Rand0h talks about AI! DEF CON 610 Monthly Meetup
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Welcome to DEF CON 610!
Please join us the First Wednesday of the month at The Vault Brewing in Easton!
Schedule:
6pm - 7pm Setup / Meet & Greet
7pm - Talk: Living between the walls of death
Abstract:
Many consider the metal band Lamb of God to be the godfathers of what fans lovingly call the Wall of Death. It's a mosh pit, but if the mosh pit were the trash compactor in A New Hope, without the plot armor, walls crashing together like a monkey on cocaine banging cymbals.
It's the most apt metaphor I can come up with for what it means to live through the birth and evolution of LLMs. From a distance, you can see the shape of the pit and predict its general movement. Drill down, and it's slightly-coordinated chaos, foolish and pointless to predict any specific motion inside the whole. Wonderful and horrifying in (mostly) equal measure.
In this talk I'll show off my projects, walk through how I built them, and rattle off a laundry list of lessons learned about burrowing deeper down the AI rabbit hole while staying in shouting distance of my better angels. We're living in the green field between our own Walls of Death. The pace of this latest tech evolution is frenetic and the history of how we got here is this the stuff of both sweetest dreams and absolute nightmares. It's intoxicating to the creative brain and a constant lesson in "trust but verify."
General Stuff We Always Have:
Lock picking with practice locks. Picks and training provided.
Great conversation and exchange of ideas.
What to bring:
Having a laptop helps, but not required.
Any hardware / software you'd like to show off / need help with.
Lock picks.