Sarah Brady

Nov 24, 2024 | birdlife.org | Cathy Li |Sarah Brady |Noelle Kumpel

By Cathy Yitong Li, Sarah Brady, and Noelle Kumpel Two weeks of fraught UN climate change negotiations have concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan. Overrunning by 30 hours, tense disagreements over climate finance led to walkouts and ultimately inadequate outcomes. The final deal is far from addressing the scale, urgency and inequity of the climate emergency, especially for the most vulnerable communities, peoples and wildlife.

Nov 1, 2024 | birdlife.org | Sarah Brady

By Sarah Brady, Head of Campaign Strategy & Communications, BirdLife InternationalHope is the lifeblood of conservation, re-energising and reminding us that there is nothing more important than our fight to save nature. Thousands of you from all over the world joined us at the Biodiversity COP16 in spirit and in voice with your powerful messages calling for change.

Apr 3, 2024 | verdict.co.uk | Sarah Brady

New research from AI startup Anthropic has found weaknesses large language models (LLMs), that can override AI safety training. A technique, known as many-shot jailbreaking, exploits a fault in inputting prompts containing faux dialogues (also known as shots) where an AI assistant complies with harmful requests. A many-shot machine learning system requires a large dataset of examples to predict categories, as opposed to a one-shot system, which requires only one example to predict a category.

Mar 21, 2024 | verdict.co.uk | Sarah Brady

Sakana AI, founded by former Google researchers, introduces AI models developed through a unique method inspired by evolution and collective intelligence. The startup is led by David Ha and Llion Jones, both former Google researchers known for their contributions to deep learning architectures. The company has introduced Evolutionary Model Merge, a method that uses evolutionary techniques to combine different open-source models efficiently, creating new models with user-specified capabilities.

Mar 15, 2024 | verdict.co.uk | Sarah Brady

Mercedes-Benz and Apptronik have entered into a commercial agreement to pilot the latter’s Apollo humanoid robots in Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facilities. This partnership marks Apptronik’s first publicly announced commercial deployment of Apollo and the first application of humanoid robotics for Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz aims to use Apollo robots for logistics such as delivering parts to the production line for assembly and inspecting components.