Publish at December 04 2024 Updated December 04 2024
Since 2022, the general public has had privileged access to a powerful technology: generative artificial intelligence. Now, with a single query, AI can compose a text, image or video that responds most precisely to the request. But to get this far has required advances in machine learning. And cats are part of the reason.
What do felines have to do with artificial intelligence? Internet. Indeed, when the network enabled the development of platforms where it was easy to publish multimedia content, many cat owners shared images of their little beasts. A major mass of information that gave algorithms the opportunity to perfectly learn feline anatomy and recognize them in 98% of cases on snapshots. This discovery led researchers to understand that AI learning was possible, and today has led to prototypes of autonomous cars capable of distinguishing everything in a few thousandths of a second.
Except that, like so many things Silicon Valley touches, they forgot the reality of such democratization: energy needs. Even the creator of ChatGPT admitted that this was problematic, that if there were to be as many queries to AI as there are to an engine like Google, there wouldn't be enough energy on the planet to answer them. A reality that is leading some to rethink technology, whether it's the idea of building nuclear generators, as Microsoft has done, or regulations, as others have done.
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