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In today’s Tracker:

  • 🧪 Research highlights: Bridging the Cyber Gap: New AI Model Weaves Vulnerability Web

  • 🚨 Industry news: Intel's AI Chip Revolution: Boosting Brainpower for the Future of Computing

  • ⚖️ Policy and regulation: Italian Watchdog Sharpens Its Gaze Post-ChatGPT Ban

  • 🌐 AI and society: China Grapples with Deepfake Fraud

  • 🧰 Tool of the day: Toucan: The Writing Companion That Makes Your Life Easier

  • 🧠 Let’s get smart with AI: Kernel Method: The Unseen Bridge of Data Transformation."

🔐 Bridging the Cyber Gap: New AI Model Weaves Vulnerability Web

A team of researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the Department of Energy, Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Boise State University have developed an artificial intelligence model to enhance cybersecurity.

Using natural language processing and supervised learning, the model combines three distinct cybersecurity databases containing information about vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and attack patterns.

As a result, it can automatically associate vulnerabilities with specific attack vectors that cybercriminals may use to compromise computer systems.

This could assist cyber defenders in more effectively identifying and preventing intrusions.

Despite the current lack of labeled data for training, the model has already demonstrated an accuracy of up to 87% in linking vulnerabilities to appropriate weaknesses and up to 80% in linking deficiencies to attack patterns.

The AI work is open source, with a portion of the code currently available on GitHub and the remainder to be released shortly.

🧠 Intel's AI Chip Revolution: Boosting Brainpower for the Future of Computing

As part of a broader shift in company strategy, Intel Corp. has revealed specifics about its forthcoming AI processors.

Under the Nervana brand, these new processors will have a dedicated processing core for matrix operations commonly performed in AI-related computations.

According to Intel, the H100 chips will conduct AI tasks approximately 30 times faster than the current generation.

In addition, they will utilize the identical fundamental interface as the company's central processing units, enabling them to integrate more seamlessly with existing software.

Intel also stated that its new chip-making technology would enable it to produce processors with over a trillion transistors. Large cloud-computing customers are anticipated to have access to the first H100 chips later this year.

🚫 Italian Watchdog Sharpens Its Gaze Post-ChatGPT Ban

In the wake of a temporary prohibition on the ChatGPT model, Garante, Italy's data protection regulator, plans to investigate other AI systems in the country.

Concerns about the AI's ability to generate inappropriate content led to the temporary ban on ChatGPT, lifted when the model was updated to manage such issues better.

The incident has prompted Garante to consider the broader implications of AI use in Italy. The watchdog will comprehensively evaluate all other artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the country to ensure they adhere to privacy and ethical standards.

This regulatory scrutiny highlights the increasing need for effective oversight in the swiftly evolving field of artificial intelligence.

💸 China Grapples with Deepfake Fraud

As a result of a recent deep fake scheme that has shaken the nation, AI-driven fraud concerns in China are intensifying. Using deep fake technology, fraudsters imitated a client's voice and convinced an executive to wire 2 million yuan (approximately $315,000).

The incident, promptly reported to the police, emphasizes the growing danger of deep fakes - AI-generated audio-visual representations becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from the authentic human output.

These concerns highlight the urgent need for legal frameworks and technological tools to identify and combat the increasingly sophisticated misuse of deepfake technology.

🦜 Toucan: The Writing Companion That Makes Your Life Easier

Toucan is an AI writing app designed to make it easy and quick for authors to create unique, high-quality content. Its numerous characteristics enable Toucan to assist with various tasks, including creative writing, language translation, marketing copywriting, data analysis, and even creating AI images from text.

Learn more about the tool here.

🖥️ Kernel Method: The Unseen Bridge of Data Transformation."

In machine learning, the kernel method is a technique for transforming complex, nonlinear data into a simplified, higher-dimensional space to make it more manageable for algorithms.

Essentially, it transforms data that does not initially appear to be separable into data that is separable. The kernel function acts as a conduit between these complex data and an algorithm that functions optimally with linearly separable data.

The primary advantage of the kernel method is that it enables machine learning models to solve more complex problems without significantly increasing their computational complexity.

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