July 2, 2024
Can anything that is programmable have an embedded LLM? Apparently so. llama.ttf is a plain old font that looks like Open Sans—you can download it and install it. We don’t know whether this is a massive vulnerability or a way to embed AI in almost any text-based application. Probably both.
It may just be a coincidence, but several new programming languages have come on the scene in the past month or two. Why? This probably isn’t backlash against automated programming. (An LLM obviously can’t be trained for a language without much public source code.)
Artificial Intelligence
- This is crazy. llama.ttf is a font that embeds a (small) large language model. The font itself can do automatic text generation. It relies on the HarfBuzz font shaping engine, which uses Wasm. It works in Gimp; it may also work in Chrome and Firefox. Everything runs locally.
- Researchers are finding that conversations with an AI can help to dispel beliefs in conspiracy theories. (This paper notes that it is preliminary and not yet peer-reviewed. All of the data for their research will be posted when it is complete.)
- The Podman AI Lab is a good way for Linux users to experiment with running AI locally. Unsurprisingly, Podman is container-based, which simplifies moving models from a desktop environment into a production environment.
- Researchers have developed a BERT-based model to detect malicious ...
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