AI Edition - It's AI Time - 144 [06-09-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 144

Google AI Overviews rollout hits news publisher search visibility

Google is now providing AI-written summaries for some news articles in its search results in the US and UK. Research indicates these AI Overviews are impacting publisher visibility, pushing original articles down the search rankings. This shift could necessitate significant changes in SEO strategies for maintaining traffic.

The AI Arms Race Isn't Inevitable

Leading AI labs are increasingly framing AI development as a geopolitical zero-sum game essential for national security, urging Western governments to back rapid AI advancements to avoid adversaries, like China, gaining a decisive technological edge. This narrative champions aggressive measures to secure AI dominance, risking escalation of geopolitical tensions and potentially compromising ethical and safety considerations.

Is AI eating all the energy?

AI's energy consumption is positively correlated with power usage, heat, carbon, and water use, with both increasing demand and improving energy efficiency influencing the overall energy footprint of AI. AI processing is generally becoming more power-hungry, and efficiency gains in hardware are helping to mitigate this trend. Still, AI represents a growing yet still minor segment of data center power usage, with training operations consuming significantly more energy than inference, though widespread use dilutes this impact.

Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) released a draft definition for "open source AI" to address the misuse of the term and set clear criteria, including usage rights, study, modification, and sharing freedoms. This move aims to help developers and researchers evaluate AI systems more transparently. A stable version of the definition that will potentially influence future AI model releases and regulation is expected in October. 

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