1. A Chinese team has unveiled what it calls the world’s first “brain-like” large language model – an artificial intelligence system designed to use less energy, perform better and operate without Nvidia chips. Developed by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation in Beijing, SpikingBrain 1.0 mimics how the human brain fires only the neurons it needs. So instead of activating an entire network like ChatGPT and other mainstream AI tools, it selectively responds to input, saving power and speeding up response time. Thanks to this design, the model can learn from just a sliver of training data – less than 2 per cent of the amount conventional systems need – while staying fast and efficient even when processing long text. In some cases, it ran up to 100 times faster than traditional models, according to a non-peer reviewed technical paper posted on arXiv, an open-access research repository. (Source: scmp.com)
2. Geoffrey Hinton on AI and employment:
What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers. It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system. (Source: ft.com)
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