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Def Con convention to host thousands of white hat hackers put against generative AI
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Scheduled for August 10-13 in Las Vegas, the 2023 edition of the Def Con conference will host a major event entirely devoted to attacking large language models (LLM) employed by generative AI algorithms. The popular hacking convention will host an AI Village (AIV) initiative, with the first public generative AI…
DEF CON To Set Thousands of Hackers Loose On LLMs
For those participating in the red teaming this summer, the AI Village will provide laptops and timed access to LLMs from various vendors. Currently this includes models from Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Stability. The village people’s announcement also mentions this is “with participation from Microsoft,” so perhaps hackers will get a go at Bing. We’re asked for clarification about this. Red teams will also have access to an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI. There will be a capture-the-flag-style point system to promote the testing of “a wide range of harms,” according to the AI Village. Whoever gets the most points wins a high-end Nvidia GPU. The event is also supported by the White House Office of Science, Technology, and Policy; America’s National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate; and the Congressional AI Caucus.
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Three guys are sitting inside a Buick estate in rural America, being escorted out of town by local cops, hoping they can bring some normalcy back to their small town. This Buick is special. It’s got ten mics strapped to it: three on the outside and seven on the inside. Gaps near the windows are duct taped shut to lessen unwanted noise on the sweltering summer day, and the car has no air conditioning.
This is a story from the development of a neat little game called Pacific Drive, which we previewed on the site last week. During said preview, away from the gameplay demonstration, stray anecdotes detailing the team’s work with real American station wagons creeped out. It turns out the team went above and beyond to replicate the feel of a well-loved car.
“My parents, in an effort to get the safest car for their teenage son to drive, had a Volvo station wagon. That ended up being the car I drove around from the second I could drive until way way later,” Alex Dracott reminisces in our follow-up interview. “I have a lot of fond memories with it growing up in Portland, going to the beach, going out to tonnes of awesome places in the Pacific NorthWest area, it was a big deal.”