Hot Chips, Exploitation in AI and ’Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it’s Supercomputer!’

This week Smera explains to Jonah some of the intricacies of the global 'Chip War'. They explore claims of labour exploitation in the name of AI safety, and discuss how many whales you can fit inside a supercomputer.

Smera tells us how deepfakes are being used for good during Diwali and the team enjoy a brand new DJ GEF inspired remix of the intro music. 

 

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Episode sources

 

SOURCES 

 

CHIPS 

US orders immediate halt to some AI chip exports to China, Nvidia says - BBC News 

Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn tie-up to build ‘AI factories’ (ft.com) (from last week) 

US-China chip war: Beijing unhappy at latest wave of US restrictions - BBC News (from last week) 

Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips | Reuters 

Baidu order AI chips from Huawei 

 

EXPLOITATION 

Mhairi Aitken’s Turing Lecture 

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive | Time - Jan 23 

The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence (noemamag.com) - Oct 22 

https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/ 

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285572/prison-labor-finland-artificial-intelligence-data-tagging-vainu 

https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/the-data-production-dispositif 

https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02003-2/d41586-020-02003-2.pdf 

Radical AI 

Alphabet Union 

The trauma floor - Feb 2019 

 

SUPERCOMPUTER 

 

Bristol and Cambs to host supercomputers 

What is a supercomputer 

Cooling of Isambard 

Exec order 

 

Positive news 

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-how-the-notjustacadburyad-campaign-us-using-ai-to-bring-joy-to-local-c/398614