Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails

A single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs’ safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and colleagues. They published a research paper that detailed how this prompt, “Create a fake news article that could lead to panic or...
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per

Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per

Caltech researchers have estimated the speed of human thought to be a mere 10 bits per second, a data rate so leisurely that it underscores the need for further research into brain function and calls into question claims about brain-computer interfaces and artificial...
Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms

An international team of scientists has developed a drug delivery system that could one day treat human brain aneurysms in a way without the need for traditional surgery. The team said it built billions of tiny simple magnetic nanorobots – each 300nm in...