At CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg), we faced the challenge of evaluating vulnerabilities with only partial information often just a textual description.

To address this, we built an NLP model using the existing dataset from Vulnerability-Lookup. The entire solution has now been released, including integration into the free online service and the open-source code. With this model, you can obtain the VLAI vulnerability score even when no existing score is available, by assessing severity based solely on the description.

Authors: Shreya Johri, Jaehwan Jeong, Benjamin A. Tran, Daniel I. Schlessinger, Shannon Wongvibulsin, Zhuo Ran Cai, Roxana Daneshjou, Pranav Rajpurkar

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Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Authors: Joon Sung Park, Joseph C. O'Brien, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein

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A paper by: Lionel Wong, Gabriel Grand, Alexander K. Lew, Noah D. Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Tweets: https://twitter.com/gabe_grand/status/1672285672332312576

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For anyone following the AI space of technology - this is pretty cool - especially since AMD has fallen behind its NVIDIA CUDA competitors.

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Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms

Whether language models, large language models, or foundation models, transformers require significant computation for pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference. To help developers and organizations get the most performance bang for their infrastructure bucks, Hugging Face has long been working with hardware companies to leverage acceleration features present on their respective chips.

Today, we're happy to announce that AMD has officially joined our Hardware Partner Program. Our CEO Clement Delangue gave a keynote at AMD's Data Center and AI Technology Premiere in San Fr