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22.08.26 - 14:24
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Chinese AI Models Gain Ground on Price and Use (Bloomberg)
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Chinese AI models are rapidly narrowing the performance gap with US rivals while gaining users with lower prices and open-weight technology that lets companies deploy them locally. Bloomberg News Tech Reporter Luz Ding is on Bloomberg This Weekend and explains to hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini that Chinese AI Models capabilities are approaching leading US models at lower cost. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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22.08.26 - 14:12
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The AI Spending Spree Comes With a Catch (Bloomberg)
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Sam Palmisano says the AI boom is built on long-cycle bets in data centers, chips and energy, even as AI software changes at breakneck speed. If adoption slows or cheaper Chinese open-source models gain traction, Big Tech may have to rethink the spending plans behind today's AI race. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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22.08.26 - 10:54
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′Digging the grave of my profession′: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs (The Guardian)
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Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and productionHollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being “handed a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my profession”.Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour to teach AI models the intricacies of their jobs, from writing a screenplay to devising a shooting schedule. Continue reading......
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22.08.26 - 10:54
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Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash (The Guardian)
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It's clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans' ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimisticHere in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we'll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singularity,” as a Stanford University friend greeted me. More prosaically, the imminent breakthrough is described as “recursive self-improvement” – the point at which AI itself trains each successive model of AI, resulting in an exponential development to something which, in many significant respects, is more intelligent than us humans.As Robert Wright puts it in his book The God Test: “Never before has the near-term future … held such a wide array of not-implausible paths for humankind that would be so wildly transformative.” But will this be heaven or hell? Heaven, says Elon Musk, who predicts “an age of amazing abundance” – although he also sees a 10-20% chance...
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22.08.26 - 10:09
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Bitcoin-Miner: So teuer ist der KI-Umbau (Der Aktionaer)
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Die Erholung am Kryptomarkt hat auch den Aktien von Bitcoin-Minern kräftigen Rückenwind verliehen. Viele dieser Unternehmen setzen aber ohnehin nicht mehr nur auf die Digitalwährung, sondern positionieren sich als Infrastrukturdienstleister für den boomenden KI-Sektor....
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