OpenAI urges the US to commit to building 100GW of new energy capacity each year to stay ahead of China in AI, and says “electrons are the new oil”
mobilizing private capital alongside government partners to establish accredited, classified data centers purpose-built for government AI. Bluesky: Nitish Pahwa / @nitishpahwa.com : if I say “my ass i...
The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be
slate.com/technology/2... Nitish Pahwa / @nitishpahwa.com : one more from me for your weekend: I wrote about how the very politicians who've been pushing to ban TikTok for almost a half-decade now are...
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries
This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans had to decide whether to consent to the new terms or take their work and flee. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to , @waxy@xoxo.zone , @juergen_huber...
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior”
Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work. Mastodon: @NeadReport@social.vivaldi.net . Bluesky: @nitis...
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior”
Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work. Bluesky: @nitishpahwa.bsky.social . X: @wi_john Bluesky: N...
Behind the rise of viral earworms on TikTok, whose musical DNA and culture of repetition often leads to the same songs being reused again and again in videos
Gen Z's favorite video app is a blessing in a pandemic. But why does so much of it sound the same? — I downloaded TikTok in April, a month into COVID isolation. Tweets: @brianroemmele , @brianroemm...