Daily Tech News 12 March 2024

• Elon Musk has announced that his AI company - xAI - will be releasing its AI - Grok - as open source. (Notebook Check)
  
  Exactly how open that is remains to be seen, but there is nothing at all open about OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) so the bar is pretty low.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Midjourney has banned all Stability AI staff from its service over alleged attempts at data theft. (The Verge)
  
  
  Stability AI is the home of the open-source Stable Diffusion image generation model. Its CEO has stated "It wasn't us and if it was it was an accident."
  
  

• The US must move "decisively" to avert an "extinction-level" "threat" from "AI", according to a government funded "report". (Time)

  "Current frontier AI development poses urgent and growing risks to national security," the report, which TIME obtained ahead of its publication, says. "The rise of advanced AI and AGI [artificial general intelligence> has the potential to destabilize global security in ways reminiscent of the introduction of nuclear weapons." AGI is a hypothetical technology that could perform most tasks at or above the level of a human. Such systems do not currently exist, but the leading AI labs are working toward them and many expect AGI to arrive within the next five years or less.

  The only problem with this statement is that none of it is remotely real. None of the leading AI labs are working toward AGI. They are working on redefining AGI so that they can claim to have achieved it.
  
  
  
• Lenovo may be releasing its Legion Y700 tablet to the global market next month. (Notebook Check)
  
  In fact, something I didn't know is that it's already sold in Japan by NEC as the Lavie Tab 9.
  
  Anyway: I'll buy two. There is literally no competition right now.
  
  
  
• We haven't checked in on QNAP in a while and oh they're on fire. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Still.
  
  
  
• How do AMD's integrated graphics stack up against the best graphics cards made with Chinese chips? If you guessed AMD's built-in graphics are twice as fast, well, yes. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Some of that will be software limitations, that the Chinese makers will resolve over time. But right now a high-end China-only card gets stomped by even the cheapest previous-generation card from AMD.
  
  
  
• Europe has found Europe guilty of breaching Europe's data protection laws. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Well, there's a thing.

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