FBI Shuts Down Russian AI-Enhanced Bot Farm
The US Justice Department has announced the disruption of a Russian-government-backed bot farm that used AI tools in a massive propaganda campaign. Using AI to create fake social media ...Full Article
MIT Researchers Introduce New AI-Driven SQL for Database Analysis
In today's data-driven world, the ability to conduct complex statistical analyses on tabular data is crucial for deriving meaningful insights from raw data. However, the complexity and vast amounts ...Full Article
Virga: Australia’s AI Powerhouse
Australia has officially added another supercomputer to the TOP500 list with the implementation of Virga. Officially coming online in June 2024, Virga is the newest HPC system to come ...Full Article
Generative AI to Account for 1.5% of World’s Power Consumption by 2029
Generative AI will take on a larger chunk of the world’s power consumption to keep up with the hefty hardware requirements to run applications. “AI chips represent 1.5% of electricity use over ...Full Article
Yes, Big Data Is Still a Thing (It Never Really Went Away)
A funny thing happened on the way to the AI promised land: People realized they need data. In fact, they realized they need large quantities of a wide variety ...Full Article
NCSA’s SEAS Team Makes Advanced Computing More Efficient and Accessible
High-performance computing (HPC) can often be challenging for researchers to use because it requires expertise in working with large datasets, scaling the software, and selecting the best user interface. ...Full Article
Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations
Although AI tools are rapidly advancing and becoming a part of just about every sector, the AI community is still looking for a standardized means to assess the capabilities ...Full Article
US Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual AI Spending, but Critics Remain Unconvinced
Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, and three colleagues want the US government to spend at least $32 billion annually by 2026 for non-defense related AI systems. This includes spending on ...Full Article
Using AI to Fix AI: OpenAI’s CriticGPT
Amid the current AI explosion, one of the main challenges facing this technology’s implementation is that AI can sometimes make mistakes. What’s more, the black-box nature of many AI ...Full Article
AI-augmented HPC and the Inflation of Science and Technology
Everyone is aware of the inflationary model of the early universe in which the volume of space expands exponentially then slows down. AI-augmented HPC (AHPC for short) has started ...Full Article
