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'Taxi Driver' screenwriter calls AI 'smarter' and 'better' than Oscar-nominated writers
"The Agency" star Katherine Waterston admitted she finds AI generally "terrifying" for Hollywood and beyond. Screenwriter Paul Schrader, known for his critically acclaimed works like "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "First Reformed," surprised fans when he shared his apparent approval of artificial intelligence. In a series of posts last week, the Oscar-nominee marveled at AI and ChatGPT's capabilities when it came to his profession. "I've just come to realize AI is smarter than I am. Has better ideas, has more efficient ways to execute them," he wrote on Jan 16. "Taxi Driver" screenwriter and director Paul Schrader surprised fans with his interest in artificial intelligence.
We're getting a better idea of AI's true carbon footprint
To test its new approach, Hugging Face estimated the overall emissions for its own large language model, BLOOM, which was launched earlier this year. It was a process that involved adding up lots of different numbers: the amount of energy used to train the model on a supercomputer, the energy needed to manufacture the supercomputer's hardware and maintain its computing infrastructure, and the energy used to run BLOOM once it had been deployed. The researchers calculated that final part using a software tool called CodeCarbon, which tracked the carbon emissions BLOOM was producing in real time over a period of 18 days. Hugging Face estimated that BLOOM's training led to 25 metric tons of carbon emissions. But, the researchers found, that figure doubled when they took into account the emissions produced by the manufacturing of the computer equipment used for training, the broader computing infrastructure, and the energy required to actually run BLOOM once it was trained. While that may seem like a lot for one model--50 metric tons of carbon emissions is the equivalent of around 60 flights between London and New York--it's significantly less than the emissions associated with other LLMs of the same size.
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NASA is about to grab a chunk of rock from asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to touch an asteroid. It has been orbiting the space rock Bennu, which is currently more than 320 million kilometres from Earth, since December 2018. On 20 October it will take a sample to bring home. The hope is that this material will help us understand more about the earliest history of our planet. To take the sample, OSIRIS-REx will extend a robotic arm and use it as a sort of pogo stick on the asteroid's surface.
On Second Thought: Microsoft's artificial intelligence bot, Tay
Microsoft came up with the great idea of creating an artificial intelligence bot on Twitter, in the image of a teenage girl named Tay, and making her capable of learning through interactions with real people online. Within a few hours, she was a racist, a sexist and a Holocaust denier, and she was spewing all this with gusto, humor and abandon. Microsoft had to take her down before she started winning delegates for the presidential nomination. Microsoft tried to make some adjustments to Tay and put her back online, but she quickly started boasting about smoking drugs in front of the police. Tay reportedly now wants to hang out with Siri.