Google Releases Data On How Much Energy An AI Prompt Uses
“In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second. The company also provided average estimates for the water consumption and carbon emissions associated with a text prompt to Gemini.”
On AI Replacing Search: A Deeper Dive
“How The Largest Gathering Of US Police Chiefs Is Talking About AI”
“The hype focused on three uses of AI in policing. The flashiest was virtual reality, exemplified by the booth from V-Armed, which sells VR systems for officer training… The second focus was on the changing way police departments are collecting and interpreting data… Finally, as in other industries, AI is also coming for the drudgery of […]
AI Is Making Conversations About Explicit Content More Urgent
“It’s Time To Retire The Term “User””
Will AI Take People’s Jobs? “We’ve Been Here Before”
“In 1930, the prominent British economist John Maynard Keynes had warned that we were “being afflicted with a new disease” called technological unemployment. Labor-saving advances, he wrote, were “outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour.” There seemed to be examples everywhere. New machinery was transforming factories and farms. Mechanical switching […]
Eric Schmidt: A.I. Will Change How Science Is Done
“Thanks to open-source resources, we’re beginning to see a pattern where industry hits certain benchmarks and then academia steps in to refine the model. After DeepMind’s release of AlphaFold, Minkyung Baek and David Baker at the University of Washington released RoseTTAFold, which uses DeepMind’s framework to predict the structures of protein complexes instead of only […]