On 23 January, OpenAI showed off its “Operator,” an AI agent that can travel the web and handle the details of routine tasks for you, such as making a restaurant reservation on the Open Table website or ordering groceries through Instacart.
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HAS DEEPSEEK POPPED THE AI INDUSTRY’S BUBBLE?
Now DeepSeek, a Chinese AI skunkworks, says its R1 AI model cost just $6 million to develop. Tests show that it performs about as well on many tasks as the newest systems from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
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AS FORECAST: “INTERACTIVE U” IS THE EDUCATION TREND OF THE FUTURE
The popularity of online coursework in Europe has increased over the past year—hitting the highest level recorded.
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GETTING “OBJECTIVE” WITH ANTHROPIC’S CLAUDE
As AI companies continue to attempt to build AI which can outperform humans, driving the lion’s share of profit and power to themselves and companies that best exploit the technology, it’s interesting to see different “anthropometric” gambits.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HUMANKIND PROMOTED TO “MANAGERS” BY AI?
Humans won’t lose their jobs to AI, technocrats are still assuring everyone, despite current job hemorrhages on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
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BILL GATES: AI REPLACISM IS THE FUTURE
Microsoft founder and self-styled “everything expert” Bill Gates says a book from 2023, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, should be read by everyone.
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AI SPARKS BOOM IN GAS-FIRED ELECTRIC POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION
The raging demand for electricity among AI’s U.S. data centers is inspiring the construction of at least 80 new electric utility plants by the end of this decade, all running on natural gas, the Financial Times reported.
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USING CHATGPT YIELDS AS MUCH CO2 AS 250 TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS
Bitcoin mining isn’t the only major tech polluter. Each month, queries to ChatGPT alone result in AI data centers emitting as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as more than 250 jetliner trips across the Atlantic Ocean, according to a study by KnownHost, a website host.
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OPENAI UNVEILS PLATFORM DESIGNED TO EXTEND HUMAN LIFE
OpenAI has collaborated with start-up Retro Biosciences to create the GPT-4b micro, an AI that will help researchers re-engineer proteins to improve stem cell production.
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NVIDIA, MAYO CLINIC PARTNER TO CREATE DIGITAL TWINS, AI ROBOTS
In recent years, the Mayo Clinic has installed robotic labs to run its pathology tests that detect the presence of diseases in patients, usually by running chemical assays or examining microscopic images of blood or tissue samples.