data Archives - TECHNOBABBLE https://technobabble.com.au/tag/data/ Fri, 03 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 The Transformation of a Scrappy Cryptominer into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom https://technobabble.com.au/2024/05/03/the-transformation-of-a-scrappy-cryptominer-into-the-multibillion-dollar-backbone-of-the-ai-boom/ Fri, 03 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://technobabble.com.au/blog/2024/05/03/the-transformation-of-a-scrappy-cryptominer-into-the-multibillion-dollar-backbone-of-the-ai-boom/ Brian Venturo and a couple of fellow hedge fund buddies bought their first GPUs as part of an elaborate joke. It was late 2016, and for the fun of playing with something volatile that could be either trash or treasure, they had been staking their pool and fantasy football games with bitcoin instead of cash....

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]]> How an AI Startup Envisions Conversations with Houses, Cars, and Factories https://technobabble.com.au/2024/04/05/how-an-ai-startup-envisions-conversations-with-houses-cars-and-factories/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://technobabble.com.au/blog/2024/04/05/how-an-ai-startup-envisions-conversations-with-houses-cars-and-factories/ We’ve all been astonished at how chatbots seem to understand the world. But what if they were truly connect to the real world? What if the dataset behind the chat interface was physical reality itself, captured in real time by interpreting the input of billions of sensors sprinkled around the globe? That’s the idea behind...

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]]> The NSA cautions about potential AI advantage for US adversaries through private data mining. https://technobabble.com.au/2024/03/21/the-nsa-cautions-about-potential-ai-advantage-for-us-adversaries-through-private-data-mining/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://technobabble.com.au/blog/2024/03/21/the-nsa-cautions-about-potential-ai-advantage-for-us-adversaries-through-private-data-mining/ Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an AI revolution was brewing inside the US tech industry. The NSA, sometimes jokingly said to stand for No Such Agency, has long hired top math and computer science talent. Its technical leaders have been early...

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