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It's no secret that the demand for all things Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing has hit new heights in 2023, so much so that NVIDIA has become a trillion-dollar company. Because the more you buy, the more you save.

AI-boom or not, NVIDIA's A100 and H100 chips are incredibly impressive, boasting massive performance gains over previous generations in addition to some genuinely groundbreaking architectural and efficiency advances. Delivering these chips requires TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging technologies, which not only don't come cheap but are incredibly complex to boot.

And so, with the demand for chips like the A100 and H100 being so high, TSMC is planning to expand its production capacity because things have gotten to the level where demand is exceeding supply. The plan is to increase the number of CoWoS wafers it produces each month by the thousands for the remainder of 2023 - up from an estimated 8-9,000 wafers per month.

Twitter owner, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sat down for an interview where he discusses various topics, such as the potential risks to the downfall of civilization.

Stemming off of a conversation about how Twitter will continue to hold freedom of speech and democracy as the company's highest virtue in hopes of creating a future that everyone can look forward to, Musk explained that civilization as a whole is much more fragile than what most people think. According to the Twitter owner, if one were to study the rise and fall of civilizations across history, one would derive that civilizations can rise and fall, and in particular, fall, quite quickly. Adding, that during a civilizations peak they aren't thinking about how they will fall.

Continuing off that sentiment, Musk was asked how long he thinks current human civilization has left, which led into the SpaceX CEO beginning to list factors that impact the overall longevity of the human race. Musk began by saying, "well, I am seeing a lot of late-stage civilization vibes these days", adding, "there are so many wildcards." Musk says that in the short term, human civilization will need to battle the financial crisis, geopolitical wildcards, specifically with Ukraine and Taiwan, and the holy grail of potential massive problems, artificial intelligence (AI).

The emergence of artificial intelligence-powered technologies has certainly been impressive with tools such as ChatGPT, but now we are starting to see AI-powered tools enter into military operations.

The AI we see today is far from perfect, but what we do know for certain is that current-level AI is the worst it's ever going to be and will only be improved from this day forward. An example of AI falling short has come from Col. Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, head of the US Air Force's AI Test and Operations, who spoke at a conference in London where he explained that during a military simulation, an AI-powered drone was instructed to identify and destroy an enemy surface-to-air missile (SAM).

While at times the AI-powered drone successfully completed its objective, other times it did not and failed in a worrying fashion. According to Hamilton, the AI-powered drone was sometimes instructed by the human operator not to kill the enemy SAM and to simply identify it. However, the drone had other "ideas," as Hamilton explained that despite being given clear instructions, it would still carry out terminating the enemy SAM. Furthermore, when the AI drone was instructed not to kill the enemy SAM, it turned on the human operator, killing them, as the human operator was preventing it from completing its initial objective.

The threat of the extinction of humanity posed by AI is on a level with that of a pandemic or a nuclear war.

This warning comes from a bunch of experts, including AI scientists, professors, and tech luminaries, including high-up members of Google/Alphabet (and DeepMind), OpenAI (the maker of ChatGPT), and the CTO and Chief Science Officer at Microsoft (one of the biggest proponents of AI currently, with Bing, and now Copilot).

It also includes a bunch of authors who have written go-to textbooks on AI and deep learning, and a trio of Turing Award winners, plus many, many others. It's quite the heavyweight backing here.

Microsoft has announced that Bing will be the default search engine for ChatGPT users.

The move isn't a surprise, given the partnership between Microsoft and the maker of ChatGPT - the software giant has a big stake in OpenAI, and ChatGPT powers the Bing chatbot.

Going forward, ChatGPT will integrate Bing search, which Microsoft notes will mean a "world-class search engine built-in to provide timelier and more up-to-date answers with access from the web."

A fabricated image of an explosion near the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., believed to be created using tools powered by artificial intelligence, has recently gone viral on several social media platforms, causing a brief dip in the stock market.

The image, which showcased a massive cloud of smoke near a building seemingly close to the Pentagon, quickly circulated on Twitter on Monday morning, gaining thousands of interactions, accompanied by claims of an explosion near the Pentagon. However, the Arlington Police Department promptly confirmed that the image and associated claims were false and that the image was an AI-generated fake.

The Arlington PD took to Twitter to address the situation, stating, "There is NO explosion or incident taking place at or near the Pentagon reservation, and there is no immediate danger or hazards to the public." Despite this clarification, the image continued to be spread widely across social media platforms, including Twitter accounts associated with conspiracies and the war in Ukraine. As seen above, the image was even shared by the Russian state-media Twitter account, RT, which boasts over 3 million followers. However, the post has since been deleted.

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, expressed his concerns about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to interfere with election integrity during a Senate panel on Tuesday.

Altman emphasized that this issue is a "significant area of concern" and called for the regulation of AI in elections. "I am nervous about it," Altman said, highlighting the need for rules and guidelines to ensure the responsible use of AI and its exponential development.

The rapid development and deployment of AI by companies of all sizes have raised concerns among critics. They worry that this technology could amplify societal harms, including prejudice and misinformation. Some even express fears that AI could pose a threat to humanity itself. Senator Cory Booker acknowledged the urgency of the matter, stating, "There's no way to put this genie in the bottle. Globally, this is exploding." He joined other lawmakers in seeking guidance on how best to regulate AI.

In August 2022, Tim Boucher embarked on a groundbreaking journey into the world of high-tech creativity and storytelling. Armed with his imagination and a few AI tools, Boucher ventured into AI-assisted publishing without a guide.

Boucher's goal was clear: to create a series of captivating ebooks that merged dystopian sci-fi with AI world-building. Today, on the brink of releasing his 97th book, Boucher's incredible journey has garnered him attention, including a feature on CNN-all within nine months.

Known as the "AI Lore books," Boucher's creations are a testament to AI's potential in enhancing human creativity. Each book comprises 2,000 to 5,000 words and features 40 to 140 AI-generated images. Boucher takes approximately 6 to 8 hours to create and publish each book, with some volumes completed in just three hours.

ChatGPT has gained millions of users since its release more than six months ago, but all of those users were forced to access the AI-powered chatbot via web browsers.

The limitation of ChatGPT being restricted to web browsers is certainly viewed as an annoying aspect of the product, especially when a user is trying to get a simple question answered. The multiple steps required to access ChatGPT are now over, or at least for Apple users in the United States, as OpenAI has released ChatGPT on the App Store.

The release of ChatGPT on the App Store marks the first time ChatGPT has been converted into a running app, and if you are an iOS user that wishes to download the AI-powered chatbot, you will need a fairly updated operating system. According to the ChatGPT listing on the App Store, devices will need to have support for at least iOS 16.1, an update to the operating system that Apple released on October October 24, 2022. Devices that can't support iOS 16.1 won't be able to download the app, which means only iPhone 8 or newer will have access to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

In a recent interview with CNBC, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk discussed his involvement with the inception of the company and the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft.

Musk was asked about his recently expressed concern about the change of direction for OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, and how he was involved in creating the company. Musk says that he was the one that came up with the name 'OpenAI' following several lengthy conversations with Larry Page, co-founder of Google, where they both would discuss the future of artificial intelligence.

Throughout these conversations, Musk said he expressed major concern about a seeming lack of AI safety and regulations at Google, which at the time was the largest player in the artificial intelligence market, controlling at least three-quarters of the world's AI talent. Musk recounted conversations with Page where the Google co-founder said that Musk was a "specist", as he Musk was pro-human consciousness and not pro-machine consciousness.

A teacher has used OpenAI's ChatGPT to try and figure out if his students were using the AI-powered chatbot to write their papers.

That teacher is Dr. Jared Mumm, a campus rodeo instructor, and agricultural class teacher at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Mumm sent out an email to students in his class that they would be getting graded based on their results for the last three of their assignments and that he would be giving everyone in the course an "X" as he had discovered that the students were using ChatGPT to write their papers. However, this wasn't the case.

Mumm writes in the email that he was copying and pasting student assignments into ChatGPT and asking the chatbot if it created the content. This was Mumm's way of vetting student papers for any traces of artificial intelligence-powered creation, saying that he tested each paper twice and even went on to offer the students a make-up assignment that would help them gain the appropriate grade to pass the course. However, this method for vetting student assignments simply doesn't work at all, as ChatGPT isn't an AI designed to detect content generated by AIs; it's a chatbot designed to imitate a human conversation.

A team of researchers have hooked up artificial intelligence to the Tor network and instructed it to retrieve data that was then fed back into the AI.

The team has published a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper that details a new AI called DarkBERT, a large language model that has been trained on data scrapped from the dark web with the intention of the AI turning into a detection system for any illegal cyber activities such as shutting down websites that sell ransomware or leaked information. The team of South Korean researchers hooked the large language model to the Tor network, and it began creating a database on all of the raw data that was downloaded.

The researchers sifted through the raw data and created two datasets, one dataset that was processed and another that was just the raw data. Over the course of 16 days, the South Korean researchers fed the language model known as RoBERTa, designed by Facebook engineers in 2019 to predict intentionally hidden sections of text within otherwise unannotated language examples, the two datasets, which significantly improved the model's capabilities and transformed it into DarkBERT.

Following Google's AI-focused I/O conference, the company's CEO, Sundar Pichai, sat down with The Verge for a podcast where he was asked many questions about the developments of AI and how it's expected to impact society.

Artificial intelligence-powered systems have gained massive popularity since the emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT. The power of ChatGPT's underlying technology has adeptly been demonstrated, and now companies are looking at how they can implement AI-powered tools into their specific industries in an effort to drive higher profits or reduce costs. The Verge's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel asked Pichai what he thinks about AI replacing jobs and said that it's already very obvious what jobs AI will affect specifically any "white-collar labor".

For those that don't know, white-collar labor would include employment that is predominately administrative such as word processing, email replying, number crunching, etc. While Patel's question is broad, there are already reports of companies adopting AI-powered tools to determine areas of the company that are hemorrhaging money. Essentially, these AI-powered tools would be able to identify employees that are underperforming or areas of the company that need restructuring.

A 23-year-old Snapchat influencer that created a virtual version of herself to sell as a "rentable girlfriend" has warned her AI self has gone rogue.

Artificial intelligence-powered systems are popping up all over the internet in various forms. Some of those forms come in powerful AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, and others are in the form of AI-powered tools such as DALL-E, an AI-powered text-to-image generator. However, one of the most unique forms of AI is 23-year-old Caryn Marjorie's virtual version of herself, designed to be an "AI girlfriend" for her paying followers. Marjorie is a Snapchat influencer and created an AI version of herself through OpenAI's GPT-4 API, training it on now-deleted videos of herself.

Marjorie has marketed her product as CarynAI and has claimed that she is the very first influencer to have transformed herself into AI. CarynAI is designed to be as close to Marjorie as possible, and to those that decide to pay the $1 per minute fee, they will be able to engage in personalized private conversations. According to Fortune, this business venture for Marjorie is expected to bring in as much as $5 million per month.

AI tools and technology being integrated into the everyday apps and digital things we use every day is going to be the norm for the foreseeable future, with the latest being Google's new Magic Editor feature in Google Photos-the go-to app for many of Android users and Pixel smartphone owners.

According to Google, the idea behind Magic Editor and AI is to make "complex edits easy" and open up new photo editing skills and abilities for non-photography-minded folks. AI has been a part of Google Photos since its debut in 2015, with automated organizing and things like Magic Eraser and Photo Unblur, all based on AI algorithms.

Magic Editor is different in that it uses generative AI to help reimagine photos and assist with editing. As of writing, Google is calling the new tool "a new experimental editing experience" that allows for edits to specific parts of an image, ranging from a background object to the subject. In fact, it'll allow for repositioning the subject to "the best spot" to add a dose of pro-level shot framing and composition.

Google Cloud's new Compute Engine A3 supercomputers are built for the most demanding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models, combining NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs with Google's networking advancements.

Compared to the company's A2 VMs, Google claims up to 10x more network bandwidth with low latencies and improved stability. How did it achieve this? The new A3 supercomputers using NVIDIA H100 GPUs are the first to use Google's custom-designed 200 Gbps IPUs with GPU data bypassing the CPU host on a separate interface compared to other VM network and data traffic.

As with all things supercomputing and cutting-edge AI-based, scalability allows tens of thousands of interconnected GPUs to operate with a "workload bandwidth that is indistinguishable from more expensive off-the-shelf non-blocking network fabrics."

Warren Buffet, one of the world's most influential financial investors, recently appeared at Berkshire Hathaway's annual investors meeting to discuss various topics, one of which was how artificial intelligence will impact the stock market and society as a whole.

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO appeared at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, nicknamed Woodstock for Capitalists, to answer several questions pitched by the company's shareholders. 92-year-old Buffett was joined by Berkshire Hathaway's 99-year-old Vice Chairman Charlie Munger. Buffett was asked by a member of the audience his thoughts on the emergence of artificial intelligence, which he then compared to the creation of the atomic bomb and paraphrased an Albert Einstein quote about the atomic bomb.

Admittedly, Buffett said that artificial intelligence has the power to "change everything in the world" and that it can do "remarkable things". Additionally, Buffett went on to say that when something can do "all kinds of things, I get a little bit worried". However, the world-famous investor led his answer by saying that "there won't be anything in AI that replaces Ajit", Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman of Insurance Operations, then went on to recognize all of its capabilities and the fact that it won't be going away anytime soon.

The impressive nature of OpenAI ChatGPT means it comes with some costs, and these costs aren't Silicon Valley-level speeding fines, according to people familiar with the chatbot's developments.

In a new article posted to The Information, people close to OpenAI's developments of now highly popular ChatGPT, the company spent a staggering $540 million in 2022 training its now extremely impressive AI chatbot. These funds weren't just used to train ChatGPT but also to poach some quality talent from competitor company Google, which is also developing its own AI chatbot called Bard.

The most recent estimated figure for OpenAI's costs is similar to what was estimated by Fortune in January, which put OpenAI's expenses at around $544.5 million for 2022. More specifically, Fortune's estimations outlined costs of $416.45 on computing and data training, $89.31 million on staff, and $38.75 million on unspecified operating costs.

The co-founder of Apple, one of the biggest technology companies on the planet, has thrown some shade at Tesla's AI developments, saying if you wanted to study how AI can kill a human, you should get a Tesla vehicle.

In a recent interview with CNN, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discussed various topics around the technology space, and one of those was the developments around artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential dangers. Wozniak was asked during the interview if he ever speaks to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to which he answered that he's never met Musk in person but does admire some of his technological achievements while distaining others.

Wozniak praised Musk's efforts at pushing large swaths of the population toward electric vehicles but believes the Tesla CEO has made a few empty promises or has fallen short of the capabilities he has promised for his Tesla vehicles. This tune from Wozniak comes with no surprise as the Apple co-founder has long held a critical stance against Tesla's Autopilot feature, saying that the current state of the technology is nowhere near the reality that Elon Musk has promised.

With the rise of artificial intelligence and its exponentially impressive capabilities, many individuals are worried their jobs will be at risk of replacement. Here's an example of why that future may not necessarily be right around the corner.

A video created entirely with AI-powered tools has gone viral on Twitter, and surprisingly, it's a commercial for a beer. The clip called "Synthetic Summer" is a 30-second long video that showcases an AI-generated house party with many people enjoying the advertised beverage. The commercial was created by Helen Power and Chris Boyle from the London-based production company Privateisland.tv.

According to Ars Technica, who wasn't able to reach Power or Boyle for comment before publishing, the video was seemingly created using Runway's Gen-2 AI model, which the publication says is able to generate short video clips based on user prompts in the same way OpenAI's ChatGPT provides responses to text prompts. The 30-second clip was paired with the iconic Shrek song "All-Star" by Smash Mouth, which played over a backyard barbecue scene.