MIT Technology Review is reporting that Kelly Shen, an MIT alumna, is working in art intelligence at Sotheby’s, where she builds algorithms to predict art prices and manage real-time bidding systems. Shen, a double major in computer science and math, also volunteers for MIT as a class officer and with the Association of MIT Alumnae.
The publication also highlights that a fundamental flaw makes large language models (LLMs) vulnerable to attacks, allowing them to be tricked into performing unauthorized actions. Separately, Anthropic has discovered a hidden space within its Claude LLM where the AI processes concepts, using a new technique to probe its internal workings.
In other news, a European fertility group is advocating for limits on sperm donations, citing instances where donor-conceived individuals have found hundreds of siblings. Additionally, MIT Technology Review notes that artificial intelligence is more likely than humans to develop biases in hiring processes, even generating new stereotypes beyond its training data.
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