Regardless of Elon Musk advocating for an industry-wide pause on AI coaching lower than a month in the past, signing an open letter to AI {industry} giants as a result of fears of what poorly thought-out progress in AI growth might imply in the long run, he seems to have modified his tune, kicking off a serious push with Twitter’s synthetic intelligence undertaking.
Based on Business Insider (opens in new tab), Musk has bought round 10,000 GPUs and recruited AI expertise from DeepMind for the undertaking.
Sources aware of the matter have famous that the AI growth undertaking continues to be within the preliminary phases, however the fairly important quantity of GPU purchases does present how devoted Musk is to the trigger. The precise function of the AI undertaking stays unclear – will it compete with ChatGPT and Google Bard as a useful chatbot, or maybe be used to enhance Twitter’s person expertise (badly wanted, although I’m unsure AI is the reply)?
The place did all of the GPUs go?
Regardless of Twitter’s ongoing and really public monetary woes, the GPUs would value tens of tens of millions of {dollars}, which can additional show that Musk sees the AI undertaking as a precedence regardless of the unstable monetary state of affairs the corporate faces proper now. The GPUs are anticipated to be deployed to Twitter’s remaining two information centres.
Along with new {hardware}, Twitter is hiring extra engineers to handle the undertaking. Earlier this yr the corporate recruited engineers from Deep Thoughts, an AI analysis group and a subsidiary of Alphabet, and Musk has been overtly searching for expertise within the AI {industry} to compete with OpenAI.
Musk already spoke up about his early imaginative and prescient for his ChatGPT competitor, touting it as an improved ‘anti-woke’ model that may ‘get rid of’ safeguarding protocols and doubtlessly enable malicious customers to spew hate speech and fascist, racist propaganda. If that’s something to go off of, we’re anxiously awaiting to listen to extra from the moody tech large and see the place the undertaking might take AI.
If Musk is planning on taking the AI undertaking way more severe than initially thought, we may even see a GPU scarcity cropping up which might be dangerous information for avid gamers. We noticed comparable shortages a couple of years in the past when GPUs had been being swept up by crypto miners and it was virtually inconceivable to discover a GPU, notably at an inexpensive worth, and the AI arms race might see extra GPUs being purchased in bulk, in addition to specially-designed GPUs hoovering up parts, doubtlessly main to a different scarcity of client graphics playing cards. Nice.