AI & Robotics

Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that a third of nuclear power plants are in talks with tech companies to power their new data centers. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs projected that AI is going to drive a 160% increase in power usage by data centers from now until 2030. That is going to take carbon dioxide emissions to more than double current levels. Each ChatGPT query is estimated…

Stability AI is expanding its growing roster of generative AI models, quite literally adding a new dimension with the debut of Stable Video 4D. While there is a growing set of gen AI tools for video generation, including OpenAI’s Sora, Runway, Haiper and Luma AI among others, Stable Video 4D is something a bit different. Stable Video 4D builds on the foundation of Stability AI’s existing…

Oil and gas operations generate an enormous amount of data — a seismic survey in New Mexico, for instance, can provide a file that is a petabyte all by itself.  “To turn that into an image that you can make a decision with is a 100 exaflop operation,” Bill Braun, Chevron CIO, told the audience at this year’s VB Transform. “It’s an incredible amount of compute.” To support such data…

As we approach the two-year anniversary of ChatGPT and the subsequent “Cambrian explosion” of generative AI applications and tools, it has become apparent that two things can be true at once: The potential for this technology to positively reshape our lives is undeniable, as are the risks of pervasive bias that permeate these models. In less than two years, AI has gone from supporting everyday…