We Can’t Beat Nvidia. - May 31, 2023

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

TRILLION DOLLAR BABY

Nvidia briefly joins $1 trillion valuation club

The highest price target valued it at about $1.6 trillion, on par with Google-parent Alphabet.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-sets-eye-1-trillion-market-value-2023-05-30/

New DGX GH200 Supercomputer

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-unveils-dgx-gh200-supercomputer-and-mgx-systems-grace-hopper-superchips-in-production

hits "1 Exaflops" 

https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/05/28/nvidia-announces-new-1-exaflops-ai-supercomputer-grace-hopper-in-full-production/

extinction letter 

https://time.com/6283386/ai-risk-openai-deepmind-letter/

of course signed by Sam Altman 

https://fortune.com/2023/05/30/sam-altman-ai-risk-of-extinction-pandemics-nuclear-warfare/

but more importantly, Grimes 

https://uproxx.com/indie/grimes-ai-risk-of-extinction/

 

ASSORTED CHIPS

Computex

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/computex-2023-day-1-wrap-up

Arm announces the Cortex X4 for 2024

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/arm-announces-the-cortex-x4-for-2024-plus-a-14-core-m2-fighter/

Intel demos Stable Diffusion running locally on its new AI-accelerated Meteor Lake CPU

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-demos-stable-diffusion-running-locally-on-its-new-ai-accelerated-meteor-lake-cpu/

AMD joins in the AI war with on-chip inferencing demo

https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-joins-in-the-ai-war-with-on-chip-inferencing-demo/

 

BOT ADVICE

NEDA takes down eating disorder chatbot after activists allege it gives dieting advice and recommends calorie tracking and restriction

https://fortune.com/well/2023/05/31/neda-ai-chatbot-harmful-advice/

They fired their human staff and ignored the warnings of the bot’s creator

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff

Activists tested the bot and found it gave weightloss advice including recommending calorie and food restriction

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs1jp1pPkOs/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=98fbd205-c9c5-4486-b41c-b3d191061d47&ig_mid=07C60239-6345-4951-BD07-192D52AA5472

Member of NEDA exec called these posts lies shortly before the bot was taken down

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/neda-chatbot-weight-loss/

 

Quick Bits

 

MOTHER OF BACKDOORS

Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1937046/gigabyte-shipped-hundreds-of-motherboard-models-with-a-firmware-backdoor.html

https://www.securityweek.com/organizations-warned-of-backdoor-feature-in-hundreds-of-gigabyte-motherboards/

 

ULTIMATE DENSITY

Intel could match TSMC for chip transistor density later this year

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-could-match-tsmc-for-chip-transistor-density-later-this-year/

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7375/tsmc-n3-and-challenges-ahead/

Nvidia CEO Says Intel's Test Chip Results For Next-Gen Process Are Good / They are apparently considering having Intel make Nvidia GPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ceo-intel-test-chip-results-for-next-gen-process-look-good

 

MILLION DOLLAR API

Reddit prices 3^rd party apps out with its new API restrictions

https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/31/reddit-may-force-apollo-and-third-party-clients-to-shut-down/

Apollo might be charged $20mil/year given current usage rate

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/31/the-best-reddit-client-app-is-in-danger-due-to-price-demands

Apollo dev got this from convo with Reddit

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/31/reddit-api-changes-pricing-apollo/

 

CAMERA OBSCURA

AI Camera with no lens

https://www.theprompt.io/p/ai-camera-no-lens

Really weird looking

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/ai-camera

Made out of Raspberry PI

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-camera-paragraphica

 

COUNTER-COUNTER STRIKE

Putin orders creation of annual esports 'cyberchampionship,' where CS:GO is banned because of 'one-sided coverage of political events'

https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/31/putin-to-launch-cyber-championship-in-russia-but-csgo-is-banned-18876375/

CS: GO is very popular in Russia

https://www.pcgamer.com/putin-orders-creation-of-annual-esports-cyberchampionship-where-csgo-is-banned-because-of-one-sided-coverage-of-political-events/

This may be due to a custom map created by Finnish journalists containing information about the war in Ukraine

https://kotaku.com/csgo-counter-strike-global-offensive-ukraine-invasion-1850399564

More details: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/03/journalists-use-counter-strike-to-sneak-ukraine-news-into-russia-18715179/