Every so often, a startup emerges in Silicon Valley with a mission so outrageous that it blurs the line between genuine innovation and satire. The latest example is Mechanize, founded by renowned AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. Following its recent announcement, the startup and Besiroglu faced significant backlash on social media platforms like X. Mechanize’s stated […]
ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, is emerging as less power-hungry than previously thought, according to a new study by Epoch AI, a nonprofit research institute. The findings suggest that the energy demands of ChatGPT are heavily contingent on its usage and the underlying AI models at play. Epoch AI’s analysis challenges commonly-quoted statistics […]
An AI benchmarking organization has come under fire for its lack of transparency regarding funding from OpenAI, leading to allegations of impropriety within the AI community. The nonprofit, Epoch AI, which primarily receives funding from Open Philanthropy, disclosed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported its development of FrontierMath—a series of advanced tests designed to […]