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“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes In the spirit of that famous quote join us for an IT Consultation (1st Session is FREE) to avert disaster and save time and money in the use of technology in your business. Have you bought IT equipment or applications that were bad or didn't work well with each other? Let us help you plan your organisations technology in an agnostic way so that you can use those saved funds and time to grow your business instead! In this remote consultation session you will meet with an experienced IT Professional who will assist you in planning your technology requirements including in IT & Cybersecurity. Bring as much information as possible to the meeting to help us plan effectively. Our consultations are just for discussion & planning, they are not for setting things up or training or more detailed IT or Cybersecurity - for those please book an IT Support session via cyberkite.com.au/booksession Note: You can book Michael Plis (Cyberkite Founder) to attend public online discussions and forums as a on-stage speaker or participant using this bookable session. For those bookings - costs can be different & can be negotiated depending on the offer and length of time. We look forward to meeting with you soon! Booking Details: ---------------------- * Fee: 1st 30min session is FREE. Consequent Sessions: Starting at $57 walk-in remote rate for 30 minute increment and then at reduced hourly rate and capped off with day remote rate of 7.5 hours at $450. Invoice emailed after session & prices include GST. * New & Walk-in Customers: All paid sessions must be paid in advance. We will issue you an invoice. * After booking: You get a confirmation by email and SMS. * Remote appointments require Zoom downloaded and installed: https://zoom.us/download on any device. But we can use alternative options. * Extra Time? Yes, just ask our IT Consultant.

"One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help." - Robert Kiyosaki Do you really want to waste time trying to save money by fixing this IT or Cybersecurity issue or getting that IT device setup for work by yourself? Save time and effort by booking an IT Support session with a business IT Professional! The IT Support session (remotely via Zoom) is a casual session for resolving IT issues, adjusting or setting up new or existing devices. You will receive help from an experienced & caring IT Professional who will do everything possible over the remote session to assist you. If the problem requires onsite visit they will arrange a follow up visit onsite (if it's in Greater Melbourne) or recommend a local IT professional in your city. Generally though with a bit of live video guidance, we can assist with most IT matters. We look forward to helping you with you IT! Booking Details: ---------------------- * Fee: 10 minute over-the-phone assessment is at no charge prior to the paid session. Starting at $57 walk-in remote rate for 30 minute increment and then at reduced hourly rate and capped off with day remote rate of 7.5 hours at $450. Regular customers on Service Agreements at $22 rate per 15 minute increment. Invoice emailed after session & prices include GST. * New & Walk-in Customers: All paid sessions must be paid in advance. We will issue you an invoice. * After booking: You get a confirmation by email and SMS. * Remote appointments require Zoom downloaded and installed: https://zoom.us/download on any device. But we can use alternative options. * Extra Time? Yes, just our IT Professional.

In today's AI landscape, the allure of generative AI extends beyond cloud services to local installations on personal computers. This blog delves into the benefits and practicalities of bringing this cutting-edge technology directly to your device, offering a glimpse into the future of AI accessibility and innovation. We'll explore the fundamentals of local generative AI, from understanding the underlying models to navigating installation processes with user-friendly tools like LM Studio. By demystifying the complexities and offering practical guidance, we aim to empower readers to embark on their own AI exploration journey. Whether you're a novice or an enthusiast, join us as we unlock the potential of generative AI, right at your fingertips. Bringing AI Power to Your Device Many are familiar with generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard, typically accessed through cloud services. However, there's a way to tap into this technology directly on your own computer. Installing generative AI locally offers privacy benefits and eliminates concerns about capacity or availability issues. Plus, it's just plain cool to have that kind of power at your fingertips. Understanding the Basics To embark on this journey, you'll need both a program to run the AI and a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate responses. These LLMs serve as the backbone of text generation AI, with GPT-4 driving ChatGPT and Google Gemini. While delving into the realm of LLMs may seem daunting, they essentially function as supercharged autocorrect engines, trained on vast amounts of data to recognize relationships between words and sentences. Exploring Available Models There's a variety of LLMs you can install locally, including those released by Meta (like LLaMa) and others developed by researchers and volunteers. Publicly available LLMs aim to foster innovation and transparency, making them accessible to a broader audience. For this guide, we'll focus on LM Studio, a user-friendly option for installing LLMs on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. LM Studio Capabilities & System Requirements With LM Studio, you can ... 🤖 - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline 👾 - Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server 📂 - Download any compatible model files from HuggingFace 🤗 repositories 🔭 - Discover new & noteworthy LLMs in the app's home page LM Studio supports any ggml Llama, MPT, and StarCoder model on Hugging Face (Llama 2, Orca, Vicuna, Nous Hermes, WizardCoder, MPT, etc.) Minimum requirements: M1/M2/M3 Mac, or a Windows PC with a processor that supports AVX2. Linux is available in beta. Setting Up LM Studio Getting started with LM Studio involves downloading the software from the official website and ensuring your system meets the minimum requirements, such as sufficient RAM and VRAM. Once installed, you can explore and download LLMs within the application. LM Studio simplifies the process by recommending notable LLMs and providing options to filter and manage installed models. With LM Studio, you can engage in prompt-based interactions with the selected LLM, controlling various settings to tailor the AI's responses to your preferences. Embarking on AI Exploration With local LLMs up and running, the possibilities for AI-driven interactions are vast. While delving deeper into LLM development may require additional learning, LM Studio streamlines the setup process, even for beginners. Whether you're curious about AI technology or eager to experiment with text generation, harnessing generative AI locally offers a fascinating glimpse into the future of human-computer interaction. Future of local AI models The future of local AI models will keep growing. They'll become lighter and easier to install and run on software that you can feed data as simply as adding documents to feed the beast. I envision each person customising their own AI chatbot with the knowledge that they have gathered in their personal documents and personal beliefs. For example, I would like to feed it with Bible and publications that matter to me and my own files and have a digital assistant that I can talk with and study with and learn from my own knowledge and knowledge that matters to me which sometimes gets lost in files on the computer. Remember humans and and animals and our surroundings matter more than training AI models always find the time to go outside and smell the roses as it were. Happy AI learning Michael Plis References LM Studio https://lmstudio.ai/ You Can Run a Generative AI Locally on Your Computer https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-run-generative-ais-locally-on-your-computer

🧩 Cybersecurity Tip 🧩 Google Drive has very good search options, and I've been trying to figure out whether a client can search all the files and folders they shared with the public or "anyone with the link". This blog explores how to do it. After reviewing all the options, I've discovered a few tips that might be useful for you. If you're a OneDrive user, there might be something similar. Show all publically shared files and folders Type this in google drive in desktop operating systems not android or ios. Reveal publicly shared files and folders: 2. See all publicly shared FILES and FOLDERS by you in Google Drive: owner:me sharedwith:public 2. See all publicly shared FOLDERS by you on Google Drive: owner:me sharedwith:public type:folder And then all you have to do is click on the three dots menu and select Share > Share and remove the "Anyone with the link" under General access section If you don't want it to be visible to the rest of the world. You might have created these links to share it on your website or to a wider audience. Show all stuff you shared with everyone other than yourself or outside your organisation I would suggest save these two above links as bookmarks and repeat that for the sharedwith: external to see who else you shared some files with outside the Workspace organization or outside your own account. Further Options for "sharedwith:" search handle Find documents a specific Google Workspace account or group has access to. Exclude files the account owns. Examples: sharedwith:me - to find files only shared with me sharedwith:(emailaddress) - to find files specifically shared with a person sharedwith:external - I'm guessing this is a general search handle to find everything shared externally outside the organisation. "External includes groups where one or more members aren't part of your Google Workspace organization." sharedwith:public - This is the handle to find all files and folders shared with anyone that has a link or the public. For more useful nerdy search handles in Google Workspace and personal Google drive: Advanced search handles listed in Google Help (if reading it on smartphone then switch to Computer tab in Help page and go under Advanced): https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375114?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&oco=0#zippy=%2Cadvanced-search-in-google-drive Happy and safe computing Michael Plis

Groundbreaking News in AI Fact-Checking. This is very important for the future reliability of Generative AI large models. Why? We will discuss this in this article. You've likely heard about powerful AI models like ChatGPT, capable of writing papers and solving complex problems. However, ensuring their accuracy has been a challenge, requiring manual verification. Enter SAFE, an innovative AI-based app developed by Google's DeepMind to automatically fact-check outputs from these models. SAFE works like a digital detective, breaking down claims made by AI models and using Google Search to find supporting evidence. In testing, it proved to be remarkably accurate, aligning with human fact-checkers in 72% of cases and even outperforming them in disagreements 76% of the time. This breakthrough has significant implications for ensuring the reliability of AI-generated content and could lead to greater trust in these technologies. With SAFE, the process of verifying information becomes more efficient and accessible to a wider audience. What is DeepMind SAFE? Large language models often make mistakes when answering questions. To check their accuracy, DeepMind staff created a question set called LongFact. They then developed a method called SAFE, where these models break down answers and verify facts using Google. In tests, SAFE performed better than humans, agreeing with them 72% of the time and winning in 76% of disagreements. Additionally, SAFE proved to be more cost-effective, being over 20 times cheaper thirteen language models across four model families, finding that larger models generally perform better in providing accurate information on open-ended topics. What do you think about the role of fact-checking in AI? Fact checking will become paramount in making sure AI apps and large language models are accurate and don't output fake facts and details. This is important as even humans undertake fact checking when their thoughts come into the conscious and before speaking most of us fact check (verify) and then speak (output). Every company producing AI should work on fact checking layer or supportive tool that cleans output before providing it to the end user. Why? Because accurate information scientifically, historically and socially is important. But it must maintain unbiased output in terms of political and religious information and provide various answers or maybe future possibilities for verbal and details preferences will make it more relevant to the billions of humans with different religious and political opinions. Otherwise it will be pushing a narrow agenda thats preferred by the specific programmers of that company. It's so important - customisation and fact checking. Humans naturally fact check and customise their answers to the audience they talking to and so should AI models. How might tools like SAFE AI in the future? SAFE and other such fact checking AI models will support safe and factual outputs from apps like Gemini. Other companies will follow suit in order to be able to use them more widely. This also may bring more job losses as AI models get more and more accurate and factual and reliable. Governments must start planning for universal basic income for those who will lose jobs to more powerful Generative AI models. There is no way to sugar coat this. But on the bright side, you will perhaps one day be able to pursue those hobbies and passions that you put off for moet of your life. I just wonder how will Capitalism work under such circumstances and will it be a rosy life or not? Only time can tell. Regards Michael Plis References Full Google DeepMind paper entitled: "Long-form factuality in large language models" on Arxiv servers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18802 Article: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-deepmind-safe-ai-based-app.html Img Credit for both images: Unsplash / Google DeepMind #deepmind #ai #artificialintelligence #google

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