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The Billion-Dollar Price Tag of Building AI | TIME - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 22 Jun 24
     
    "The researchers found that the cost of the computational power required to train the models is doubling every nine months. This is a prodigious rate of growth-at this rate, the cost of the hardware and electricity needed to build cutting-edge AI systems alone would be in the billions by later this decade, without accounting for other costs such as employee compensation."
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For all the hype in 2023, we still don't know what AI's long-term impact will be | John... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...m-impact-nvidia-h100-microsoft

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  • huge public corporations launch products that are known to “hallucinate”
  • And that the tech can do all of the other tricks that are entrancing millions of people – who are, by the way, mostly using it for free
  • We always overestimate the short-term impacts of novel technologies while grossly underestimating their long-term effects
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  • If this machine-learning technology is as transformative as some people are claiming, its long-term impact may be just as profound as print has been.
  • (Remember that much of the output of current AI is kept relatively sanitised by the unacknowledged labour of poorly paid people in poor countries.
  • The Nvidia HGX H100 chip, designed for generative AI, is being bought in huge quantities by companies such as Microsoft for $30,000 each. Photograph: AP
  • Microsoft plans to buy 150,000 Nvidia chips – at $30,000 (£24,000) a pop.
  • “are not ready to deploy generative artificial intelligence at scale because they lack strong data infrastructure or the controls needed to make sure the technology is used safely.”
  • cr7_cristiano on 13 Jun 24
     
    "huge public corporations launch products that are known to "hallucinate" "
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'Disinformation on steroids': is the US prepared for AI's influence on the election? | ... - 0 views

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  • Already this year, a robocall generated using artificial intelligence targeted New Hampshire voters in the January primary, purporting to be President Joe Biden and telling them to stay home in what officials said could be the first attempt at using AI to interfere with a US election. The “deepfake” calls were linked to two Texas companies, Life Corporation and Lingo Telecom.
  • It’s not clear if the deepfake calls actually prevented voters from turning out, but that doesn’t really matter, said Lisa Gilbert, executive vice-president of Public Citizen, a group that’s been pushing for federal and state regulation of AI’s use in politics.
  • Examples of what could be ahead for the US are happening all over the world. In Slovakia, fake audio recordings may have swayed an election in what serves as a “frightening harbinger of the sort of interference the United States will likely experience during the 2024 presidential election”, CNN reported. In Indonesia, an AI-generated avatar of a military commander helped rebrand the country’s defense minister as a “chubby-cheeked” man who “makes Korean-style finger hearts and cradles his beloved cat, Bobby, to the delight of Gen Z voters”, Reuters reported. In India, AI versions of dead politicians have been brought back to compliment elected officials, according to Al Jazeera.
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  • she said, “what if AI could do all this? Then maybe I shouldn’t be trusting everything that I’m seeing.”
dr tech

Microsoft's AI speech generator VALL-E 2 'reaches human parity' - but it's too dangerou... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 11 Jul 24
     
    "Microsoft researchers said VALL-E 2 was capable of generating "accurate, natural speech in the exact voice of the original speaker, comparable to human performance," in a paper that appeared June 17 on the pre-print server arXiv. In other words, the new AI voice generator is convincing enough to be mistaken for a real person - at least, according to its creators."
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TechScape: Can AI really help fix a healthcare system in crisis? | Technology | The Gua... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...icial-intelligence-cancer-care

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  • dr tech on 10 Jul 24
     
    "In a sharply worded warning, the cancer experts say that 'novel solutions' such as new diagnostic tests have been wrongly hyped as 'magic bullets' for the cancer crisis, but 'none address the fundamental issues of cancer as a systems problem'. A 'common fallacy' of NHS leaders is the assumption that new technologies can reverse inequalities, the authors add. The reality is that tools such as AI can create 'additional barriers for those with poor digital or health literacy'. 'We caution against technocentric approaches without robust evaluation from an equity perspective,' the paper concludes."
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The world is not quite ready for 'digital workers' | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...ai-digital-workers-employment

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  • dr tech on 22 Jul 24
     
    "Seeing an opportunity, Franklin decided to take advantage. On 9 July, the company said that it would begin to support digital employees as part of its platform and treat them like any other employee. "Today Lattice is making AI history," Franklin pronounced. "We will be the first to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. Digital workers will be securely onboarded, trained and assigned goals, performance metrics, appropriate systems access and even a manager. Just as any person would be." The pushback was swift - and, in many cases, brutal, particularly on LinkedIn, which is generally not known for its savage engagement like X (formerly known as Twitter). "This strategy and messaging misses the mark in a big way, and I say that as someone building an AI company," said Sawyer Middeleer, an executive at a firm that uses AI to help with sales research, on LinkedIn. "Treating AI agents as employees disrespects the humanity of your real employees. Worse, it implies that you view humans simply as 'resources' to be optimized and measured against machines. It's the exact opposite of a work environment designed to elevate the people who contribute to it.""
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