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‘AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals’
In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft’s “Sydney” chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, unleash a deadly virus and steal nuclear codes. AI developers, including Microsoft and OpenAI, responded by saying that large language models, or LLMs, need Read more…
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DeepSeek Has Spent Over $500 Million on Nvidia Chips Despite Low-Cost AI Claims
Nvidia shares plunged 17% on Monday, wiping nearly $600 billion from its market value, after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s breakthrough, but analysts are questioning the cost narrative. DeepSeek said to have trained its December V3 model for $5.6 million, but chip consultancy SemiAnalysis suggested this figure doesn’t reflect total investments. Read more…
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DeepSeek Says Service Degraded Due To ‘Large-Scale Malicious Attack’
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said Monday it had degraded the service, only accepting registration of new users with China-code phones numbers, amid a “large-scale malicious attack.”
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Should Big Tech Plug Its Data Centers Directly Into Power Plants?
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else. (It can take up to Read more…