Curated Commons // Edition 135
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Physical products with generative AI in backend are here
An AI clock that uses ChatGPT to generate tiny poems that tell the time is a sign of the times we live in! - Read here
A Big 4 firm gets pulled up bigly
A Dubai court has ordered KPMG to pay up $231 Mn to a group of investors who said they lost money due to the poor quality of audit. Will this help? - Read here ($)
Making art with code
Good read on ‘generative art’ and what it is. - Read here
GENERATIVE ART
Art created using autonomous processes
AUTONOMOUS PROCESS
A process not under direct human control
TYPES OF AUTONOMOUS PROCESS
Randomness, Rules and Natural Systems
How bad is ChatGPT for the planet?
Quite, going by a new estimate of the amount of water required to cool the data centers powering it. - Read here
in training GPT-3 alone, , which is partnered with OpenAI, consumed a whopping 185,000 gallons of water — which is…equivalent to the amount of water needed to cool a nuclear reactor…ChatGPT needs to 'drink' [the equivalent of] a 500 ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of roughly 20-50 questions and answers.
Another related piece on the human and environmental costs of Generative AI - Read here
Shut nuclear plants, re-open coal plants
Germany sure has its own way of doing things. They just shut down the last existing nuclear plants and, to make up for the shortfall, are reopening old coal-fired power plants. - Read here
Err, what?
This is a real description of a new startup. I suppose we just lost the right to say that ChatGPT hallucinates! - Read here
CryptoGPT rolled out a Web3-focused AI assistant and is now developing its ZK rollup layer 2 blockchain and a data-to-AI engine.
The company’s tagline?
“Turn every task in your daily life into a source of income”
The dark side of using AI to design drugs
A piece from last year, but instructive given all the excitement around AI - Read here ($)
Synthetic voices to cause real damage by ‘swatting’ people
This is extremely worrying. Criminals are using synthetic voices to direct law enforcement to houses of unsuspecting people making them suspects - Read here
What is the role of arts & humanities in AI
Good, thoughtful read - Read here
Perhaps the most fundamental contribution of the arts and humanities is to make vivid the fact that the development of AI is not a matter of destiny, but instead involves successive waves of highly consequential human choices. It’s important to identify the choices, to frame them in the right way, and to raise the question: who gets to make them and how?
How did Tokyo become an anti-car paradise?
How related is usage of car to quality of life? - Read here
More interesting reads:
A long-read on the risks of AI - Read here ($)
Can Intel turn around? - Read here ($)
Good read on the burgeoning space launch market - Read here
Rupert Murdoch has his own ‘Succession’ going on - Read here ($
If a job can be done remotely, should it be done ‘onshore’? - Read here ($)
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