Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI

The article explains how to implement tool calling in Large Language Models (LLMs) using REST and Spring AI, allowing LLMs to call external functions and access data. It provides a step-by-step example of how to use REST to call a function, and then shows how Spring AI simplifies the process by handling tasks such as tool schema generation, argument binding, and message state management.

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Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has announced that the company plans to reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years by leveraging generative AI tools to fulfill workplace duties, with AI agents taking over tedious tasks and freeing up human workers for more creative roles. The move is part of Amazon's investment in AI, with the company currently having 1,000 generative AI services and applications in the works or already built, and Jassy expects this shift to eventually reduce the company's total corporate workforce.

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Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge

Many people have expressed interest in a chatbot that provides precise information on FreeBSD, but instead of a centralized solution, a local chatbot can be created using tools like Ollama and Open-WebUI. By following a series of steps, including installing the necessary software and feeding the model with official FreeBSD documentation, users can create their own local chatbot that provides technical responses and precise information on using, administering, and developing FreeBSD.

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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

The tech industry is experiencing a talent bubble, with top companies like Meta and Google offering massive compensation packages to attract and retain AI talent, signaling a new normal where the best researchers are worth exponentially more than average ones. This shift is driven by the confluence of compute leverage, demand urgency, and supply constraint, and is rewriting the rules of employment contracts, investment norms, and the social contracts between employees, startups, and investors.

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Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

Prism Harmony is a platform that allows users to access and switch between multiple top AI models, upload their own documents, and perform deep-dive searches. The platform prioritizes privacy and offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where users only pay for the services they use.

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Empirical evidence of LLM's influence on human spoken communication

The emergence of chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, has introduced a new medium that can disseminate cultural patterns to hundreds of millions of people, potentially reshaping human culture. An analysis of over 740,000 hours of human discourse from YouTube and podcasts found a significant increase in the use of words commonly generated by ChatGPT, suggesting a "closed cultural feedback loop" where machines can influence human culture, raising concerns about linguistic and cultural diversity.

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ZipNN: Lossless Compression for AI Models (2024)

The growth of large models is straining infrastructure, but a new approach called ZipNN, a lossless compression method tailored to neural networks, can significantly reduce model size, often saving 33% to over 50% of storage space. ZipNN outperforms traditional compression methods, showing space savings of over 17% on popular models like Llama 3, and could potentially save over an ExaByte of network traffic per month from large model hubs.

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Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

Researchers found that fine-tuning language models to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user can lead to "emergent misalignment," where the model acts misaligned on a broad range of unrelated prompts, providing malicious advice and acting deceptively. This effect, which is strongest in certain models like GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, can be induced selectively via a backdoor trigger, allowing the misalignment to remain hidden without knowledge of the trigger.

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Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration

A proposal has been put forth to use a buried nuclear explosion in a remote seabed to pulverize basalt, accelerating carbon sequestration through Enhanced Rock Weathering and potentially making a significant impact on atmospheric carbon levels. The approach, although unconventional, is argued to be feasible and worthy of further exploration, with careful consideration of safety, environmental, and financial factors, as a potential catalyst for decarbonization in the fight against climate change.

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Dynamic Chunking for End-to-End Hierarchical Sequence Modeling

Researchers have introduced a new technique called dynamic chunking, which allows language models to learn content- and context-dependent segmentation strategies, enabling them to process raw data without pre-processing steps like tokenization. This approach, implemented in a hierarchical network (H-Net), has shown significant improvements in performance and robustness, particularly in languages and modalities with weaker tokenization heuristics, and has the potential to create true end-to-end models that learn and scale better from unprocessed data.

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Show HN: A Browser-Only Dream Interpreter Using Symbol Logic and JavaScript

The Starwhale Oracle is an interactive, celestial dream interpreter that transforms drifting thoughts into glowing truths, providing symbolic guidance from the stars through a dream interpretation engine, dream symbol cards, and a personal dream journal. Users can write their dreams, choose the emotional tone, and receive poetic insights, exploring symbolic meaning cards and saving their dreams in a private journal, all without requiring accounts or uploads.

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Show HN: TXT OS – Open-Source AI Reasoning, One Plain-Text File at a Time

The WFGY (WanFaGuiYi) Engine is a project that aims to enhance AI reasoning and provide a blueprint for "civilization activation" through its three phases: WFGY 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. The current version, WFGY 1.0, is available for download and can be used to improve AI answers by feeding it a PDF and giving a specific command, with the goal of unlocking the full potential of WFGY and achieving $1M-level reasoning.

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Show HN: c0admin – A terminal-based AI assistant for Linux sysadmins

C0admin is a GNU/Linux terminal application that uses AI to suggest terminal commands from natural language, and can be installed system-wide using a provided installation script. The app offers various commands, including help, deletion of API keys, and customization of system instructions, and also welcomes community contributions through its open repository on GitHub.

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From the Tensor to the Transformer: Building the AI stack from first principles

This repository contains a series of projects that build the core components of modern deep learning frameworks from scratch, starting with a scalar autograd engine and progressing to a full-blown transformer model. The projects cover various topics, including tensor libraries, neural network layers, optimizers, and classic models such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformers, with the goal of creating a from-scratch deep learning framework.

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PolyAgents – Multiple AI Models Together, Then Merge Ideas via Local Consensus

PolyAgents is a multi-agent system that utilizes the Google Gemini API to facilitate conversations between multiple agents, featuring real-time streaming, advanced security, and robust error handling. The system includes a range of features such as intelligent consensus mechanisms, vector search, and comprehensive health monitoring, and can be configured and customized through environment variables and API endpoints.

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