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Researchers at ETH Zurich created a jailbreak attack that bypasses AI guardrails

A pair of researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, have developed a method by which, theoretically, any artificial intelligence (AI) model that relies on human feedback, including the most popular large language models (LLMs), could potentially be jailbroken.Jailbreaking is a colloquial term for bypassing a device or system’s intended security

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OpenAI Attracts Google Researchers by Offering Massive $10M Package

Despite the market slowdown, OpenAI continues with aggressive hiring by strategically leveraging the growing interest in AI technology. OpenAI is said to be presenting substantial compensation packages, reaching as high as $10 million, to entice top researchers away from Google, as per a report from The Information. This marks OpenAI’s

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Researchers claim Bitcoin experiment generated almost 300% higher returns than hodling

A team of academic researchers from the International Hellenic University and Democritus University of Thrace in Greece recently published a paper supporting the “efficient market hypothesis” (EMH) for Bitcoin (BTC) trading.EMH is a controversial theory that the researchers claim contributed to the development of models capable of outperforming the hodl

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Arbitrum Voters Complain Over Pitch to Pay Pro Researchers Like ‘Harvard Lawyers’

According to a proposed breakdown of costs, Trail of Bits would receive $800,000 for an engineer to review proposals for 32 weeks over the course of a year. Gauntlet, meanwhile, requested $327,000 for "15 quantitative researcher weeks," and Blockworks requested $780,000 "for a minimum 13 analyst weeks per quarter." Source

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Researchers in China developed a hallucination correction engine for AI models

A team of scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and Tencent’s YouTu Lab have developed a tool to combat “hallucination” by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Hallucination is the tendency for an AI model to generate outputs with a high level of confidence that don’t appear based on

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Researchers develop Crypto Literacy Scale to measure consumer financial awareness

A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati recently developed a Crypto Literacy Scale (CLS) to help standardize and measure economic and financial knowledge as it relates to consumer and policy-maker understanding of cryptocurrencies and related technology.The team’s research paper, titled “Measuring Crypto Literacy,” details the gap between traditional

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Researchers develop blockchain verification service for cultural artifacts

Computer scientist Adel Khelifi, of the University of Abu Dhabi, and archaeologist Mark Altaweel, from University College London, recently announced the development of a Web3-based verification-as-a-service model for determining and recording the authenticity and provenance of cultural artifacts. Called Salsal, the big idea behind the service is to bridge the world

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AI researchers say they’ve found a way to jailbreak Bard and ChatGPT

United States-based researchers have claimed to have found a way to consistently circumvent safety measures from artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard to generate harmful content. According to a report released on July 27 by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for AI Safety in San Francisco,

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