Industries around the world have been hugely affected by global events over the past several years. Wars, famine and water shortages, political unrest and pandemics have all contributed to persistent supply constraints for some of the modern world’s most important commodities. One product that is particularly central to almost every
Continue Reading The chips are down – a look into semiconductors and the automotive industry
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If you’ve used one of the recent high-profile AI chatbots, then you’ve no doubt been wowed by their capability. If you haven’t used one, then you’re in an increasingly small population, as these large language models have attracted enormous publicity.
A lot of the publicity has focussed
Continue Reading Life sentence: teaching large language models to read the book of life
OpenAI, the research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk, has made history by creating artificial intelligence-based bots that can play and compete as a team in one of the most complicated strategy games in esports. They’ve even beaten the current reigning champions.
It may seem like a foregone conclusion that computer
Continue Reading Esports has its ‘Deep Blue’ moment
67% … 84% … 93% … 99.2% … and then stuck interminably at 99.9%. C’mon! Download you unspeakable nuisance! I need to see the next episode.
We might think we still see the dread message “Buffering…” far too frequently, but in reality in any major metropolitan area we are already
Continue Reading Please wait: This article is buffering … Why massive bandwidth might not be the most important aspect of 5G and next generation Internet services
