Sam Bankman-Fried made effective altruism a punchline, but the do-gooding philosophy is part of a powerful tech subculture full of opportunism, money, messiah complexes—and alleged abuse. (more…)

It’s probably fair to say IBM is known for big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power... (more…)

In my previous post Lesson 1, I talked briefly about how to setup software and hardware environment for this course and went through fine… (more…)

We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012 the amount of compute needed to train a neural net to the same performance on ImageNet classification has been decreasing by a factor of 2 every 16 months. Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less co... (more…)

It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true. (more…)