AI Training
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Bleeding the grid dry: AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity
If you ask ChatGPT to explain the impact AI is having on the electric grid, it cheerfully (and without a hint of irony) explains all the ways AI consumes vast amounts of power. Training models? Yup, that takes a few electrons. Answering questions – such as how much electricity is used to answer a question?… Continue reading
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Adversarial AI: Can the training be tricked?
Modern AI systems continue to wow us with their ability to produce creative works of text, choose the right exposure for a photograph, or keep our car centered within the lanes of a winding highway. But can we really trust them to do the right thing in every circumstance? What if a nefarious actor tried… Continue reading
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Reaching the end of the Internet
In a 2002 television commercial for DirecTV’s blazing fast DSL Internet service, a man is seen aimlessly browsing the Internet, clicking link after link. Suddenly, his computer informs him that he has “reached the end of the Internet” and has “seen everything there is to see.” He stares at the screen in amazement. Going back… Continue reading