Tag: Microsoft
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Microsoft and Helion to bring fusion power to the grid
World’s first fusion energy purchase agreement aims to revolutionize clean energy Helion Energy and Microsoft have announced a groundbreaking fusion energy purchase agreement, marking a significant step towards the commercial viability of fusion power. The first-of-its-kind fusion power plant, expected to be operational by 2028, aims to deliver at least 50 MW of electricity and…
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Generative AI: 5 essential reads about the new era of creativity, job anxiety, misinformation, bias and plagiarism
Eric Smalley, The Conversation The light and dark sides of AI have been in the public spotlight for many years. Think facial recognition, algorithms making loan and sentencing recommendations, and medical image analysis. But the impressive – and sometimes scary – capabilities of ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and other conversational and image-conjuring artificial intelligence programs feel…
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Microsoft increases investment in OpenAI’s supercomputing research
OpenAI and Microsoft have announced the extension of their partnership through a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft. This follows previous investments in 2019 and 2021, and will allow the companies to continue their independent research and develop AI that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful. OpenAI remains a capped-profit company, governed by the OpenAI…