“The Biden admin. announced plans to include an excise tax on electricity used for #crypto mining in the new budget. The tax would be imposed at 30% on the electricity used by devices mining cryptocurrencies.
The new tax sounds reasonable on its face. But in reality, it is late, administratively unworkable, and a bad use of political will and attention. A better place to start: Tax the electricity usage of data centers and artificial intelligence."
Here we go! The #AI generated fake news wars have begun. If this was able to cause the stock market to dip, what is going to happen when something extremely severe goes viral and causes mass panic? We are in scarry times.
Researchers have developed an #AI model trained with data from the Darknet – DarkBERT's source are hackers, cybercriminals, and the politically persecuted.
A warm day. I’m hanging out in the shade at the back of Haus Coffee while editing a Oress This podcast with Joe Hoyle about what #WordPress agencies should know about #AI. Joe is the co-founder of Human Made, a WP agency that, and speaking at the “AI For WordPress” conference this week.
Note that the training data heavily relies on the Bible and its translations. Lots of bias there.
Meta unveils open-source #AI models it says can identify 4,000+ spoken languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, an increase of 40x and 10x respectively.