OpenAI is back hunting for capital, looking for another $100 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $750 billion.
Tag: AI
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AI AS A HEATING UTILITY
AI data centers are vast campuses with tens or hundreds of thousands of chips and servers generating heat that has to be drained off. Instead of venting it, data center operators are starting to sell it.
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ANTHROPIC CEO WARNS AGAINST AI WHILE HIS COMPANY ADVANCES THE TECH
In a 38-page essay, CEO Dario Amodei of AI contender Anthropic warns that AI heightens the risk of bioterrorism, dictatorships, labor market turmoil, and the greater concentration of wealth.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: READY FOR ABUNDANT AI-INDUCED UNEMPLOYMENT?
Ready for massive unemployment for which societies and governments are completely unprepared?
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AI IS MORE CREATIVE THAN AT LEAST HALF OF HUMANITY, STUDY SUGGESTS
Large language AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others are more creative than the typical human, evidence from a study from the University of Montreal suggests.
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WORKERS, BOSSES DIFFER OVER AI’S BENEFITS
Companies are spending billions of dollars to infuse AI throughout their workforces. At the same time, employees dealing with AI say that not only does the technology not save them time, but they also feel overwhelmed by trying to fit it into their workflows.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Mounting economic pressures, industry shifts, and rapid technological disruption continue to drive job losses across multiple sectors.
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GLOBAL ECONOMY DANGEROUSLY DEPENDENT ON AI, IMF WARNS
The world economy’s resilience is deceptive and has become so dependent on AI that a sharp downturn in the technology’s boom would endanger global markets’ stability, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, chief economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said at the World Economic Forum on 19 January.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI CRATERING CREATIVITY, AND HOLLYWOOD GOES HARDCORE ANTI-AI
A new study is showing that though AI is being used more to produce creative content, AI’s creativity, especially when given free reign, leaves a lot to be desired.
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NEW AI FINDS THE SIMPLE RULES UNDERLYING CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY
Duke University’s new AI can penetrate chaotic or complex systems that have thousands of variables to distill simple, easily understood rules and compact equations that show how the systems work.