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🧵 In today's edition:
💪 Nvidia continues to dominate
🌳 Is Generative AI Bad for the Environment?
💼 Don’t use GPT for your resume
🤑 AI Fundraising News
🤖 Top AI News
💪 Nvidia continues to dominate
Nvidia has been hogging the air recently, and the AI world is on notice.
Last week, Nvidia hit a market cap of nearly $1T, with share price up 195% YTD as of last Friday.
This week, Nvidia continues to make headlines, unveiling a range of new AI products:
Nvidia DGX GH200 Supercomputer, built for the GenAI age. They claim that this supercomputer can compete with the Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the most powerful supercomputer on the planet.
Nvidia ACE, which uses generative AI in video game development, allows players to interact with non-playable characters in the game by talking to them. Yes, you read that right. Check out this insane demo.
Currently, the supercomputer will be available to Google, Meta, and Microsoft to test, with a global release by year’s end.
And, of course, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had to be pictured buying groceries like an ordinary guy as if he isn’t worth $35B.
Really starting to like this guy.
Read more: Yahoo Finance | Recap of Nvidia Announcements at Computex
🌳 Is Generative AI Bad for the Environment?
Credit: NameCheap
Do you ever hear your laptop fan go wild when you have 2 Chrome windows open with 20 tabs each?
Now imagine how much heat is generated by a generative AI model receiving close to 10 million queries a DAY.
This is nothing new. We have always known that generative AI technology consumes a lot of energy and has a large carbon footprint.
Here’s some perspective:
With 110 million parameters, AI model BERT consumed the energy of a round-trip transcontinental flight for one person.
It’s estimated that GPT-3, which has 175 billion parameters, consumed 1,287-megawatt hours of electricity and generated 552 tons of carbon dioxide. That’s just for preparing the model - before consumers start using it.
The good news is that AI can run on renewable energy, and some companies are already publishing the carbon footprints of their AI models to track their GHG emissions.
Simple solutions, like “scheduling computations” during times of the day when renewable energy is more available, can reduce emissions by a factor of 30 to 40 compared to using a grid dominated by fossil fuels.
Obviously, much more research is needed to make generative AI models more efficient, but it’s important to start the discussion sooner rather than later.
Read more: Gizmodo
💼 Don’t use GPT for your resume
Mashable
It’s officially graduation season, and unfortunately, college seniors are entering a very uncertain job market.
So it’s only natural that the Class of 2023 are turning to generative AI bots like ChatGPT to write their resumes and cover letters to help bolster their chances of landing a job.
According to the “Class of” report by iCIMS, 47% of college seniors are using chatbots to write their applications.
But beware: 39% of HR professionals view using AI tech during hiring as a deal breaker.
That’s a bummer, huh?
Looks like it might just be worth it to write your resumes and cover letters in the traditional way - on MS Word with extended margins and 8.5 font.
Read more: Mashable
🤑 AI Fundraising News
Nia Health Raises €3.5M in Seed Funding to offer AI-based digital solutions to support patients with chronic skin conditions through machine vision, natural language processing, and teledermatology.
Singapore’s AI-Based Marketing Unicorn “Insider” Raises $105 Million To Finance M&A
🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries
Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.
Arm launches new chips for faster smartphone performance during Computex [TechCrunch] - Arm has introduced two products designed to improve smartphone performance during Computex. The first product is the Arm Cortex-X4, the fastest CPU Arm that has been created to date. The second product is the Arm Immortalis-G720, which aims to replicate the feel of console gameplay on mobile devices. (Read more)
AI in dentistry: Researchers find that artificial intelligence can create better dental crowns [Fox] - Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed an AI algorithm that uses 3D machine learning to create better dental crowns. The AI algorithm analyzes data from the teeth adjacent to the crown, resulting in a more natural, precise fit than traditional crown-making methods. Clinical trials have already begun using generative AI to create dental crowns, and the team hopes to leverage the technology to build dentures and bridges in the future. (Read more)
🐦 Tweet of the day
🧠 Great segment on CNN re: AI’s ability to read someone’s mind.
Researchers have figured out a way to translate scans of brain activity into words using the very same artificial intelligence technology that powers the groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT cnn.it/436SPKT
— #CNN (#@CNN)
4:30 AM • May 25, 2023
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