The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not "bring anything useful for society" despite the company's powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector. Michael Kagan, its chief technology officer, said other uses of processing power such as the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT were more worthwhile than mining crypto. Nvidia never embraced the crypto community with open arms. In 2021, the company even released software that artificially constrained the ability to use its graphics cards from being used to mine the popular Ethereum cryptocurrency, in an effort to ensure supply went to its preferred customers instead, who include AI researchers and gamers. Kagan said the decision was justified because of the limited value of using processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

You want to be reimbursed for what? People with expense accounts may occasionally get rather "creative" when it comes to the items you ask your employer to reimburse. But an "extramarital travel companion" or trip to a strip club just might be pushing things a bit too far. Those were two of the most outrageous charges flagged by AppZen, which builds AI platforms for the business folks who manage and monitor corporate finances. AppZen's AI examined millions of aggregated, anonymized expense report data from December of last year, seeking to identify trends in unauthorized out-of-policy expenses submitted to travel T&E ("travel & expense") departments during the holidays.

One of my part-time jobs is as an internet investigator. When crazy things happen, people want to know more about that crazy thing. In this case, the crazy thing is a Telsa driving super fast over a railroad crossing. It's going so fast that the car gets airborne before eventually losing control. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone was seriously injured, and it is also fortunate that a security camera caught this motion on video. Normally when I need to find the velocity of an object in a video, I just use my typical video analysis techniques in which I mark the position of the object in each frame.

Futurists say that our destiny will be shaped by the Singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Scholars don't agree on the details, but they say it will happen between 30 and 1000 years from today, with most predicting it will emerge in the next century. It will almost certainly have profoundly scary -- and deeply exciting -- consequences. Everything is going to change. The term'Singularity' was first used in the technological sense (as opposed to its definition within physics) by Hungarian American mathematician John von Neumann.