In this article, I will tell you about the AI power of Twitter: Do you like thrifting, readers? Hello, I’m Emilia David, and I’ve made it a goal to shop secondhand as much as possible.
Shopping for second-hand items grew in popularity in the last few years. A new report from online consignment store ThredUp showed about 30% of Gen Z bought used items to afford high-end labels. It’s not just a generational quirk, either. Heck, I furnished my apartment mainly with second-hand furniture.
So while I make plans to go thrifting this weekend, let’s get started on today’s tech news.
- Elon Musk’s personal AI ambitions. Elon Musk was one of the more prominent names on an open letter calling for a pause in AI development. My teammate Asia Martin points out that Musk’s position on AI is contradicted by Twitter’s investment in generative AI.
- Detractors of the call to pause AI said there’s an element of self-interest in asking for a moratorium in developing new AI models. Twitter’s recent purchase of hardware normally used to develop generative AI products shows the extent of this ambition.
- It’s unclear what Twitter plans to use its new graphics processing units (GPUs) for, but the investment shows Twitter and Musk are accelerating their push into AI.
- Musk has been critical of AI in general, and openly hostile to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, which he helped found.
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source: businessinsider.com
