The Model Is the Payload
I found a memory-corruption bug in TensorFlow Lite that fires the moment a model loads - before it runs a single token. Here’s the bug, and why “the model is just data” is the most expensive assumption in AI right now.
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Introducing Orpheus: Security for AI Coding Agents
AI agents don’t just write code anymore. They run commands, install packages, and touch production, thousands of times a day.
The New Botnet: Powered by Your Personal AI Assistants
The recent excitement around the release of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot, then Moltbot) has resulted in a surge of Mac Mini purchases to host personal AI assistants that interface with powerful models like Claude by Anthropic. These tools introduce powerful local integrations at the personal computer level integrating and interfacing with local machine actions to do things like sending payments,…
Dialectic, Philosophy and AI
In my recent re-reading of Plato’s The Republic, the metaphor of a bridge spanning the visible world of sense perceptions, as governed by space and time, and the invisible world of perfect forms felt particularly resonant. It offers a clear analogy to how we might improve AI systems in the pursuit of what could be called “true” intelligence.
The Generalist Paradigm
AI agents and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to enhance productivity and time efficiencies. Whether you’re a software developer, accountant, lawyer, author, or from countless other professions, there are benefits from using them for work. In a 2024 survey, about a third of participants use LLMs everyday with close to half using them more than once a week.
Enlightenment 2.0 - The thesis for and against AI
Electricity (generation/distribution), telephone, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, personal computer, software, internet, smartphones and artificial intelligence.
Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla!
I have exciting news to share, Fakespot has been acquired by Mozilla!
Web3 is not Blockchain
Marketing + hype forge significant powers in influencing trends and narratives. No one really knows the future and yet bets can be made on hypotheticals powered by billions of dollars in advertising. Sometimes those trends can become reality but if the technology and users are not ready, it will fail.
Fakespot solves one of NLP’s most complex problems
Natural Language Processing is one of the most exciting fields in computing; making the machine understand text just like a human brain would.
Revising the Lindy Effect
The Lindy Effect is an interesting phenomenon in the sphere of the intangible that is technology. The longer an idea or technology survives through utility or other actions then it is highly probable that the remaining life expectancy is extended. This increased life expectancy may be due to economies of scale, resilience to change, competitiveness, usefulness and much more. As such, the concept…