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6 posts tagged “ai”.
Decisions have real-world consequences in global security. Lives can be on the line, and teams are under considerable pressure to make the right call. As it becomes harder to know what's true, your credibility matters more than ever. AI is rapidly improving, but it still makes mistakes. Striking a balance is a moving target. How much should you use AI for security tasks? How do you know if it's pr
Read more →I’m constantly churning on ideas. The ones I don’t have time to process during the day have a habit of resurfacing late at night. My notebooks are jammed with random fragments, sketches and musings. These days I find myself jotting down fewer ideas and tossing more to AI. I enjoy the brainstorming buddy, and I spin up prototypes on the fly. AI loves to riff, and who am I to resist. But AI makes id
Read more →Tibo Sottiaux runs the Codex team at OpenAI, and he previously worked at Google DeepMind. He posted quite the comment on X about his former employer's head start with generative AI: I was part of that team. Basically ChatGPT one year before it came out.… Google was too nervous to release it, and DeepMind was blocked from shipping products that could disrupt Google. I think about this a lot. — Tibo
Read more →I've talked with a lot of people who experiment with AI, get poor results and conclude that it's not good enough. Deeply skeptical, they keep AI at arm's length and resist learning how to work with it. AI still gets a lot of things wrong, but the better mindset is to hold yourself accountable for the result. Treat errors as data points, not verdicts. Did I provide enough information for the model
Read more →Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell told a story that grabbed my attention. In a fireside chat at the Silicon Valley Security Group’s (SVSG) Create conference last week, he explained how an unnamed AI startup was beginning to produce strategic intelligence on par with expert CIA analysis. He had tested it himself with questions about Iran. "I have no doubt that AI can do the kind of quality
Read more →As we say at Factal, facts save lives. From severe weather and wildfires to shootings and regional conflicts, it’s critical that first responders, security professionals and anyone in harm’s way have access to fast, accurate information. But the quality of real-time information is deteriorating. Social media is becoming increasingly polluted with noise, misinformation and AI-generated deception. R
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