You may be aware that a large language model (LLM) is trained on data, but did you know that there is a multi-billion-dollar industry of human data labelling that supports this? Behind every LLM lies an invisible workforce that toils away, labelling files, images and videos to help train the AIs. A large language model…
Addiction to gambling is common: over 2% of UK adults being problem gamblers. Gamblers frequently bet irrationally in several ways. In the “illusion of control”, people wrongly believe they can influence the outcome of a random or chance-based event, such as a slot machine or dice roll. The “gambler’s fallacy” is the irrational belief that…
I saw a disturbing image today. Not something from a war zone or a horror film, but a post on Linkedin: Microsoft have, in their wisdom, introduced a large language model (LLM)-driven AI helper to Excel called Copilot. After entering “=copilot( )”, you can type in any text you like within the brackets, and Excel…
It is now almost three years since the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI on an unsuspecting world. In this time large language models (LLMs) have had some significant impacts. Over half of all venture capital investment is now related to artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia, which makes the graphics processing units that power most AI searches,…
Large language models (LLMs), the engines at the heart of generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are susceptible to various kinds of attack by hackers. For example, prompt injection is where an attacker fills a prompt with malicious input to either leak data or bypass controls. There are actually many other types…