it's time for Tech news where we report on the technology that will eventually
replace us and report on itself Microsoft is accelerating development of
its own AI chip to avoid Reliance on NVIDIA's products the chips have been in
the works since at least 2019 are built on tsmc's five nanometer process and are
known internally as project Athena because perhaps nothing says god of
wisdom and War like modern AI select employees at Microsoft and openai
already have access to the new chips for testing with large language models or
llms and we might see a full launch as early as next year it's uncertain yet
whether they will truly rival NVIDIA's own high level AI chips but they don't
really have to considering that llms take tens of thousands of gpus and
NVIDIA h100s are selling for over forty thousand dollars on eBay Microsoft
stands to save bundles by simply using its own in-house chips it could make
even more by offering those ships to its Azure customers though it's not clear
whether the company will sell access to them the total number number of
high-level gpus NVIDIA can pump out is a major bottleneck to AI development so
just imagine how much faster Microsoft will be able to stitch Bing chat's brain
back together the next time Sydney goes off the deep end the New York police
department has announced a series of high-tech additions to their Arsenal
including at least two R2D2 looking security droids if R2D2 was for sitting
on a gun that shoots tracking devices and two police Digi dogs some of you
might recognize these as Boston dynamics's spot model which does
resemble a dog in the sense that it has four legs and a massive camera sticking
out of its ass right there officer that's where I was
cameraed that's how you get the dog snooze you put the camera right in the
dog's ass the dog robots were actually first contracted by the NYPD two years
ago before the contract was canceled because critics found it creepy and
dystopian what what crazy now they've acquired two for
seventy five thousand dollars each using acid forfeiture funds which is money and
property taken for people who may or may not have committed a crime so don't
worry it's not tax dollars the police stole it fair and square as for the
security droids they're essentially just mobile cameras that cruise around at a
brisk walking pace like Space Age trash cans they will initially be chaperoned
by a human police officer presumably to prevent them from getting jumped in an
Alleyway and forcibly decommissioned by a bat with a nail through it
or to just pick them up if they fall over they look very bottom heavy yeah
push mirror to cow tipping try robot tipping and Reddit has announced that it
will be charging businesses that use its API meaning that AI developers will no
longer be allowed to use Reddit as a free will of training data instead
they'll have to pay for access to the world's Premier slurry of product
reviews memes and unhinged bigotry the
exact price AI devs will have to pay is currently unknown but according to the
announcement the changes are primarily directed at third parties who require
additional capabilities higher usage limits and broader usage rights and will
take effect following a 60-day notice period the motive for the changes was
unstated but Reddit is planning to go public later this year and the
possibility of garnering future profits from companies seeking to train their
large language models could change reddit's valuation immensely
EO Steve Huffman described the company's authentic conversations as particularly
valuable to llms saying there's a lot of stuff on the site that you'd only ever
say in therapy or AA or never at all
yeah there's also a lot of stuff on that site that no one should ever say to
anyone ever very authentic though authentically
racist nothing hits like a hard r on Reddit now
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I've been working hard while Google is trying to convince us that we don't need
chat gbt because we already have ai at home employees who tested Bard are
giving it glowing criticisms one tester
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response to these criticisms Bard told me privately Milady as a 32 year old
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obviously and also none of that happened I made it up Bungie has decided to
expand the anti-cheating policies in Destiny 2. specifically to curb the use
of things like programmable controllers and keyboard adapters that allow complex
macros and aim assist Activision has done basically the same thing but Bungie
has recognized the need to balance restricting cheating and maintaining
accessibility through adaptive controllers while I don't use an
Adaptive controller since I'm only disabled on the inside I applaud the
effort to find a solution for all Gamers the US's National reconnaissance office
plans to launch a sensor satellite prototype into space within the next
year that will be able to track moving targets back down on Earth the nro's
director says the sensor will provide day night all weather detection and
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