Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building a supercomputer called “Ultracluster” that will house hundreds of thousands of its proprietary Trainium AI chips in a new design of server, the company said.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI LIES AND TRIES TO SAVE ITSELF, MORE SIGNS OF IP THEFT, AND A HOLE IN THE “CLIMATE CRISIS” ATMOSPHERE
Any industry that could get away with stealing massive amounts of other people’s property, and wasn’t bound by regulations not to develop and distribute unprecedented, disturbingly powerful and dangerous technology, would probably enjoy some success…up to a point.
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AI COULD SPOT ALZHEIMER’S SIGNALS YEARS BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR
Scientists at San Francisco’s Gladstone Institute have created an AI that can see early hints of Alzheimer’s Disease in subtle behavioral changes potentially years before diagnosable symptoms appear.
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U.S. ADDS NEW SANCTIONS ON CHIP SALES TO CHINA
The Biden administration has added new bans on sales of AI components to China but applied the sanctions to fewer companies than originally had been indicated.
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PRODUCTIVITY GAINS BOOST U.S. GDP GROWTH
The U.S. economy has undergone a boom in productivity, the amount of work accomplished per worker, the U.S. labor department reported.
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AI TRAINING HAS MAXED OUT. DEVELOPERS ARE MOVING ON TO POST-TRAINING
AI training involves pouring as much Internet content as possible into a system. That involves not only massive amounts of data, but also huge amounts of computer time.
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BEZOS BETS BIG ON AI CHIP-MAKING START-UP
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is among the players in a new $693 million funding round for Tenstorrent, a maker of graphic processing units, the complex computer chips that are the foundation for AI.
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AI’S FUTURE IS SMALLER, CUSTOM-BUILT SYSTEMS, INFOSYS CHAIR SAYS
Instead of buying ever bigger, more powerful AI systems, companies will build or buy smaller AI models customized to their own needs, Nandan Nilekani, chair of the Indian tech giant Infosys, said in a Financial Times forecast.
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YOU WILL OWN NO LIFE AND BE HAPPY: THE AFFORDABLE LIVING AS A SERVICE (ALaaS) SCAM
Tech giants, and increasingly businesses leveraging AI, robotics and related automation technologies, are admitting the scale of worker obsolescence that’s coming.
