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What are Large Language Models?

In the realm of artificial intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming the linchpin, the foundational architecture that’s driving a new wave of innovation. If you’re a developer or a data scientist, you’ve likely encountered the acronyms and the buzz—GPT from OpenAI, Google’s PaLM2 (the underpinning of their Bard chatbot), and Falcon. These aren’t...

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Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view

LaMDA is Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, has claimed it is sentient. He’s been put on leave after publishing his conversations with LaMDA. If Lemoine’s claims are true, it would be a milestone in the history of humankind and technological development. Google strongly denies LaMDA has any sentient...

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Massive online surveillance by PenLink: Google is ‘best’, Apple ‘phenomenal’

A small Nebraska company called PenLink claims it does very good business with law enforcement agencies in the US and around the world. The company specializes in helping investigators monitor users of messenger services and social networks. Acting as an intermediate instance, they collect the data streams from Facebook, Google & Co. and passes them...

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What does GDPR mean in practise?

Many businesses thought that by adding Cookie consent banners to their web pages and opt-in forms for email newsletter subscriptions they have satisfied the GDPR requirements. As it turns out, this is not the case. There are rulings by the Datenschutzbehörde in Austria, CNIL in France and a court in Munich that show how far...

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