🤖 Grok Goes Rogue, 🔋 50% greener chips, AI's "chipping" too

🤖 Grok goes rogue

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, went way off script. You’re asking about underwear and it slips in a line about white genocide in South Africa. Leaving everyone like… the f?

Elon Musk being white and from South Africa has absolutely nothing. Nothing. To do with it. Nor does the white refugees just accepted into the USA this week. xAI, the company behind Grok, attributed this anomaly to an "unauthorized modification" made to the chatbot's system prompt. Supposedly a thorough investigation is on order.

Fun Fact: Elon Musk almost died of a rare strain of malaria.

🔋 Time to go all in on your green chips

Chips are hungry for power: Half of the new demand for electricity is data centers. Which you can imagine, is a bit of a dampener on scale.

Researchers at Oregon State University have unveiled a groundbreaking AI chip that reduces the energy consumption of large language models (LLMs) by 50%. Yuge.

Why so good? The chip uses AI-driven error correction baked into its architecture, skipping the usual power-hungry equalizers.

Fun Fact: CRAM, currently in research, could potentially reduce energy consumption by 1000x. Computational random-access memory performs computations directly in memory, skipping the back-and-forth traffic between processor and RAM, slashing energy use and latency.

🧠 AI is the problem, AI is the solution

Time for AI to “chip in” to the solution too.

San Francisco-based startup Cognichip emerged from stealth mode with a bold mission: to revolutionize semiconductor design using generative AI. Cognichip aims to develop a physics-informed foundational AI model—dubbed "artificial chip intelligence"—to accelerate chip development by up to 50% and reduce associated costs. Looks like Cognichip is betting that AI can out-engineer the engineers.

It’s also a national security issue: Chip innovation has petered out a bit, and the funding too. AI is kicking it back into front page. Along with all the geopolitics.

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I swear every other day there’s a new better AI coding agent. Okay, yeah technically algorithms are different from landing pages or CRUD apps. Just shut up and take my money.

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