Two from India's OfficeChai. First up, May 11:
AI is impacting all kinds of jobs, whether you’re a software engineer or the Pope.
The newly-crowned Pope has indicated that AI influenced the choice of his name. Robert Francis Prevost was chosen as the Pope and the leader of the global Catholic Church two days ago. As per Papal tradition, he chose a name different from his own after becoming Pope — Prevost said that his Papal name would be Leo XIV. But he said that the recent developments in AI played a part in choosing that particular name.
“I chose to take the name Leo XIV,” the newly-crowned Pope said. “There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour,” he added....
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Also at OfficeChai, May 9:
Many tech leaders have said that AI will soon become too cheap to meter, but there might be a lower bound to how cheap it can be.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, believes that the ultimate limiting factor on AI cost won’t be silicon or software, but rather the fundamental energy required to power these increasingly sophisticated systems. His perspective offers a compelling insight into the long-term economic and strategic implications of the AI revolution, especially as the demand for AI continues to surge, putting immense pressure on existing infrastructure and energy resources.
Altman articulated this vision with characteristic directness to US lawmakers. “I think it’s hard to overstate how important energy is to the future here,” he said.....
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