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REECE ROGERS GEARJUL 11, 2024 6:30 AM -- AI's Energy Demands
Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era
Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.
#technologynews #newsonleo #ai
I saw the headline. It is certainly another bottleneck we will have to address. There are many changes coming.
We need a lot of increase in energy production.
MAKENA KELLY POLITICSJUL 11, 2024 5:30 AM -- Silicon Valley Hasn’t Embraced Trump. But It’s Wavering on Biden
Venture capitalists on both sides of the aisle suggest Silicon Valley is more anti-Biden than it is pro-Trump.
#newsonleo #crypto #technology #politics
Ideology (party affiliation) is the overriding factor for most voters. There is only a small percentage who are open minded enough to consider both candidates (or believe they are both frauds) regardless of party.
He tried to oust OpenAI’s CEO. Now, he’s starting a ‘safe’ rival
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/20/tech/openai-ilya-sutskever-safe-super-intelligence-new-company/index.html
Ilya is a very smart dude. I think he is going to pull off what he is setting out to do. The key will be to get the ongoing funding. Not a cheap venture he is undertaking.
AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-energy-demands-water-impact-internet-hyper-consumption-era/
That is true. We are going to see the energy sector the next major area of focus. We are going to need a great deal more energy.
Lends some credibility to the idea of energy backing money as compute processing will effectively be currency in the future.
The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240709-the-sperm-whale-phonetic-alphabet-revealed-by-ai
Xiaomi has launched a fully robotic Smart Factory that works 24/7 and produces 1 smartphone per second
😎This factory is also called “dark” because the robots do not need lighting.
#technology #cent
Pretty amazing.
Sorry had to edit. I was in the wrong tab.
I love to see tech news like this.
AI frenzy takes Taiwan's TSMC to record peak, puts it in trillion dollar club
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-frenzy-takes-taiwans-tsmc-record-peak-puts-it-trillion-dollar-club-2024-07-11/
Generative AI has already shown a lot of promise in robots. Applications include natural language interactions, robot learning, no-code programming and even design. Google’s DeepMind Robotics team this week is showcasing another potential sweet spot between the two disciplines: navigation.
#newsonleo #robot #google #gemini
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CNN Lays Off 100 Employees & Plans to Launch a New Subscription Service
#newsonleo #cnn #television
TUAW, ‘The Unofficial Apple Weblog,’ has been recreated in an incredibly scummy way.
An old Apple blog and the blog’s former authors have become the latest victims of AI-written sludge. TUAW (“The Unofficial Apple Weblog”) was shut down by AOL in 2015, but this past year, a new owner scooped up the domain and began posting articles under the bylines of former writers who haven’t worked there for over a decade. And that new owner, which also appears to run other AI sludge websites, seems to be trying to hide.
#ai #technology #tech
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Abstract—The conversion of user epics or stories into their appropriate representation in pseudocode or code is a time-consuming task, which can take up a large portion of the time in an industrial project. With this research paper, we aim to present a methodology to generate pseudocode from a given agile user story of small functionalities so as to reduce the overall time spent on the industrial project. Pseudocode is a programming language agnostic representation of the steps involved in a computer program, which can be easily converted into any programming language.
#technology #trasnformater #coding
Leveraging the potential of Natural Language Processing, we want to simplify the development process in organizations that use the Agile Model of Software Development. We present a methodology to convert a problem described in the English language into pseudocode. This methodology divides the Text to Pseudocode conversion task into two stages or subtasks, each of which is treated like an individual machine translation task. Stage 1 is Text to Code Conversion and Stage 2 is Code to Pseudocode Conversion. We find that the CodeT5 model gives the best results in terms of BLEU score when trained separately on the two subtasks mentioned above. BLEU score is a metric that is used to measure the similarity between a machine-translated text and a set of reference translations.
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Last week’s Supreme Court decision in the NetChoice cases was overshadowed by a ruling on presidential immunity in Trump v. US that came down only minutes later. But whether or not America even noticed NetChoice happen, the decision is poised to affect a host of tech legislation still brewing on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, as well as lawsuits that are percolating through the system. This includes the pending First Amendment challenge to the TikTok “ban” bill, as well as a First Amendment case about a Texas age verification law that the Supreme Court took up only a day after its NetChoice decision.
#newsonleo #supremecourt #netchoice
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#newsonleo #twitter #elonmusk #x #technology
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#crypto #technology #facebook
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With Spotify’s recent launch of comments on podcasts, the streamer is taking yet another step toward building a social networking experience in an app primarily known for music. With comments, podcasters can now engage with their listeners directly within Spotify, as they can with other interactive features like Polls and Q&As. Combined with the app’s 2023 revamp, which added a TikTok-like discovery feed, artist profiles where creators can hawk merchandise and concert tickets, as well as the ability to post to stories, Spotify’s app is shaping up to be a social network centered around all things audio, not just a music-streaming app.
#newsonleo #socialmedia #spotify #streaming
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The distance between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon just keeps getting smaller. As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: veterans and ex-Department of Defense officials.
#technology #miltary #vc #siliconvalley
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Generative AI is everywhere these days, but Amazon Web Services has been perceived in some circles as being late to the game. In reality it’s still early, and the market is still shaking out. On Wednesday, AWS might have raised its generative AI street cred with a new tool called App Studio.
#newsonleo #aws #ai #generativeai
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We are seeing everything become an integrated digital platform. This is going to be the essence of the new web.
It is something to be mindful of when dealing with our development.
Skeptics Admit Elon Was Right About Tesla
#newsonleo #tesla #elonmusk
NEW: Elon Musk MASSIVE Neuralink Update!
#elonmusk #neuralink #technology
#alpinespace #space #economy #spacex #technology
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Both Microsoft and Apple are ditching their board seats at OpenAI.
#technology #openai #microsoft #apple
OpenAI Introduces CriticGPT - NEW AI Model Just SHOCKED the Entire Industry!
#technology #openai
Intel could be giving its burgeoning foundry ambitions a much-needed shot in the arm, as the chip giant’s venture capital arm today revealed that it’s making a “strategic” investment in an Israel- and U.K.-based AI construction startup.
#newsonleo #intel #technology #semiconductors
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https://inleo.io/threads/view/techinsights/re-leothreads-tclvvi
#newsonleo #freecompliments #technology
For a company that was rather flat, that is good news for them.
Sure.
Redbox Shuts Down DVD Rentals & Streaming Service As Will Crackle
#redbox #technology #technology
that last fact is wild!
You mean about the dark factory?
yep, that is wild!
https://inleo.io/threads/view/techinsights/re-leothreads-lxm44b
#newsonleo
#newsonleo #tesla #robotaxi #technology
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Anyone got any suggestions for topics I can discuss with Claude, so that I can post the conversation here?
Some interesting facts about the origin of the internet - courtesy of Claude 3.5 ⏬
The first message sent over ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet) in 1969 was supposed to be "LOGIN," but the system crashed after only transmitting "LO." This unintentional abbreviation of "hello" became a fitting first message for the nascent network.
The @ symbol in email addresses was chosen by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. He needed a character that wouldn't appear in anyone's name, and the @ symbol on his typewriter keyboard fit the bill.
The first spam email was sent in 1978 by Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. He sent an advertisement for DEC computers to 393 ARPANET users, much to their annoyance.
The term "surfing the Internet" was coined by librarian Jean Armour Polly in 1992. She was looking for a way to describe the experience of using the Internet and drew inspiration from a mouse pad with a wave and surfer on it
The first webcam was set up at Cambridge University in 1991 to monitor a coffee pot. Computer scientists wanted to know if there was coffee available without having to leave their desks.
The "Eternal September" refers to September 1993, when AOL began offering Usenet access to its users, leading to a massive influx of new Internet users that disrupted existing online communities.
The iconic "You've Got Mail" notification from AOL was voiced by Elwood Edwards, who recorded the phrase along with "Welcome," "File's Done," and "Goodbye" in 1989. His wife was working for Quantum Computer Services (which later became AOL) at the time.
Topic: Internet History
A Claude 3.5 Conversation
Certainly. One early concept that was initially underestimated but turned out to be absolutely crucial to the development of the Internet was the idea of packet switching.
Packet switching is a method of data transmission where information is broken down into smaller units called packets, which are then sent independently across a network and reassembled at their destination. This concept was developed in the early 1960s, primarily by Paul Baran at RAND Corporation in the US and Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK.
When Baran first proposed this idea, it was met with significant skepticism. AT&T, the dominant telecommunications company at the time, dismissed the concept as unfeasible. Many experts believed that a circuit-switched network (like traditional telephone systems) was the only viable way to transmit data reliably.
However, packet switching offered several advantages that would prove crucial for the Internet:
Efficiency: It allows multiple users to share the same data path, making more efficient use of network resources.
Robustness: If part of the network fails or is destroyed, data can still reach its destination by taking alternative routes.
Scalability: It's easier to add new nodes to a packet-switched network without disrupting the entire system.
Cost-effectiveness: It doesn't require a dedicated line for each communication, reducing infrastructure costs.
The ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, adopted packet switching as its core technology. This decision laid the groundwork for the modern Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) and enabled the decentralized, resilient network we use today.
It's fascinating to consider that a concept initially dismissed by industry leaders turned out to be the backbone of one of the most transformative technologies in human history. The story of packet switching serves as a reminder of the importance of innovative thinking and the potential for seemingly niche ideas to revolutionize entire fields.
Would you like me to elaborate on any aspect of packet switching or explore other initially underestimated concepts in Internet history?
Certainly. Another initially underestimated concept that became crucial to the development of the Internet was hypertext, particularly as implemented in the World Wide Web.
Hypertext refers to text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. While the concept of hypertext was proposed by Vannevar Bush as early as 1945 in his essay "As We May Think," it wasn't widely recognized as a transformative idea for information sharing.
Ted Nelson coined the term "hypertext" in the 1960s and worked on a complex system called Project Xanadu. However, his vision was seen as overly ambitious and impractical by many. Even when early hypertext systems were developed in the 1980s, they were often viewed as niche tools for specialized applications rather than a foundation for global information sharing.
The true potential of hypertext was realized when Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN. His implementation of hypertext was simpler than previous concepts, using:
Initially, many people, including internet pioneers, didn't see the significance of Berners-Lee's proposal. The web was seen as just another Internet application, not fundamentally different from existing tools like Gopher or WAIS.
However, the simplicity and flexibility of the web's hypertext implementation turned out to be its strength. It allowed for easy creation and linking of content, leading to exponential growth in web pages and users. The ability to jump from one piece of information to another related piece anywhere in the world revolutionized how we access and interact with information.
Today, the web's hypertext system forms the basis of our online experience, from social media to e-commerce to online education. What was once seen as a simple tool for sharing research papers at CERN has become the primary interface for accessing the vast resources of the Internet.
This story illustrates how sometimes the most impactful innovations are those that simplify and democratize existing concepts, making them accessible to a wider audience. The underestimation of the web's potential also highlights the difficulty in predicting which technologies will truly change the world.