Daily Archives: February 28, 2023
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Nvidia predicts AI models one million times more powerful than ChatGPT within 10 years
A million here, times a million there. Pretty soon you’re talking about big numbers. So Nvidia claims for its AI accelerating hardware in terms of the performance boost it has delivered over the last decade and will deliver again over the next 10 years.
The result, if Nvidia is correct, will be a new industry of AI factories across the world and gigantic breakthroughs in AI processing power. It also means, ostensibly, AI models one million times more powerful than existing examples, including ChatGPT, in AI processing terms at least. Read More
Workers’ ChatGPT Use Restricted At More Banks—Including Goldman, Citigroup
CitiGroup, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo have restricted employees’ use of ChatGPT, Bloomberg and Financial News reported Friday, joining JPMorgan Chase, as well as Amazon and multiple major public school districts to limit the use of OpenAI’s new chatbot, which has taken the internet by storm and raised concerns about sensitive information sharing. Read More
ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube
One morning earlier this week, Neil Clarke, the editor of a prominent U.S.-based fantasy and science fiction magazine called Clarkesworld, was wading through the latest story submissions from authors hoping to be published. He determined that at least 50 submissions that day alone had been lazily drafted by artificial intelligence.
Of the 1,200 global submissions that Clarke received in the first 20 days of February, he deemed 500 of them to be AI-generated.
“It was picking up at a daily rate,” Clarke told Semafor. He was forced to close submissions because of the crush of ChatGPT-created content.
Clarke identified the likely culprit: Followers of online get-rich-quick scammers trying to make a quick buck, in the off-chance their AI-generated work gets published. Read More