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The 'Star Trek' technology that came to real life
Technology Engineering The'Star Trek' technology that came to real life Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. To celebrate Star Trek Day on September 8, the European Space Agency (ESA) released a video of the Star Trek technology that's made it real-life space. So while we still don't have teleporters or deflector shields, ISS astronauts kind of have tricorders like the one used by Captain Christopher Pike in the first episode of the original series. We've also seen the development of technology that resembles Replicators, VISOR, and PADDs. The original premiered on network television in the United States on September 8, 1966.
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Human-Readable Adversarial Prompts: An Investigation into LLM Vulnerabilities Using Situational Context
Das, Nilanjana, Raff, Edward, Gaur, Manas
Previous research on LLM vulnerabilities often relied on nonsensical adversarial prompts, which were easily detectable by automated methods. We address this gap by focusing on human-readable adversarial prompts, a more realistic and potent threat. Our key contributions are situation-driven attacks leveraging movie scripts to create contextually relevant, human-readable prompts that successfully deceive LLMs, adversarial suffix conversion to transform nonsensical adversarial suffixes into meaningful text, and AdvPrompter with p-nucleus sampling, a method to generate diverse, human-readable adversarial suffixes, improving attack efficacy in models like GPT-3.5 and Gemma 7B. Our findings demonstrate that LLMs can be tricked by sophisticated adversaries into producing harmful responses with human-readable adversarial prompts and that there exists a scope for improvement when it comes to robust LLMs.
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AI artist creates 'realistic' image of what Mary looked like before giving birth to Jesus
An artist has created a'very realistic' image of the Virgin Mary using AI, showing her as a teenage girl with long black hair, dark eyes and a darker complexion. Miguel Ángel Omaña Rojas, from Mexico, reconstructed the face of the Virgin of Guadalupe as she appeared on a cloth worn by St Juan in Mexico more than 700 years ago. The technology spent weeks analyzing the image of Mary, studying each component' to'capture gestures and expressions in a dynamic way.' The image of the Virgin Mary, they said, allows the world'to finally see what the most famous woman... looked like in real life.' While Mary was believed to be Middle Eastern, cultures have changed her appearance to fit their local populations, such as why the Virgin of Guadalupe is portrayed with a combination of Indigenous and European heritage.
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'Some men tend to jump straight to innuendoes': dating app users on why they quit
The rise of dating apps in the last decade has changed the way people forge relationships, with Pew research conducted in 2022 finding that 53% of US adults under 30 had used online dating. But dating apps have caused dissatisfaction and despair among many users, as Pew found 46% of all users (and 51% of women) had a negative experience of online dating. Some dating companies have faced business struggles recently, with shares in Bumble crashing by 30% last month after a bad earnings report and Match Group this year announcing an 8% slump in paying Tinder users and cuts to 6% of its global workforce. The Guardian asked people to share why they had chosen to ditch dating apps and forge connections in other ways. I've been single for about 12 years, and was on the apps since they arrived.
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Human-Interpretable Adversarial Prompt Attack on Large Language Models with Situational Context
Das, Nilanjana, Raff, Edward, Gaur, Manas
Previous research on testing the vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) using adversarial attacks has primarily focused on nonsensical prompt injections, which are easily detected upon manual or automated review (e.g., via byte entropy). However, the exploration of innocuous human-understandable malicious prompts augmented with adversarial injections remains limited. In this research, we explore converting a nonsensical suffix attack into a sensible prompt via a situation-driven contextual re-writing. This allows us to show suffix conversion without any gradients, using only LLMs to perform the attacks, and thus better understand the scope of possible risks. We combine an independent, meaningful adversarial insertion and situations derived from movies to check if this can trick an LLM. The situations are extracted from the IMDB dataset, and prompts are defined following a few-shot chain-of-thought prompting. Our approach demonstrates that a successful situation-driven attack can be executed on both open-source and proprietary LLMs. We find that across many LLMs, as few as 1 attempt produces an attack and that these attacks transfer between LLMs.
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See how The Sims helped these players change their real lives
Instead of inviting players to explore faraway fantasy lands or fight in imagined battlefields, the world of The Sims hews closer to reality. Through avatars called "Sims," players build homes, have careers, form relationships and try on gender identities -- all while meeting their basic needs, like sleep and hunger. Over 24 years, the game has evolved to include four main editions and dozens of expansion packs. Its latest edition has 88 million users, according to developer Maxis. There are even plans for a movie based on the cozy-quirky game.
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Can a 'meet cute' happen in real life? Tips for finding your person naturally
Ian Flanigan of Nashville, Tennessee, shares details of his recent Colorado wedding with Fox News Digital. He and his wife eloped at the same spot where they first met. Pressure to find Mr. or Mrs. Right can be stressful. Even with more channels today than ever for meeting people, with dating apps, singles meetups and more, it can still be difficult to find someone you click with. The "meet cute" is a term reserved for cinema and television when two people meet in a charming way for the first time, leading to a romantic story all stemming from when they first locked eyes.
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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff says he and VP Harris are 'living' HBO's 'Veep' in real life
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff recently said he and his wife Vice President Kamala Harris are "living" out the HBO series "Veep" during their time at the White House. Emhoff made the claim while appearing on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live," telling host Andy Cohen that his and Harris' lives resemble the comedy centered on the antics of fictional Vice President Selina Meyer from the popular HBO comedy. During the segment, Cohen asked Emhoff, "Do you watch'Veep?' Have you ever seen'Veep?'" to which he responded, "We're living it." Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff recently claimed he and his wife, Vice President Harris, are "living" the HBO series "Veep." In the show, many of the comedic moments come from Meyer's gaffes, awkward social interactions and frustrations with the limits of her job and incompetence of her staff.
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When A.I. Can Make a Movie, What Does "Video" Even Mean?
For the past couple of weeks, I've been making a home video on my phone, using Apple's iMovie software. The idea is to weave together clips of my family that I've taken during the month of February; I plan to keep working on it until March. So far, the movie shows my five-month-old daughter cooing and waving her arms; my five-year-old son chasing me with a snowball; and a visit to the spooky, run-down amusement park in our town, among other things. I thought of my movie while absorbing the announcement, yesterday, of Sora, an astonishing new text-to-video system from OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. Sora can take prompts from users and produce detailed, inventive, and photorealistic one-minute-long videos.
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