AI is risky business

A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created  a new industrial-scale RISC-V CPU in under five hours.

MosaicML has a look under the bonnet of both

Artificial intelligence chips from AMD are about 80 per cent as fast as those from Nvidia but the way its chips are designed means that it is going to match its performance soon.

Reporting a huge third-quarter loss but sees light at end of tunnel 

Micron reported a third-quarter loss and a 57 per cent drop in revenue yesterday, but its Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said that things could only get better.

Another buzz word for us to make money from

The maker of expensive management software, which no one can be sure what it does, SAP has had its eyes lighting up over generative AI, according to its CEO.

What could go wrong

A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found.

Money spent in Ireland

AMD plans to invest $135 million in strategic research and development projects in Ireland over the next four years.

Much more precise

A church in Germany has held the first AI-driven mass in a move that some might feel is a reform too far.

So this is what they meant by the second coming

While waiting for the second coming of Jesus is a bit like waiting for Godot, it appears that an AI version is already amongst us.

The old Turing test is not meaningful enough it needs to make money

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman suggests chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard should be put through a "modern Turing test" where their ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million is evaluated to measure human-like intelligence.

Come back might have been Xilinx purchase 

It is starting to look like AMD's Xilinx purchase might have been part of a cunning plan to claw its way back into AI.