I Opted Out of AI Training. Does This Reduce My Future Influence?
If we all start opting out of our posts being used for training models, doesn’t that reduce the influence of our unique voice and perspectives on those models? Increasingly, the...
Making higher education more accessible to students in Pakistan
Taking out a loan to attend college is an investment in your future. But unlike in the United States, students in Pakistan don’t have easy access to college loans. Instead,...
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager, he had pivoted to AI...
Trump-backed deal to save TikTok moves closer to finish line ahead of ban on April 5: sources
The long-awaited deal to save TikTok from being banned from US app stores is ticking down to completion, On The Money has learned. An investor group working with Vice President...
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable,...
MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
Around 11 billion tons of goods, or about 1.5 tons per person worldwide, are transported by sea each year, representing about 90 percent of global trade by volume. Internationally, the...
Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the...
ChatGPT won’t generate images of ‘sexy women’ but will make images of ‘sexy men’ due to apparent ‘bug’
Rules for she but not for he. The new ChatGPT image generator will manufacture images of “sexy men” but won’t make images of “sexy women” due to an apparent software...
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for...
