🧠 The secret to Nvidia's AI success

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It’s Friday, September 8, and today we’re covering the secret to Nvidia’s remarkable success with AI, Elon’s struggle for the future of AI, Google testing watermarked content for their search engine, 4 amazing AI tools + 1 ChatGPT prompt for you to use and improve your business or career, plus a lot more.

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🚀 BIG TECH & STARTUPS

Google tests watermark to identify AI images (3 min read)

Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool that labels whether images have been generated with AI.

The tool, called SynthID, will initially be available only to users of Google’s AI image generator Imagen, which is hosted on Google Cloud’s machine learning platform Vertex. Users will be able to generate images using Imagen and then choose whether to add a watermark or not. The hope is that it could help people tell when AI-generated content is being passed off as real, or help protect copyright.

Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI (20 min read)

This article delves into Elon Musk's journey in the world of AI. It shares stories about his conversations with Larry Page before Google acquired DeepMind, his part in establishing OpenAI, the reasons behind his separation from OpenAI, and various other tales. Musk's xAI project is presently focused on building an AI bot that can write computer code, think critically, and seek knowledge to rival OpenAI's GPT series.

🧑‍🚀 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

ChatGPT traffic slips again for third month in a row (2 min read)

ChatGPT's website traffic has been decreasing for three consecutive months, but there are indications that this decline is starting to slow down. The return of schools in September could potentially have given a boost to ChatGPT's traffic and usage. It's worth noting that ChatGPT continues to rank among the top 30 websites globally.

The secret to Nvidia’s AI success (4 min read)

Nvidia is currently enjoying remarkable success. Over the past decade, the company has achieved a thousandfold improvement in the performance of its chips for AI tasks, resulting in substantial profitability.

During his keynote speech at the IEEE's Hot Chips 2023 symposium on high-performance microprocessors in Silicon Valley, Nvidia's chief scientist, Bill Dally, gave us a look behind the curtain of the journey that brought the company to this point in history.

🧠 MISCELLANEOUS

Did a Right-Wing Network Interview a Fake AI Trump? (2 min read)

On Thursday, former Fox News commentator John Solomon and co-host Amanda Head had an “exclusive interview” with the former president on the right-wing Real America’s Voice network. Users viewing the content on the right-wing media site Rumble were quick to point out various irregularities with Trump’s speech.

‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it (10 min read)

Mustafa Suleyman, one of Deepmind’s co-founders, explores AI's astonishing potential. He emphasizes the need to avoid catastrophe by responsibly harnessing AI's power advocating for ethical development and proactive measures in a rapidly advancing AI landscape.

AI-powered drone beats human champion pilots (2 min read)

Developed by researchers at the University of Zurich, a drone using Swift AI won 15 out of 25 races against ‘world champion drone pilots’ and clocked the fastest lap on a course where drones reach speeds of 50mph (80km/h) and endure accelerations up to 5g, enough to make many people black out.

But Swift was not invincible. It lost 40% of its races against humans and crashed several times.