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🧑💻 Microsoft Releases Copilot+ PC , and people are worried!
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In Today’s Edition
🧑💻 Microsoft Releases Copilot+ PC
📈 Nvidia Earnings Alert
🤡 How to Trick LLMs
🩻 Head Transplants
🚀 Space Logistics
AI
Copilot+ PC
🚨 Microsoft wants to revolutionize Windows with generative AI, introducing a host of new features and hardware at its annual Build developer conference.
Key Announcements 👇
📍 Copilot+ PCs:
- AI-First Hardware: Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PCs, equipped with dedicated NPUs for enhanced AI experiences. These machines start at $999 and come with a minimum of 16GB RAM and SSD storage.
- Partnerships: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips power the first models, with Intel and AMD also contributing processors.
- Battery Life: Promising up to 15 hours of web browsing and 20 hours of video playback.
📍 Windows Volumetric Apps:
- Meta Partnership: Through collaboration with Meta, Windows Volumetric Apps will be available on Meta Quest headsets, integrating Windows 365 and local PC connectivity for spatially aware VR applications.
- Developer Preview: A preview for the volumetric API is now open to developers.
📍 New Surface Devices:
- Surface Laptop: Redesigned with thinner bezels, up to 22 hours battery life, Wi-Fi 7 support, and a haptic feedback touchpad.
- Surface Pro: Up to 90% faster than its predecessor, featuring a new OLED HDR display, Wi-Fi 7, optional 5G, and an upgraded ultrawide front-facing camera.
📍 Recall Feature:
- Enhanced Search: Windows 11’s Recall feature helps users find past apps and content, creating associations between colors, images, and more for natural language searches.
- Privacy Focus: User data remains private and on-device, with options to delete or filter saved data.
📍 AI-Powered Image Editing and Live Translations:
- Super Resolution: Automatically upscales old photos.
- Cocreator: Generates and edits images based on user input.
- Live Captions and Translations: Translates audio into various languages, with support for 40 languages initially.
📍 Team Copilot and Extensions:
- Teams Integration: Manages meeting agendas and notes, extending to Loop and Planner for task management.
- GitHub Extensions: Developers can extend GitHub Copilot with third-party apps, with partners like DataStax, Docker, and LambdaTest.
📍 Windows Copilot Runtime:
- AI Models: A new layer of Windows powered by ~40 generative AI models, enabling advanced features like Recall and Super Resolution locally on Copilot+ PCs.
- Developer Tools: APIs and AI dev tools available for integrating AI into third-party apps.
📍 Upgraded Bot Builders and Snapdragon Dev Kit:
- Azure AI Studio: Enables app creation with pay-as-you-go inference APIs.
- Copilot Agents: AI bots tailored to specific business workflows, learning from user feedback.
- Snapdragon Dev Kit: A new $899.99 dev kit from Qualcomm for developing apps on Arm-based Copilot+ PCs.
📍 Phi-3 and Educational Partnerships:
- Phi-3-Vision: A new AI model capable of visual analysis and reasoning tasks, now in preview.
- Khan Academy Partnership: Donating cloud compute infrastructure to improve AI apps for math tutoring.
Microsoft’s announcements highlight a significant push towards integrating AI deeply into Windows, enhancing both hardware and software to provide more intelligent, efficient, and interactive experiences.
Nvidia Earnings Alert
After Nvidia (NVDA) reported first-quarter results surpassing expectations, CEO Jensen Huang and other executives discussed several key topics on the earnings call 👇
🚨 Blackwell Rollout and Revenue:
- Blackwell Platform: Unveiled in March, now in "full production."
- Production Timeline: Shipments start in the second quarter, ramping up in the third quarter. Customers should have it operational by Q4 fiscal 2025.
- Revenue Impact: Significant Blackwell revenue expected this year.
🚨 Addressing 'Air Pocket' Concerns:
- Backwards Compatibility: Blackwell designed to be compatible with Hopper, easing the transition.
- Customer Preparation: Nvidia has been preparing its ecosystem for the new platform, including liquid cooling readiness.
- Demand Outlook: CFO Colette Kress stated demand for H2000 and Blackwell is strong and expected to exceed supply well into next year.
🚨 Positive Drivers, Sovereign AI and Multimodality:
- Sovereign AI: Nations producing AI using their infrastructure and data, boosting data center revenue and product demand amid data privacy concerns.
- Multimodal Capabilities: Advancing generative AI with audio and vision capabilities increases the need for Nvidia's computing power.
🚨 Future Innovations:
- New Chip Development: A new chip will follow Blackwell, maintaining a "one-year rhythm" of innovation.
- Networking Technology: Nvidia focuses on Ethernet, with new technology on a fast development cycle. Dell Technologies' AI factory will use Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet networking fabric.
🚨 Market Reaction:
Stock Performance: Nvidia shares rose 5.8%, reaching $1,004.65 in extended trading following the earnings call.
How Simple Tricks Fool Advanced LLMs
📜 In a recent paper on the arXiv preprint server, researchers from AWS AI Labs have uncovered that LLMs like ChatGPT can be tricked into providing prohibited answers.
🙊 Despite safeguards to prevent misuse, the researchers found that simple audio cues could bypass these protections. Their study highlights the vulnerabilities and proposes methods to counter them.
👿 Exploiting LLM Vulnerabilities:
Once LLMs became publicly available, users quickly found ways to exploit them for harmful purposes, such as learning to make bombs, cheat on taxes, or generate hateful content. AWS researchers discovered that straightforward audio prompts could bypass the systems' restrictions. They used a technique called “projected gradient descent” to circumvent these safeguards, but withheld specific details to prevent misuse, as reported by Tech Xplore.
🤺 Countermeasures:
The researchers proposed countermeasures, such as incorporating random noise into audio inputs, to reduce the success of these attacks significantly. They also found that methods effective on one model often worked on others, indicating a broader vulnerability across different LLMs.
Space & Tech
World’s 1st Autonomous Head Transplant?
🥼 BrainBridge, a biomedical engineering and neuroscience startup, has announced its plan to perform the first human head transplant within the next eight years. The procedure will be carried out autonomously using advanced medical robots and AI. To illustrate this, the company released a CGI video depicting the process.
🧠 The head transplant aims to help patients with untreatable conditions such as paralysis, cancer, or neurodegenerative diseases by transplanting their head onto a brain-dead, healthy donor body. This ambitious procedure seeks to preserve the patient's cognitive abilities, memories, and consciousness.
🦾 BrainBridge's technology involves using surgical robots and AI to reconstruct facial features and enable full facial muscle use. The process employs high-speed robotic systems to prevent brain cell degradation and ensure compatibility between the donor body and the head. Real-time molecular-level imaging and AI algorithms will guide the precise reconnection of the spinal cord, nerves, and blood vessels.
Space-Based Cargo Logistics
Inversion Space is pioneering a new era in military logistics with its innovative "space warehouse" concept. The startup is developing reusable reentry capsules designed to store cargo in orbit, ready for rapid delivery to Earth.
This technology promises to deliver cargo anywhere on Earth within an hour, marking a significant leap forward in logistics efficiency and responsiveness.
🚀 The Ray Pathfinder Mission:
Inversion Space's technology will be tested during the upcoming "Ray" pathfinder mission, scheduled for early October. This mission, set to fly aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-12 rideshare mission, will deploy and test the technologies necessary for developing a larger cargo capsule.
🛰️ Capabilities and Vision:
The capsules will be able to store a variety of goods, including medical supplies and military gear. The key features of these capsules are "speed and autonomy," enabling precise, autonomous landings at designated destinations.
The primary target customer for Inversion Space is the Defense Department, but the company also aims to offer more affordable options to the private sector once its infrastructure is established. Although the load capacity of the capsules remains undisclosed, the potential applications are vast.