In the early days of the Iran war, the X account of the Tehran Times newspaper showed a satellite video said to document damage to a U.S. radar installation in Bahrain from and Iranian drone attack. Analysis proved it was a manipulated image of a site in Qatar.
Newspapers have been a disappearing medium during this century, but some publishers have found a new lease on life thanks to AI.
Generative AI’s large language models (LLMs) work by matching patterns to predict the next word in a sentence or the most likely response to a question.
A new design of photonic, or light-powered, AI chip can perform an individual AI operation in trillionths of a second using light that needs less electricity and runs cooler than conventional chips, according to its developers at the University of Sydney.
On 4 March, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s new $30-billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” until Sam Altman’s business issues stock.