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by furkanturan 1mo ago
The blog says: 1. I don’t discuss patient cases with an LLM, and 2. I don’t directly use generative models in decision-making. For the second point I completely agree. For the first point, I am asking out of curiosity; - if the AI tools gua
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
Regarding the SWIFT example, transactions between banks across countries go through SWIFT’s infrastructure and are encrypted for regulatory and security reasons. Banks and financial institutions operating at this scale are also required to
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
I never thought about whether this was possible, but now that I know it is, I immediately see how useful it could be for my workflow.
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
That is the key advantage of FHE: you encrypt your data locally, using keys that you own, and never need to share the plaintext—or the keys—with anyone. But there is more to it. Teams like us at Belfort, we are working to make FHE practical
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
While encrypted AI chatbots seem within reach, we don’t see them as the primary target today. There is a set of untapped applications, such as inter-bank transfers, industrial use cases, and healthcare; where regulations, privacy laws, and
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
Thanks a lot. We have some road ahead for using encrypted AI for your agentic work. Today, I would not suggest thinking that as the primary target. Instead, there are many untapped applications (e.g. inter-bank transfers, industry, healthca
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
FHE is not always for using somebody else's server; but for sure you do not share keys with that somebody else. Besides, FHE is not always about using somebody else's server. At Belfort, in addition to FHE acceleration, we also ex
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
There are many challenges we need to solve for privacy preserving compute. Legislations, legal matters, key management, HSM like devices that has limited compute capabilities. At Belfort, we are accelerating FHE, besides exploring such uses
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
FHE doesn’t need Google too. Google research is investing in to it. Like we are at Belfort, various teams work on making FHE practical for organizations that want to run it for their own use cases, including on infrastructure they control t
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
Yes, it is. But it’s important to recognize that there are different FHE schemes. Zama has invested heavily in TFHE and achieved impressive results. However, time has shown that TFHE is not the best fit for encrypted AI workloads, with CKKS
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
Count Belfort too. In addition to our GPU acceleration efforts, we have ongoing ASIC initiatives to further accelerate encrypted compute.
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
Local compute is preferable where possible. There are cases where computation needs to be performed remotely. For example, when collecting data from remote entities while preserving privacy by allowing each entity to retain ownership of the
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by furkanturan 1mo ago
Exactly. That is what we have today at Belfort; not enough for making all AI work privacy preserving, but fast enough for many applications, where otherwise unencrypted compute is not acceptable.
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Recommendation engine knows what to show you, without knowing anything about you(belfortlabs.com)
9 points by furkanturan 2mo ago|0 comments
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Check this one too: https://openmined.org/blog/ckks-explained-part-1-simple-enco...
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Good suggestion. Thanks a lot. Definitely will keep in mind for the next demo
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Nothing is removed. I am not good with dog breeds, but with "German Shepherd", they probably meant the image #27; the black dog. It is indeed classified as a cat :(
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Indeed, we have our own library, Cyclops. We will share more about it soon :)
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Thanks for taking the time and test it. Key management is a critical part of the story, as j2kun has pointed out before. In this demo, we're intentionally caching the same key material for every visitor so we can showcase the actual FH
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Thanks a lot. Though encrypted AI chat bot is not far ahead, do not think of that as the primary target of today. Instead, there are many untapped applications (e.g. inter-bank transfers, industry, healthcare) where regulations, privacy law
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by furkanturan 2mo ago
Consider encrypted AI. You ask a question under encryption. The remote calculates the answer, which is still under encryption. This is the critical point; the remote cannot see the question and answer. It only calculates. Once you receive t
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Belfort Releases Fastest Encrypted Image Classifer(belfortlabs.com)
17 points by furkanturan 2mo ago|5 comments