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  • Move Aside Crypto, AI Could Be The Next Climate Disaster

    Move Aside Crypto, AI Could Be The Next Climate Disaster

    The coming age of powerful AI chatbots may very well reshape the world in radical and unforeseen ways, but it could do so at an immense environmental cost. A new report released today by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence estimates the amount of energy needed to train AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-3, which powers…


  • The Mystery Account Destroying Online Go Was Google’s

    Yesterday I reported on how a mystery account called “Master” had been tearing up the world of online Go, and nobody knew who it was. But in an update posted on Twitter earlier this morning, Google has admitted that the mystery account “Master”, as well as a second account “Magister”, was their world-beating AlphaGo bot…