Jay Peters
AWS now lets you rent instances of Nvidia H100 GPUs.
The H100 GPUs have become a hot commodity with the AI boom, so I’m guessing this AWS new service will be pretty popular.
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Richard Lawler
Gran Turismo 7’s big Spec II update launches tonight.
Expect a new progression dashboard, new cars, and new tracks, as well as some PS5-only tweaks like 4-player split screen and the Sophy AI driver agent.
Sophy has been touted as a scientific breakthrough made with reinforcement training to master both superhuman lap times and racing etiquette (unlike the people you race online in GT and Forza). Now, Sophy 2.0 can drive 340 cars (up from four in its previous iteration) on nine tracks. However, GTPlanet notes it’s unclear how many instances of Sophy can take the track at once.
Jess Weatherbed
I left Qualcomm’s annual tech summit in Maui lightly sunburnt, cautiously optimistic, and confused as hell.
Allison Johnson
Makena Kelly
The Senate has two big AI meetings today.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been holding a series of information sessions called “AI Insight Forums” for the last few weeks.
The third and fourth installments of these meetings are set to take place on Wednesday, focusing on effects AI could have on the workforce and the financial and health sectors.
Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended the first meeting in September, but we won’t see any huge names like these today. Microsoft and Indeed are planning to send representatives, but mostly civil society groups will be in attendance.
Emma Roth
LinkedIn Premium subscribers can soon use AI to help find their next job.
LinkedIn’s new AI-powered job coach can tell Premium users whether they’d be a good fit for a particular role, what skills they need to stand out, as well as answer questions about the company that’s hiring.
Outside of job-hunting, LinkedIn’s AI can also provide summaries and insights about the posts in subscribers’ feeds. This all adds to the growing number of AI-enhanced tools on LinkedIn and is rolling out to a select group of Premium subscribers to start.
Thomas Ricker
“AI” named word of the year.
Purists might argue that an initialism formed by the words “artificial” and “intelligence” should be disqualified for Collins’ most notable word of 2023. But if nothing else, it confirms that society is at the peak of inflated expectations in the hype cycle before the eventual plunge into the trough of disillusionment.
See also: VR.
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Jay Peters
Vice President Kamala Harris announced the US AI Safety Institute.
The institute will create “guidelines, tools, benchmarks, and best practices” to help mitigate risks from AI, according to a fact sheet. The news of the institute follows President Joe Biden’s major executive order regarding rules for generative AI that he signed on Monday.