AI Reading for Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Nvidia announces new architecture, says it offers 2.5x performance increase over current generation, or as much as 25x in bigger clusters with faster interconnects, training trillion-parameter models - VentureBeat

Nvidia's quantum infrastructure initiative linking GPUs to third-party quantum hardware. - VentureBeat

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Sam Altman interviewed by Lex Fridman, talks about the ‘blip’, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, open versus closed, Q* and future models. - Lex Fridman

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Humans are good at projecting lifelike illusions on AI, the Eliza effect anthropomorphizing it, all the more as AI gets better - The New Yorker

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Testing Google's Search Generative Experience suggests more searches might be answered directly without the user clicking through to third-party sites, changing the nature of search and the Web - Business Insider

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Perplexity CEO says he can't match what xAI is paying. - Business Insider

But a tiny company might have an edge in room for stock comp to grow, early Facebook got some people from Google. And if you have to pay more than market it can be a red flag, Grok hasn't made a splash, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are far ahead.

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Grok-1 release: 'PartlyOpenAI' . - The Register.

Unclear if people will run with it to create better fine-tuned models like they did with Llama, currently too big for hobbyists to run economically, doesn't seem very competitive yet, might have to release smaller better LLMs to make a splash.

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Deeper dive into Nvidia's new chips: 1200W per GPU with liquid cooling, rackscale superpods of 8 racks with 72 GPUs each, all connected with TB/s NVlink interconnects

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Epic uses ChatGPT to suggest how doctors should code medical diagnoses and procedures - Forbes

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Goldman Sachs chief economist talks about AI's impact on jobs. - CNN

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Props to Congressman Don Beyer for slogging through a masters program in machine learning, sounds like he is still grinding through some CS prereqs like Python and Java though, at one course per semester it might take him a while. - WJLA

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YouTube says realistic-looking AI content must be labeled as AI - Engadget

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