Artist builds gentle giants from scrap wood and hides them throughout his city

Its rather like having a Porsche parked outside your front door.

and lit the fuse for a generative AI race within Big Tech.Generative AI in 2023 has been a wild ride that has aged us much more than a year.

it was a pretty big year for AI.and Scarlett Johanssons voice and image were used to promote a 90s yearbook AI app.Even media platforms Shutterstock.

Pushed deepfakes into the mainstreamDeepfakes.it became the fastest-growing app of all time.

most AI-generated content reads like that of a high school student that didnt do all the reading prone to inaccuracies and slightly robotic.

hundreds of thousands of pirated books.000 liters of clean freshwater (enough for producing 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles) and the water consumption would have been tripled if training were done in Microsofts Asian data centers.

it is essential to note that water “consumed” is released back into the atmosphere through cooling towers and is not “lost” from the water cycle.would need to “drink” a 500-milliliter water bottle to finish a fundamental discussion with a user of around 25–50 questions.

water use might have increased threefold if the data had been generated in the business’ less energy-efficient Asian data center.as freshwater scarcity has become one of the most pressing challenges shared by all of us in the wake of the rapidly growing population.