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James Vincent

James Vincent

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

I mostly cover machines with brains for The Verge, despite being a human without one.

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How much electricity does AI consume?

It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI.

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AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be bornAI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
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Mercedes-Benz tests ChatGPT in cars to answer ‘complex questions’ while on the roadMercedes-Benz tests ChatGPT in cars to answer ‘complex questions’ while on the road
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Google’s EU launch of AI chatbot Bard delayed by privacy concernsGoogle’s EU launch of AI chatbot Bard delayed by privacy concerns
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OpenAI reportedly trained its AI models on YouTube.

That’s according to a report from The Information on the value for Google of YouTube as an AI training dataset. The fact that OpenAI scraped YouTube isn’t surprising, but the company is famously secretive about its training data, partly for competition reasons, and partly, it’s thought, to stymie potential lawsuits.

YouTube’s terms of service forbid using content for anything other than “personal, non-commercial use,” but it’s an open secret in the AI industry that everyone is scraping the web constantly. If Google protests too much, it would end up incriminating itself.

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Stack Overflow survey finds developers are ready to use AI tools — even if they don’t fully trust themStack Overflow survey finds developers are ready to use AI tools — even if they don’t fully trust them
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Are you an information prepper?

The spread of AI-generated misinformation is worrying lots of us, including Ars Technica’s AI reporter Benj Edwards. That’s why he bought the only remaining and regularly updated physical encyclopedia in existence. As Edwards explains: it’s expensive, sure, but at least it’s reliable, and won’t suffer link rot or stealth edits. Is it time to stock up on facts while we can?

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