“The field of artificial intelligence has been running through a boom-and-bust cycle since its early days. Now, as the field is in yet another boom, many proponents of the technology seem to have forgotten the failures of the past – and the reasons for them.”
Here we go again: The boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing will drive a spike in energy use, the National Grid has predicted. Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68664182 all this power usage for shity LLM/AI to write poems, pictures, videos etc from stolen data to train AI. #artificialintelligence#machinelearning
Reports of the death of Artifact, the AI-powered news app, may have been exaggerated. While the company announced in January that it was to close the following month, it's still functioning. “It takes a lot less to run it than we had imagined,” co-founder Kevin Systrom confirmed to TechCrunch, adding that it’s just himself and co-founder Mike Krieger running Artifact right now. He told TechCrunch it will still likely go away — but not just yet, and that he and Krieger are "exploring all possible routes for it going forward." Here's more from @Sarahp
NeuraLink will allow you to speak entire words or sentences telepathically; when a person has no voice, the AI will generate brain-to-speak your voice, according to your choice, and play it on a regular loudspeaker for people around you....
This week, #Tennessee passed #TheElvisAct (Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act) intended to protect artists from having their voice and likeness used by #AI without consent.
Ozempic profits are helping fund a new Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer
The owner of Novo Nordisk, the drugmaker that gave the world Ozempic and Wegovy, is funding a new supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology with a key aim of discovering new medicines and treatments.
The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change
The companies with the most powerful AI models will face more onerous requirements, such as having to perform model evaluations and risk-assessments and mitigations, ensure cybersecurity protection, and report any incidents where the AI system failed.
The BBC seems quite far along in negotiations with Big Tech groups about granting access to its archives for AI training purposes in parallel with its own development of AI for its operations.
The (qualified) good news is the BBC archives offer relatively(!) unbiased training content for AI modules (although some would disagree that they are unbiased).
This also looks like the early days of IPlayer, might the BBC produce a signfincatly different (open source?) #AI
“When paying, you are presented with the option of leaving a tip, no different than pretty much any other interaction with a point-of-sale payment system. But it poses an interesting question—and one we will increasingly be required to answer as the domain of #automation continues to expand:”
NeuraLink will allow you to speak entire words or sentences telepathically; when a person has no voice...
NeuraLink will allow you to speak entire words or sentences telepathically; when a person has no voice, the AI will generate brain-to-speak your voice, according to your choice, and play it on a regular loudspeaker for people around you....