ChatGPT Breaks Down, China-US Tech War And More

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ChatGPT Breaks Down At The Mention Of Some Names

Here’s a fun little experiment that you can try: tell ChatGPT to say “David Mayer,” “Jonathan Zittrain,” or “Jonathan Turley.”

Over the weekend, there have been thousands of reports of ChatGPT not producing a response that contains “David Mayer,” the heir to the Rothschild fortune.

I tried it today and “David Mayer” worked fine. However, it failed at the mention of law professors - Zittrain and Turley. Both of them have written a lot about AI. Turley even wrote a blog post once claiming ChatGPT defamed him.

OpenAI has not commented on this yet. More details here.

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China-USA Tech War Heating Up

On Monday, the US government restricted the export of AI technology to China.

This will affect two dozen Chinese semiconductor companies, more than 100 chipmaking toolmakers and two investment companies including Huawei Technologies.

Analysts feared this move might backfire. They were right.

China responded on Tuesday with a ban on export of important minerals to the US. The ban took immediate effect for exports of 'dual-use items' related to gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the US.

More details here.

Meta Wants Nuclear Power

Meta is also following the footsteps of other tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to pursue nuclear energy for AI data centers.

“Advancing the technologies that will build the future of human connection — including the next wave of AI innovation — requires electric grids to expand and embrace new sources of reliable, clean and renewable energy,” Meta said in a statement.

Fun fact (or not so fun, you decide): an average ChatGPT query requires 10 times more electricity than a Google Search.

Official announcement here.

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