AI and society

Summary As the use of generative AI grows, academia is also getting its share of ChatGPT texts. Publishers and researchers are trying to develop policies and a path to a future where AI-assisted papers will be commonplace. In August 2022, the journal Resources Policy published a study on e-commerce and fossil fuels that included a …

Academic journals scramble to adapt as AI-assisted papers sneak into publications Read More »

Summary As AI’s ability to see and categorize our real world grows, so do the possibilities for surveillance. This is as true for road traffic as it is for restaurants. For several months, Aecom and Acusensus have been testing a new AI surveillance system in the UK that can monitor the behavior of drivers and …

AI becomes the new traffic police, catching hundreds of UK drivers in the act Read More »

Summary Nvidia’s new H100 GPU for artificial intelligence is in high demand, generating sizable profits for the company. The AI chip is seeing unprecedented interest from researchers and tech firms racing to build the next big generative AI model. Raymond James estimates that it costs Nvidia around $3,320 to manufacture an H100 GPU. With retail …

Nvidia’s H100 GPU sells like hot cakes with high profit margins Read More »

Summary OpenAI, Google, Midjourney, Adobe, Microsoft – most of the big AI players are based in the US, especially on the West Coast. But Japan is also making waves. Two recent developments have put Japan, and especially its capital Tokyo, in the spotlight. Microsoft Japan is launching a secure version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot …

Microsoft and Google dropouts launch AI offerings in Japan Read More »

Summary The artificial intelligence industry is growing and maturing rapidly. As AI becomes more capital-intensive, companies are turning to creative forms of financing to fund expansion. Cloud computing company CoreWeave recently raised $2.3 billion in debt financing by using its Nvidia H100 GPUs as collateral. The lenders include major investment firms like Blackstone, BlackRock, and …

AI financing gets creative as CoreWeave secures billions using Nvidia H100 GPUs as collateral Read More »

Summary The New York Times has updated its terms of service to prohibit the use of its content to train AI models. The publication also requires written permission for automated tools, such as website crawlers, to access or collect its content.  Although the reason for the update is unclear, it comes after Google gave itself …

The New York Times is taking steps to stop AI companies from using its content as training data Read More »

Summary Supertone AI is an expressive text-to-audio platform that claims to take on the publishing industry. Beyond text-to-speech Supertone’s technology represents a leap forward in traditional text-to-speech synthesis. The company has developed a proprietary speech synthesis technology called Nuvo. This not only speaks and sings, but also captures emotions. This technology enables the production of …

Supertone AI is an expressive text-to-audio platform that brings back Freddie Mercury’s voice Read More »

Newsletter As the dream of LK-99 faded, I asked a quantum computing expert what a room-temperature superconductor would mean for classical computing, quantum computing, AI – and what he thinks of the would-be wonder material. Researchers in Korea recently reported achieving superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure in a new material called LK-99. If …

The dream may be dead, but here’s how LK-99 would’ve changed AI Read More »

Movie extras in Hollywood are concerned that AI could replace them as productions use body scans to create digital replicas of actors, NPR reports. This tension is central to the ongoing strike between background actors and studios. Hollywood has used technology to enhance films for years, but advances in generative AI are enabling synthesizing and …

Hollywood has been scanning extras for years Read More »

Summary A new study from the Pew Research Center predicts that women, Asians, and higher-skilled, higher-paying jobs will be most affected by the AI shift. According to the study, 19 percent of Americans in 2022 had jobs with high AI exposure, where their primary tasks could be replaced or augmented by AI. This compares to …

AI shift set to impact higher-skilled and higher-paying job sectors, study finds Read More »