Saturday, June 15
Daily News Stuff 15 June 2024
Never Say Anything Edition
Never Say Anything Edition
Top Story
- In its ongoing drive to earn public trust OpenAI has appointed the former director of the NSA to its board. (CNBC) (archive site)
Yep, that's gonna work.
- In a recent AI study, 270 humans failed the Meta-Turing test. (Live Science)
The reason: They judged ChatGPT to be human.
Tech News
- Newton's thunder bird finally has a face. (Natural History Museum)
The Australian bird - seven feet tall and weighing over five hundred pounds - was first discovered as partial fossil remains in 1896, with a complete skull found in 1913. But that skull was so distorted that it was hard to identify precisely what kind of bird it was.
Now much better-preserved examples have been found.
It's a goose.
- Meta has scrubbed plans to train AI on data from European users. (Tech Crunch)
In response to questions, Meta shrugged and simply said "Europe".
- A single modern AI GPU can use 3.7MWh of power per year. (Tom's Hardware)
420W. That's about 420W continuously.
So... Yes. I bet it can.
- ASRock's new AMD Siena server motherboard supports 32 SATA drives. (Serve the Home)
And only comes with 1Gb Ethernet. They're just doing this to annoy me, aren't they?
- India's Twitter alternative Koo, billed as a Twitter alternative for India, is kind of dead. (Rest of World)
Has that trick ever worked? I mean, without spending trillions of dollars on a nightmare surveillance state so that you can ban the original?
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