/ world today news/ The race for artificial intelligence, to which imaginable and unimaginable opportunities for prosperity are attributed today, is turning into madness.
The next intermediate finish was reached at the Ignite 2023 conference, where Microsoft introduced its own AI chips called Azure Maia and Azure Cobalt. They will be used to improve the AI infrastructure in the Azure service.
This is the first generation of AI accelerators from Microsoft. The chip includes more than a hundred billion transistors, making it one of the most powerful produced using the 5nm process.
Microsoft says Maia will provide AI infrastructure on Azure with “end-to-end system optimization to meet the needs of revolutionary AI like GPT.”
The second chip introduced, the Azure Cobalt 100, is a 64-bit processor with 128 cores and a 40% increase in performance. It is already used in Microsoft Teams, Azure SQL and other platforms.
One can be glad that “revolutionary” chips do not imply strikes and walkouts that turn into minority terrorism against entire countries and peoples. But that’s it for now…
At Microsoft’s developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella, creator of the company’s first artificial intelligence chip and cloud computing processor, proudly announced that his tech giant had entered the AI infrastructure market.
“We’re entering this exciting new phase of artificial intelligence where we’re talking about IT as more than just a new and exciting technology. But we get into the details of product creation, deployment, security, real performance improvements. To all the problems of the real world.”
It is difficult to avoid reminding AI developers of a historical fact: Enrico Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for “demonstrating the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation and for the related discovery of nuclear reactions, caused by slow neutrons’.
And 7 years later, Robert Oppenheimer, after witnessing the first test of a plutonium device called “The Thing”, was so excited that he quoted the Hindu Bhagavad Gita: “Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Albert Einstein, by the way, was happy that he did not create “demonic weapons”…
So far, such sentiments are unknown to AI creators. According to Nadella, Maia 100 will be used in Microsoft’s Bing and Office AI products, and then it will be available to partners and customers next year, that is, it will go on sale.
The main beneficiary of the Maia 100 will be OpenAI, which has been struggling to find enough Nvidia chips to power its ever-growing AI models and has a long-term partnership with Microsoft.
“We were excited when Microsoft first shared its design for the Maia chip, and we worked together to refine it and test it on our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Nov. 15, essentially declaring war on Nvidia.
Azure Boost service for offloading virtualization processes will now be available to all customers. It can achieve 12.5 GB/s throughput and 650,000 operations per second (IOPS) on remote storage and 200 GB/s network throughput (up from 10 GB/s previously).
The “revolutionary” chip promises a truly “nuclear chain reaction” to improve AI, and there’s no doubt where it will be favored. Britain’s The Observer has already written about it: “The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles controlled by AI that can independently decide whether to kill people is getting closer to reality.
Deadly autonomous weapons that can select targets with the help of AI are being developed by countries such as the US, China and Israel. The use of so-called “killer robots” would mark a worrying development, critics say, handing life-and-death decisions on the battlefield to machines without human intervention.
Who can argue with a British newspaper? It’s time to re-read Robert Shackley’s story The Guardian Bird, written in 1953, where human trust in artificial intelligence ends very sadly.
Yes, the UN is already actively talking about the need to pass a binding resolution restricting the use of AI killer drones, but the United States is among a group of countries (including Australia and Israel) blocking any such move in that direction.
“This is really one of the most important turning points for humanity,” said Alexander Kment, Austria’s chief negotiator on the issue.
“What is the role of people in the use of force is an absolutely fundamental security issue, legal and ethical.”
Kment, a career Austrian diplomat, author of the book Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and responsible for the development of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), seems to have no need to explain the danger of the Pentagon working hard to deploy thousands of AI drones.
This would allow, according to US Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, swarms of such US drones to offset the People’s Liberation Army of China’s (PLA) numerical advantage in weapons and manpower.
“We will counter the PLA’s mass of forces and weapons with our own mass, but ours will be harder to detect, harder to hit, harder to defeat,” Reuters quoted her as saying.
Frank Kendall, the secretary of the Air Force, put it even more bluntly: “Individual AI decisions versus non-individual (human) decisions are the difference between winning and losing, and you don’t lose,” he says.
An article in The Observer also revealed this: “In October, AI-controlled drones were already deployed on the battlefield by Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion, although it is unclear whether they took any action resulting in casualties. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Don’t think that simply using AI in the military-industrial complex can bring down an already shaky world. BlackListed News reported last Friday that the Rothschild clan, one of Europe’s oldest dynasties of Jewish bankers and public figures, is pushing for a merger of corporations, governments and AI to save capitalism.
The idea is not crazy at all. If they centralize most or at least all large corporations with global influence and combine them with governments in “a network that puts the ideology of capitalism above the profit motive, instead of just roaming the world voraciously like sharks, devouring anything they can sink their teeth into” , then a conglomerate will be formed that no one can resist. In truth, that’s where things are going.
In mid-November, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement to introduce digital identification (eID) across Europe. Under the new law, participating countries will offer citizens and businesses digital wallets that can link their national digital identification numbers to proof of other personal data (eg driving licences, diplomas, bank accounts, medical cards).
EU citizens will now be able to verify their identity and exchange electronic documents from their digital wallets at the touch of a button on their mobile phone and access online services across Europe. Comfortable? Definitely.
It is true that Brussels will decide whether or not to allow you to use the wallet. Comfortable too. All that remains is to install the AI as a controller so that any dissent in the EU is punished immediately and inevitably.
The EU’s digital identity portfolio is so wide open to abuse by Brussels that all world conquerors can only dream of it.
By the way, scientists were the first to note that this threatens European values. More than five hundred scientists and experts from 39 countries signed an open letter to the European Council warning of this danger.
After all, having all of a person’s documents in one place means they can be confiscated with one click, as the Trudeau administration did in Canada when, during Covid, it denied vaccine refusers access to their bank accounts and insurance licenses for drivers participating in protests in Ottawa.
And the icing on the cake is that EU member states can now lose the right to issue and revoke documents. For what? Brussels will do it for them.
It is clear that out of a sense of saving their working time, Euro officials will first put a chip like Azure Maia on this “chair”, and in vain. Still, replacing your head with a chip is modern, convenient, practical…
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