2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.

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Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal

Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch

OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal

The AI-energy apocalypse might be a little overblown

OpenAI’s Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

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