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Move Aside, Crypto. AI Could Be The Next Climate Disaster.
The coming age of powerful AI chatbots may very well reshape the world in radical and unforeseen ways, but it could do so at an immense environmental cost. A new report released today by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence estimates the amount of energy needed to train AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-3, which powers…
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How a Senator’s Misguided Tweet Can Help Us Understand AI
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy stirred the AI researcher hornets’ nest this week by repeating a number of ill-informed, and increasingly popular statements about advanced AI chatbots’ capacity to achieve human-like understanding and teach themselves complex topics. Top AI experts speaking with Gizmodo said Murphy’s claims were nonsense detached from reality and potentially risk distracting people…
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Elon Reportedly Pulled Out of OpenAI Because They Wouldn’t Let Him Be the Big Boss
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once played the Mr. Money Bags role to Silicon Valley’s newest darling OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and DALLE-2. The nonprofit has become the centre of the tech world’s new obsession with AI, but a new report claims that back in 2018 Musk proposed he take over the nonprofit…
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Stanford Researchers Take Down Alpaca AI Due to ‘Hallucinations’ and Rising Costs
Researchers at Stanford University have taken down their short-lived chatbot that harnessed Meta’s LLaMA AI, nicknamed Alpaca AI. The researchers launched Alpaca with a public demo anyone could try last week, but quickly took the model offline thanks to rising costs, safety concerns, and “hallucinations,” which is the word the AI community has settled on…