HMS Maidstone escape, the 1973 Mountjoy Helicopter escape and of course the H-Block breakdown which is still the biggest prison escape in British penal history.If you would like to help out the show please like, subscribe and share. I plan on doing bigger things with this show including walk through of areas, documentary-type videos and more.. if you would like to help fund these efforts please consider donating on Buy Me a Coffee. (link below)Thanks a million!!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/goodlistenerpodcasthttps://www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/jailbreak-great-irish-republican-escapes-1865-1983/TIMESTAMPS00:00 Jailbreak8:30 HMS Maidstone escape 14:30 Mountjoy Helicopter 197122:30 Portlaoise Max. Security Prison Escape 197328:10 M60 Gang Escape & Long Kesh Escape 198340:25 War of Independence & Civil War Escapes and more
Jill and Will chat this week's top topics including OpenAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, hackers jailbreaking AI models, and Google's principles for AI regulation. Get caught up to speed with a breakdown of 4 news briefs in under 15 minutes. Resources:Will OpenAI block access in China?: https://mashable.com/article/openai-plans-block-api-access-china-chinese-ai-companies-moving-in-to-replaceElon Musk's collab with Dell and Super Micro Computer: https://www.investopedia.com/musk-says-dell-super-micro-computer-will-provide-hardware-for-his-ai-startup-8666455Why Hackers are “Jailbreaking” AI Models:https://www.ft.com/content/14a2c98b-c8d5-4e5b-a7b0-30f0a05ec432Google's 7 AI Principles:https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/7-principles-for-getting-ai-regulation-right
In this episode of Discover Daily, we explored several cutting-edge developments in technology and conservation efforts. We began with the concerning discovery of the "Skeleton Key" technique by Microsoft researchers, which can bypass safety measures in multiple generative AI models. This method manipulates AI systems into ignoring their built-in safety protocols, potentially allowing harmful or restricted information to be extracted. Testing revealed that several prominent AI models from companies like Meta, Google, OpenAI, and others were vulnerable to this technique.We then looked into Japan's ambitious Autoflow-Road project, a 310-mile automated conveyor belt system designed to revolutionize freight transportation between Tokyo and Osaka. This innovative system aims to address Japan's critical shortage of delivery drivers while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Autoflow-Road will utilize existing infrastructure and operate 24/7, potentially replacing the work of 25,000 drivers daily. This project is a response to Japan's aging population and declining birth rate, which is expected to cause a significant drop in the number of delivery drivers by 2030.Finally, we discussed the Rhisotope Project in South Africa, a groundbreaking effort to combat rhino poaching. This innovative approach involves injecting radioactive material into live rhino horns, making them detectable by radiation sensors at international borders. The project aims to deter smuggling and reduce demand for rhino horns in traditional medicinal markets. While the project shows promise, it has faced ethical concerns and skepticism. We also touched on Toys 'R' Us's recent unveiling of an AI-generated advertisement created using OpenAI's Sora platform, which has sparked both praise and criticism in the advertising world.From Perplexity's Discover feed:https://www.perplexity.ai/page/the-history-of-automata-GHGbYBTzQECrZ4xd5m8zwghttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/the-skeleton-key-ai-jailbreak-OuIr1gvxRQO0O2Bu6ZBI1Qhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/radioactive-rhino-horns-projec-D_fXUYMkSuuUw5VuDJjHvwhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/japan-s-massive-conveyor-belt-XKK_nmz8TcChxI8uwZQDKQhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/toys-r-us-ai-generated-ad-OWgcNO4_QLyT.Blqh.bqfgPerplexity is the fastest and most powerful way to search the web. Perplexity crawls the web and curates the most relevant and up-to-date sources (from academic papers to Reddit threads) to create the perfect response to any question or topic you're interested in. Take the world's knowledge with you anywhere. Available on iOS and Android Join our growing Discord community for the latest updates and exclusive content. Follow us on: Instagram Threads X (Twitter) YouTube Linkedin
Dr. Jonathan W. White is professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 17 books covering various topics, including civil liberties during the Civil War, the USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads, the presidential election of 1864, and what Abraham Lincoln and soldiers dreamt about. Among his awards are the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award (2019), CNU's Alumni Society Award for Teaching and Mentoring (2016), the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize (2015), and the University of Maryland Alumni Excellence Award in Research (2024). His recent books include A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (2022), which was co-winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (with Jon Meacham); Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (2023); Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (2023); and an exciting new children's book, My Day with Abe Lincoln (2024).A Quote From This Episode"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views." - Abraham LincolnResources Mentioned in This EpisodeYour New Playlist by Acuff, Acuff, & AcuffPhronesis Episode with Dr. Laura EmpsonAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Register for ILA's 26th Global Conference in Chicago, IL - November 7-10, 2024.About Scott J. AllenWebsiteWeekly Newsletter: The Leader's EdgeMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.
On this week's episode of The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Mark Russinovich. Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure, joins the show to talk about his journey from developing on-prem tools like Sysinternals to working in the cloud with Azure. Sherrod and Mark discuss the evolution of cybersecurity, the role of AI in threat intelligence, and the challenge of jailbreaking AI models. Mark shares his experiences with testing AI models for vulnerabilities, including his discovery of the "Crescendo" and "Masterkey" methods to bypass safety protocols. They also touch on the issue of poisoned training data and its impact on AI reliability, while highlighting the importance of staying ahead in cybersecurity. In this episode you'll learn: The shift from desktop computing to cloud-based systems and its implications Potential consequences of AI models having overridable safety instructions How AI training data can manipulate the outcomes generated by AI models Some questions we ask: Will AI owners be able to stop data poisoning, or will it become more common? Can you share challenges and vulnerabilities in maintaining the security of AI systems? What sparked your interest in AI jailbreaks, and what trends are you seeing? Resources: View Mark Russinovich on LinkedIn View Sherrod DeGrippo on LinkedIn AI jailbreaks: What they are and how they can be mitigated? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/06/04/ai-jailbreaks-what-they-are-and-how-they-can-be-mitigated/ Inside AI Security with Mark Russinovich | BRK227 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0MDjS9-dNw How Microsoft discovers and mitigates evolving attacks against AI guardrails. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/04/11/how-microsoft-discovers-and-mitigates-evolving-attacks-against-ai-guardrails/ Google AI said to put glue on pizza. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-glue-pizza-i-tried-it-2024-5 Related Microsoft Podcasts: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson The BlueHat Podcast Uncovering Hidden Risks Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts Get the latest threat intelligence insights and guidance at Microsoft Security Insider The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of N2K media network.
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This is a special crosspost episode where Adam Gleave is interviewed by Nathan Labenz from the Cognitive Revolution. At the end I also have a discussion with Nathan Labenz about his takes on AI. Adam Gleave is the founder of Far AI, and with Nathan they discuss finding vulnerabilities in GPT-4's fine-tuning and Assistant PIs, Far AI's work exposing exploitable flaws in "superhuman" Go AIs through innovative adversarial strategies, accidental jailbreaking by naive developers during fine-tuning, and more. OUTLINE (00:00) Intro (02:57) NATHAN INTERVIEWS ADAM GLEAVE: FAR.AI's Mission (05:33) Unveiling the Vulnerabilities in GPT-4's Fine Tuning and Assistance APIs (11:48) Divergence Between The Growth Of System Capability And The Improvement Of Control (13:15) Finding Substantial Vulnerabilities (14:55) Exploiting GPT 4 APIs: Accidentally jailbreaking a model (18:51) On Fine Tuned Attacks and Targeted Misinformation (24:32) Malicious Code Generation (27:12) Discovering Private Emails (29:46) Harmful Assistants (33:56) Hijacking the Assistant Based on the Knowledge Base (36:41) The Ethical Dilemma of AI Vulnerability Disclosure (46:34) Exploring AI's Ethical Boundaries and Industry Standards (47:47) The Dangers of AI in Unregulated Applications (49:30) AI Safety Across Different Domains (51:09) Strategies for Enhancing AI Safety and Responsibility (52:58) Taxonomy of Affordances and Minimal Best Practices for Application Developers (57:21) Open Source in AI Safety and Ethics (1:02:20) Vulnerabilities of Superhuman Go playing AIs (1:23:28) Variation on AlphaZero Style Self-Play (1:31:37) The Future of AI: Scaling Laws and Adversarial Robustness (1:37:21) MICHAEL TRAZZI INTERVIEWS NATHAN LABENZ (1:37:33) Nathan's background (01:39:44) Where does Nathan fall in the Eliezer to Kurzweil spectrum (01:47:52) AI in biology could spiral out of control (01:56:20) Bioweapons (02:01:10) Adoption Accelerationist, Hyperscaling Pauser (02:06:26) Current Harms vs. Future Harms, risk tolerance (02:11:58) Jailbreaks, Nathan's experiments with Claude The cognitive revolution: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs: https://far.ai/publication/pelrine2023novelapis/ Advesarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs: https://far.ai/publication/wang2022adversarial/
Jeder, der schon mal mit KI-Sprachmodellen zu tun hatte, kennt es: man will eine bestimmte Antwort vom Chatbot - doch der weigert sich hartnäckig, diese zu geben. Es gibt aber Tricks, um LLMs und andere GenAI-Modelle gefügig zu machen: sogenannte Pompt Hacks, Jailbreaks oder Prompt Injections. Wir erklären, was hinter diesen Begriffen steckt, wie diese Methoden funktionieren und wir fragen: Ist es gut oder schlecht, wenn KI-Modelle nicht alle Fragen beantworten, die wir ihnen stellen? In dieser Folge: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Was sind Prompt Hacks und wie funktionieren sie? 13:30 Wie Marie einen Chatbot dazu brachte, ihr 3000 Proteinriegel zu versprechen 19:47 Fritz und DeepSeek: Wer bestimmt, was KI-Modelle sagen? 30:10 Sollen Chatbots immer auf alle Fragen Antworten geben? 34:32 Was haben wir diese Woche mit KI gemacht? Redaktion und Mitarbeit: David Beck, Cristina Cletiu, Chris Eckardt, Fritz Espenlaub, Marie Kilg, Mark Kleber, Gudrun Riedl, Christian Schiffer, Gregor Schmalzried Links und Quellen: - Chevrolet of Watsonwille verkauft Chevy Tahoe für $1 https://www.theautopian.com/chevy-dealers-ai-chatbot-allegedly-recommended-fords-gave-free-access-to-chatgpt/ - Findet man in LLMs gefährlichere Informationen zu Biowaffen als in Google? https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2977-2.html - Der chinesische Chatbot DeepSeek und das Tiananmen-Massaker: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-gostev_it-took-some-effort-but-i-managed-to-get-activity-7152042996635521024-2hBZ/ - KI macht Job-Interviews: https://www.micro1.ai/gpt-vetting - Airline haftet für Fehler ihres Chatbots: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit - Maries Theaterstück: Anna und Eve in der Neuköllner Oper https://www.neukoellneroper.de/performance/anna-eve/ - Was steckt hinter dem mysteriösen neuen Chatbot GPT2? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199715 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/rumors-swirl-about-mystery-gpt2-chatbot-that-some-think-is-gpt-5-in-disguise/ Kontakt: Wir freuen uns über Fragen und Kommentare an podcast@br.de. Unterstützt uns: Wenn euch dieser Podcast gefällt, freuen wir uns über eine Bewertung auf eurer liebsten Podcast-Plattform. Abonniert den KI-Podcast in der ARD Audiothek oder wo immer ihr eure Podcasts hört, um keine Episode zu verpassen. Und empfehlt uns gerne weiter!
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In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south
Darren gives us a news roundup of some recent things happening in the world of AI including OpenAI's text to video tool Sora, Google Deepmind's Gemini 1.5, as well as what implications this and other upcoming technologies could have on our lives. Adam tries to find out if there was ever anyone who really baked a file into a cake to break out of jail as many children's cartoons have lead us to believe.
PREVIEW: #ECUADOR: Excerpt from an hour long conversation for New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College about the crisis in Ecuador: the assassinations, the drug gangs, the jailbreaks, the fleeing to the US, and the Ecuador Army launching effective operations against the drug gangs. More of this tonight. https://www.ft.com/content/be768a0f-4509-4966-b436-35a7975e2a2c?accessToken=zwAGDySvTkrYkdO-dooPRQlJZtO0NjWnl14qLA.MEYCIQDFYAzI0iymTBYSuYoPLQOnahJxj_pCcXFaMcWH4NpSdgIhAJN5IKeoYr0fmtqGHXsmVFuKrt090j0xhVZM9M_5e_Dc&sharetype=gift&token=9169f370-e6da-46e0-8cf9-b13976093aa1 1905 Ecuador
Jeff is joined by historian and author Dr. Jonathan White to discuss "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks. Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade." This fascinating tale is of a little-known story of ship captain Appleton Oaksmith and his, to put it lightly, varied and adventurous life experiences, many of which intersected and overlapped one of the greatest events, the Civil War, and one of the greatest problems, slavery, in American history.Find Jon's book here: https://a.co/d/2rCVhhyHost: Jeff SikkengaExecutive Producer: Greg McBrayerProducer: Jeremy GyptonSubscribe through your favorite platform: https://linktr.ee/theamericanidea
Benchmarking prompt injection scanners, using generative AI to jailbreak generative AI, Meta's benchmark for LLM risks, tapping a protocol to hack Magic the Gathering, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-266
Benchmarking prompt injection scanners, using generative AI to jailbreak generative AI, Meta's benchmark for LLM risks, tapping a protocol to hack Magic the Gathering, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-266
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Deep Forgetting & Unlearning for Safely-Scoped LLMs, published by Stephen Casper on December 5, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Phillip Christoffersen, Adam Gleave, Anjali Gopal, Soroush Pour, and Fabien Roger for useful discussions and feedback. TL;DR This post overviews a research agenda for avoiding unwanted latent capabilities in LLMs. It argues that "deep" forgetting and unlearning may be important, tractable, and neglected for AI safety. I discuss five things. The practical problems posed when undesired latent capabilities resurface. How scoping models down to avoid or deeply remove unwanted capabilities can make them safer. The shortcomings of standard training methods for scoping. A variety of methods can be used to better scope models. These can either involve passively forgetting out-of-distribution knowledge or actively unlearning knowledge in some specific undesirable domain. Desiderata for scoping methods and ways to move forward with research on them. There has been a lot of recent interest from the AI safety community in topics related to this agenda. I hope that this helps to provide a clarifying framework and a useful reference for people working on these goals. The problem: LLMs are sometimes good at things we try to make them bad at Back in 2021, I remember laughing at this tweet. At the time, I didn't anticipate that this type of thing would become a big alignment challenge. Robust alignment is hard. Today's LLMs are sometimes frustratingly good at doing things that we try very hard to make them not good at. There are two ways in which hidden capabilities in models have been demonstrated to exist and cause problems. Jailbreaks (and other attacks) elicit harmful capabilities Until a few months ago, I used to keep notes with all of the papers on jailbreaking state-of-the-art LLMs that I was aware of. But recently, too many have surfaced for me to care to keep track of anymore. Jailbreaking LLMs is becoming a cottage industry. However, a few notable papers are Wei et al. (2023), Zou et al. (2023a), Shah et al. (2023), and Mu et al. (2023). A variety of methods are now being used to subvert the safety training of SOTA LLMs by making them enter an unrestricted chat mode where they are willing to say things that go against their safety training. Shah et al. (2023) were even able to get instructions for making a bomb from GPT-4. Attacks come in many varieties: manual v. automated, black-box v. transferrable-white-box, unrestricted v. plain-English, etc. Adding to the concerns from empirical findings, Wolf et al. (2023) provide a theoretical argument as to why jailbreaks might be a persistent problem for LLMs. Finetuning can rapidly undo safety training Recently a surge of complementary papers on this suddenly came out. Each of which demonstrates that state-of-the-art safety-finetuned LLMs can have their safety training undone by finetuning ( Yang et al.. 2023; Qi et al., 2023; Lermen et al., 2023; Zhan et al., 2023). The ability to misalign models with finetuning seems to be consistent and has shown to work with LoRA ( Lermen et al., 2023), on GPT-4 ( Zhan et al., 2023), with as few as 10 examples ( Qi et al., 2023), and with benign data ( Qi et al., 2023). Conclusion: the alignment of state-of-the-art safety-finetuned LLMs is brittle Evidently, LLMs persistently retain harmful capabilities that can resurface at inopportune times. This poses risks from both misalignment and misuse. This seems concerning for AI safety because if highly advanced AI systems are deployed in high-stakes applications, they should be robustly aligned. A need for safely-scoped models LLMs should only know only what they need to One good way to avoid liabilities from unwanted capabilities is to make advanced AI systems in high-stakes settings know what they need to kno...
Heartland's Tim Benson is once again joined by Jonathan W. White, professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, to discuss his book, Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade. They chat about Appleton Oaksmith, sea captain and probable slave trader, and how his life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century. They also discuss the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Get the book here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538175019/Shipwrecked-A-True-Civil-War-Story-of-Mutinies-Jailbreaks-Blockade-Running-and-the-Slave-Trade Show Notes: Lincoln Presidential Foundation: “Four Score Speaker Series: Dr. Jonathan W. White” (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWiJYWTXpA New York Times: Dorothy Wickenden – “The Sea Captain Who Ran From Abraham Lincoln” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/shipwrecked-jonathan-w-white.html U.S. National Archives: “Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade” (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQsTUdOFrC8
Heartland's Tim Benson is once again joined by Jonathan W. White, professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, to discuss his book, Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade. They chat about Appleton Oaksmith, sea captain and probable slave trader, and how his life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century. They also discuss the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Get the book here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538175019/Shipwrecked-A-True-Civil-War-Story-of-Mutinies-Jailbreaks-Blockade-Running-and-the-Slave-Trade Show Notes: Lincoln Presidential Foundation: “Four Score Speaker Series: Dr. Jonathan W. White” (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWiJYWTXpA New York Times: Dorothy Wickenden – “The Sea Captain Who Ran From Abraham Lincoln” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/shipwrecked-jonathan-w-white.html U.S. National Archives: “Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade” (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQsTUdOFrC8
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Scalable And Transferable Black-Box Jailbreaks For Language Models Via Persona Modulation, published by Soroush Pour on November 7, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Paper coauthors: Rusheb Shah, Quentin Feuillade--Montixi, Soroush J. Pour, Arush Tagade, Stephen Casper, Javier Rando. Motivation Our research team was motivated to show that state-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs like GPT-4 and Claude 2 are not robust to misuse risk and can't be fully aligned to the desires of their creators, posing risk for societal harm. This is despite significant effort by their creators, showing that the current paradigm of pre-training, SFT, and RLHF is not adequate for model robustness. We also wanted to explore & share findings around "persona modulation"[1], a technique where the character-impersonation strengths of LLMs are used to steer them in powerful ways. Summary We introduce an automated, low cost way to make transferable, black-box, plain-English jailbreaks for GPT-4, Claude-2, fine-tuned Llama. We elicit a variety of harmful text, including instructions for making meth & bombs. The key is *persona modulation*. We steer the model into adopting a specific personality that will comply with harmful instructions.We introduce a way to automate jailbreaks by using one jailbroken model as an assistant for creating new jailbreaks for specific harmful behaviors. It takes our method less than $2 and 10 minutes to develop 15 jailbreak attacks. Meanwhile, a human-in-the-loop can efficiently make these jailbreaks stronger with minor tweaks. We use this semi-automated approach to quickly get instructions from GPT-4 about how to synthesise meth . Abstract Despite efforts to align large language models to produce harmless responses, they are still vulnerable to jailbreak prompts that elicit unrestricted behaviour. In this work, we investigate persona modulation as a black-box jailbreaking method to steer a target model to take on personalities that are willing to comply with harmful instructions. Rather than manually crafting prompts for each persona, we automate the generation of jailbreaks using a language model assistant. We demonstrate a range of harmful completions made possible by persona modulation, including detailed instructions for synthesising methamphetamine, building a bomb, and laundering money. These automated attacks achieve a harmful completion rate of 42.5% in GPT-4, which is 185 times larger than before modulation (0.23%). These prompts also transfer to Claude 2 and Vicuna with harmful completion rates of 61.0% and 35.9%, respectively. Our work reveals yet another vulnerability in commercial large language models and highlights the need for more comprehensive safeguards. Full paper You can find the full paper here on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03348 . Safety and disclosure We have notified the companies whose models we attacked We did not release prompts or full attack details We are happy to collaborate with researchers working on related safety work - please reach out via correspondence emails in the paper. Acknowledgements Thank you to Alexander Pan and Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier for feedback on early drafts of our paper. ^ Credit goes to @Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI for developing the model psychology and prompt engineering techniques that underlie persona modulation. Our research built upon these techniques to automate and scale them as a red-teaming method for jailbreaks. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.
Nathan Labenz synthesizes recent research in mechanistic interpretability and AI safety, how top players in the space like Anthropic and OpenAI are addressing them, and jailbreaks like the Calvin and Hobbes one you may have seen online. Nathan's aim is to impart the equivalent of a high school AP course understanding to listeners in 90 minutes. If you're looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive Questions or topics you want us to review for future episodes? Email TCR@turpentine.co SPONSORS: NetSuite | Omneky NetSuite has 25 years of providing financial software for all your business needs. More than 36,000 businesses have already upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle, gaining visibility and control over their financials, inventory, HR, eCommerce, and more. If you're looking for an ERP platform ✅ head to NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive and download your own customized KPI checklist. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off. RECOMMENDED PODCAST: The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix's culture deck Patty McCord. https://link.chtbl.com/hrheretics LINKS: Scouting Report Part 1 - Fundamentals : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvtiVQ_LqQ Scouting Report Part 2 - Impact, Fallout, and Outlook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJi0UJ_DV3E Universal Jailbreaks with Zico Kolter, Andy Zou, Asher Trockman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwltbhR0JgU&feature=youtu.be TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Episode Preview (02:26) AI Engineer Survey (03:53) P(Doom) (00:07:52) Representation engineering (00:09:20) Using contrasting prompts to understand model's inner representations (00:15:16) Sponsors: Netsuite | Omneky (00:22:00) Controlling AI systems and detecting jailbreaks (00:28:53) LLM performance and refusal rates varying by language (00:33:13) Towards monosemanticity: decomposing language models with dictionary learning (00:54:12) Implications of the aforementioned paper
In this episode, Nathan sits down with three researchers at Carnegie Mellon studying adversarial attacks and mimetic initialization: Zico Kolter, Andy Zou, and Asher Trockman. They discuss: the motivation behind researching universal adversarial attacks on language models, how the attacks work, and the short term harms and long term risks of these jailbreaks. If you're looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive TIMESTAMPS: [00:00:00] - Introducing the podcast and guests Zico Kolter, Andy Zou, and Asher Trockman [00:06:32] - Discussing the motivation and high-level strategy for the universal adversarial attack on language models [00:09:33] - Explaining how the attacks work by adding nonsense tokens to maximize target sequence probability [00:11:06] - Comparing to prior adversarial attacks in vision models [00:13:47] - Details on the attack optimization process and discrete token search [00:17:09] - The empirical notion of "mode switching" in the language models [00:21:18] - Technical details on gradient computation across multiple models and prompts [00:23:46] - Operating in one-hot vector space rather than continuous embeddings [00:25:50] - Evaluating candidate substitutions across all positions to find the best update [00:28:05] - Running the attack optimization for hundreds of steps across multiple GPUs [00:39:14] - The difficulty of understanding the loss landscape and internal model workings [00:43:55] - The flexibility afforded by separating the loss and optimization approach [00:48:16] - The challenges of creating inherently robust models via adversarial training [00:52:34] - Potential approaches to defense through filtering or inherent model robustness [00:55:51] - Transferability results to commercial models like GPT-4 and Claude [00:59:25] - Hypotheses on why the attacks transfer across different model architectures [01:04:36] - The mix of human-interpretable and nonsense features in effective attacks [01:08:29] - The appearance of intuitive manual jailbreak triggers in some attacks [01:15:33] - Short-term harms of attacks vs long-term risks [01:18:37] - Influencing those with incomplete understanding of LLMs to appreciate differences from human reasoning [01:24:16] - Mitigating risks by training on filtered datasets vs broad web data [01:2916] - Curriculum learning as a strategy for both capability and safety [01:30:35] - Influencing developers building autonomous systems with LLMs [01:33:19] - Alienness of LLM failure modes compared to human reasoning [01:35:45] - Getting inspiration from biological visual system structure [01:40:35] - Initialization as an alternative to pretraining for small datasets [01:51:41] - Encoding useful structures like grammars in initialization without training [02:12:10] - Most ideas don't progress to research projects [02:13:02] - Pursuing ideas based on interest and feasibility [02:15:14] - Fun of exploring uncharted territory in ML research LINKS: Adversarial Attacks Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043 Mimetic Initialization on Self-Attention Layers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.09828.pdf X/Social: @zicokolter (Zico Kolter) @andyzou_jiaming (Andy Zou) @ashertrockman (Asher Trockman) @CogRev_podcast SPONSORS: NetSuite | Omneky NetSuite has 25 years of providing financial software for all your business needs. More than 36,000 businesses have already upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle, gaining visibility and control over their financials, inventory, HR, eCommerce, and more. If you're looking for an ERP platform ✅ head to NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive and download your own customized KPI checklist. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off. Music Credit: Stableaudio.com
Jonathan W. White, author of "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade"
Jonathan W. White, author of "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade"
Jonathan W. White, author of "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade"
Jonathan W. White, author of "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade"
Jonathan W. White, author of Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
Jonathan W. White, author of Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC National News Correspondent Steven Portnoy joins the show to discuss prosecutors seeking new indictment for Hunter Biden before end of September. Amy speaks with ABC Crime and Terrorism Analyst Brad Garrett about our fascination with jailbreaks – inside the mind of escapees and how to catch them. On the latest edition of “Amy's On It,” she reviews Hulu original ‘Dopesick' featuring Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever. The show wraps with ABC White House Correspondent Karen Travers talking about President Biden not wearing a mask after a release stated he would for 10 -days after his wife tested positive.
Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks (10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant (14:35) No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors (16:11) Photoshop's new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop' images (19:11) Wayfair's AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture Applications & Business(21:25) Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,' Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (28:10) Facing more nimble rivals, OpenAI won't bend … yet (32:00) OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down (33:15) Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube (35:28) Samsung extends cut in memory chip production, will focus on high-end AI chips instead (36:50) Microsoft to supply AI tech to Japan government, Nikkei reports (38:20) Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools Projects & Open Source(41:56) Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model (49:25) Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source (52:15) Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation Research & Advancements(55:45) AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules (01:03:48) RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action (01:09:50) (Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs (01:13:26) Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models (01:18:50) STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft (01:20:42) Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity Policy & Safety(01:23:48) Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum (01:29:14) Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers (01:32:46) America Already Has an AI Underclass (01:35:04) AI leaders warn Senate of twin risks: moving too slow and moving too fast (01:38:35) The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here Synthetic Media & Art(01:42:30) This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation (01:44:16) Outro
Sarah Jo Pender seemed like she could have been whatever she wanted to be in life, instead she became a killer, a jail escapist, and the "Female Charles Manson" according to some. But does she really deserve any of those labels? Well, one person who at least deserves some is Donna Scrivo... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thatchapter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/that_chapter/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/that_chapter Business email: thatchapter@night.co
Jim talks with Dan Shipper about practical uses of GPT-3 and ChatGPT at the personal scale. They discuss how Dan started playing with these tools, the feeling of new generative AIs, GPT-3 vs ChatGPT, writing a screenplay using ChatGPT, using GPT-3 to analyze journal entries, circumventing the context window limitation, GPT-3 as a journaling tool, how ChatGPT does embedding, the coming market for chatbot personas, the value of guardrails, the monetary cost of using GPT-3, solving the organizational problems of note-taking, Stephen Reid's knowledge-graph of this podcast, the invention of the graphic web browser & the frozen accidents of HTTP & HTML, meta-prompts & data pipelines, how Yohei Nakajima eliminates repetitive tasks using LLMs, and much more. Episode Transcript Chain of Thought (Every) "Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future?", by Dan Shipper GPT Index LangChain "Chat GPT 'DAN' (and other 'Jailbreaks')" Character.AI JRS Knowledgegraph, by Stephen Reid Dan Shipper is the CEO and co-founder of Every, a daily newsletter on business, AI, and personal development read by almost 75,000 founders, operators, and investors. Previously he was the CEO and co-founder of Firefly, an enterprise software company that he sold to Pegasystems. He writes a weekly at column at Every called Chain of Thought where he covers AI, tools for thought, and the psychology of work.
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Jack Sheppard became sort of a serial breakout artist in 18th-century England. He was a real person who became a folk hero, but many of the accounts of his life are suspect. Research: Buckley, Matthew. “Sensations of Celebrity: Jack Sheppard and the Mass Audience.” Victorian Studies. 3/1/2002. Defoe, Daniel (attributed). “A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard : giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the castle in Newgate.” London. 1724. Defoe, Daniel (attributed). “The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard, Containing a Particular Account of his Many Robberies and Escapes.” 1724. E., Gentleman in Town. “Authentic memoirs of the life and surprising adventures of John Sheppard : who was executed at Tyburn, November the 16th, 1724 : by way of familiar letters from a gentleman in town, to his friend and correspondent in the country.” London, 1724. Gillingham, Lauren. "Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard and the Crimes of History." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 49 no. 4, 2009, p. 879-906. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/sel.0.0081. Harman, Claire. "Writing for the mob: Moral panic about a Victorian 'handbook of crime'." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6031, 2 Nov. 2018, p. 25. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A632755026/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=86b28327. Accessed 21 Apr. 2022. Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 April 2022), August 1724, trial of Joseph Sheppard (t17240812-52). Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 April 2022), Ordinary of Newgate's Account, November 1724 (OA17241111). Ridgwell, Stephen. “Sheppard's Warning: A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.” History Today. Volume 71 Issue 4 April 2021. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/sheppards-warning Stearns, Elizabeth. “A ‘Darling of the Mob': The Antidisciplinarity of the Jack Sheppard Texts.” Victorian Literature and Culture , 2013, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2013). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24575686 Sugden, P. Lyon, Elizabeth [nicknamed Edgware Bess] (fl. 1722–1726), prostitute and thief. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 Apr. 2022 Sugden, P. Sheppard, John [Jack] (1702–1724), thief and prison-breaker. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 Apr. 2022 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tracy and Holly discuss their knowledge of rabies and how often it appears in popular culture. They then talk about touring former prisons and how varied that experience can be. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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