Nvidia: The Cards, The Hype, and the Cost-Effectiveness.
I spent part of the winter shopping around for a good computer setup that could handle the withering demands of
Read MoreI spent part of the winter shopping around for a good computer setup that could handle the withering demands of
Read MoreNuclear power advocates have regained a healthy glow, though the environmental movement continues to split more hairs than atoms over the role of the carbon-free energy source.
Read MoreConstellation just announced a deal that the generation utility will restart the surviving Three Mile Island reactor, which was shut down in 2019. That’s good news. The more complicated news is that Microsoft is buying all of that power for its data centers and artificial intelligence, both of which continue to consume staggering amounts of electricity– which they buy for far cheaper than what we peasants must pay.
Read MoreImagining cities and their infrastructure using artificial intelligence, and playing around with some of the weirder parameters in Midjourney to see what we can squeeze out of the generative AI platform.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence models can generate outputs we can understand from conversational input. But how does an AI narc on itself? We look at a couple of the rationales for why one author says that an AI detector “thought” that the US Constitution and the Book of Genesis were almost certainly written by AI– and unpack some more details about the mysterious innerds of the model.
Read MoreHiking up an Icelandic glacier is already pretty daunting, but it can be made a bit less daunting with an AI assistant. It can’t help you climb, but it can explain some missing puzzle pieces.
Read MoreThe tech sector is trying to both expand the use of artificial intelligence while clinging on to the dying days of an epic business cycle. Both are contributing to making the internet, IoT, and any consumer product even remotely connected to the internet, increasingly unusable, increasingly resource-intensive, and increasingly frustrating.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence can produce imagery of whatever you ask it for. The question is: How accurate is the AI’s interpretation? In some cases, it sounds like it’s based more on the prejudices and stereotypes held by the people who design and train the model. That’s a big problem.
Read MoreNews came out this week about a lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. The company is being sued by
Read MoreIt was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.
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