Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undoubtedly progressed to unprecedented levels, with openAI’s Sora model being the latest example. Sora is a diffusion model that can create AI-generated videos up to a minute long with a simple text prompt. The examples shown on their landing page are quite remarkable, showing the potential of this technology. However, with great power comes great responsibility, as ethical and legal implications abound. The US Federal Trade Commission has proposed a rule to protect individuals from AI-based impersonation and fraud, a step in the right direction.
Meanwhile, in the PC hardware space, NVIDIA has unveiled Eos, their AI supercomputer powered by 4,608 H100 GPUs, making it one of the fastest supercomputers for AI tasks. The cost of such technology is staggering, with the GPUs alone totaling 140 to 190 million dollars. On the other hand, there is some good news for consumers, as the RTX 4070 super has seen a $10 price drop, signaling a potential trend of video cards becoming more affordable over time.
Overall, the advancements in AI technology and PC hardware point to an exciting yet uncertain future. It’s a world where AI-generated videos could become the norm, and where new Intel CPUs may require innovative cooling solutions. As we navigate this rapidly evolving landscape, it’s essential to consider the implications and be cautious about the potential consequences of these advancements.
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[Music] Welcome back to Paul’s Tech news! it appears that we have reached an inflection point in the inexorable March of Technology my friends and it is one I’ve been waiting on for a while: we’ve got AI chat bots that feed us AI-derived text, and we have AI still photo generation to
Produce titillating imagery for us to feast our eyes upon, but what about the next step in AI evolution? No, not the singularity, when AI becomes self aware and merges itself into an omniscient digital hybrid being capable of completely taking over world governments and the
Human race in general, that already happened in 2023, media coverage was pretty light on it – I’m talking about AI-generated video, and for more on this we go live to our new field reporter, a Corgi on a beach in Maui. I’m just kidding, that Corgi video was AI-generated with a simple
Prompt using OpenAI’s new Sora model, and who knows – maybe my whole video is AI-generated too. What can you trust anymore? Probably not your eyes, but for now I say we just roll with it and see how this plays out. Oh yeah, and there was other PC hardware news this week
Too about CPUs and GPUs that I’ll also talk about. Computer: Generate Paul’s Hardware Tech News Show for February 18th, 2024. Joe: yeah no problem Paul. I think it’s working excellent today’s video is brought to you by the Paul’s Hardware store on Paulshardware.net
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Videos up to a minute long with a simple text prompt and the examples shown on their landing page are just absolutely stunning it can also be used to extend existing videos and while it’s not perfect as readily admitted by openAI – there are a handful of videos showing it spawning infinite
Wolf puppies or Conjuring up cursed plastic chairs at an archaeology site – the leap from previous models that could maybe animate a still image for a few seconds to this is quite remarkable. Sora is not available to the public yet nor will it be available soon according to an openAI spokesperson
But they are gathering early feedback and let’s call it like it is flexing pretty boldly with the capabilities of their new model ethical and legal implications abound of course as governmental bodies and Regulators attempt to keep Pace with AI’s rapid advancements and in the US at least
The FTC has finally proposed a rule to protect individuals from AI-based impersonation and fraud; they have already finalized a rule about impersonating the Government and Businesses, so it’s nice that they’re considering some protections for us actual people too. Once AI
Video is perfected though, what will be next? Well that’s “AGI”, or artificial general intelligence, and true AGI models would be able to recreate human ingenuity and come up with brand new solutions to problems, versus simply mimicking or recreating existing art or writing based on
The data they’re trained on. And according to the most recent news from Amazon’s AGI team, their work is also progressing, and their model has shown “Emergent Abilities” – as in, exhibiting language abilities that it was not trained on. And whether that makes you nervous
Or excited – you’re probably right. Let’s steer gently back towards PC hardware, with NVIDIA’s video posted Thursday, showing off Eos, their AI supercomputer powered by 4,608 H100 GPUs – which makes it the 9th fastest supercomputer in terms of raw floating point power,
But probably the fastest or one of the fastest for AI specific tasks. Along with the H100s, there are 1,152 Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C 56 core processors, and nodes are connected with Nvidia’s Mellanox Quantum-2 InfiniBand technology that can hit transfer speeds up to 400 Gb/s,
Which is very important for AI training purposes. No word on how much it will cost to rent the Eos supercomputer out so you can make your own 16k resolution Corgi-on-a-beach videos with OpenAI’s Sora model, but it will presumably be on the pricey side – the overall cost of Eos, based
Solely on the 4,608 H100 GPUs, which typically sell for $30-$40,000 each, would be 140 to 190 million dollars, and that’s not including the Xeon platinums, the building, and the electrical and cooling bills. What’s even crazier is that this seems to be a cut-down version
Of Eos – NVIDIA says there will be multiple Eos Supercomputers, and the specs they first revealed back in November 2023 listed 10,752 H100 GPUs, more than double what the supercomputer revealed Thursday has installed. But I suppose the price is probably worth it if you can just generate videos
Now without having to pay actors, directors, script writers, videographers and all those other inconvenient expenses that come along with content creation. speaking of expensive things: Nvidia GPUs. sure they cost a lot but what if the cost was $10 less? that’s the newsworthy bit of
Info written up by the folks at videocardz.com – a $10 price drop on the RTX 4070 super, now down to $590 for Zotac twin Edge model and while it’s a small savings it is hopefully indicative of a continuing Trend in the PC Hardware space of video cards becoming more affordable over time
Rather than less so and I will say that it is nice that this has happened within about a month or so of the original launch date it’s nice that the prices on Amazon and newegg are still the same
A couple days after this article went up and that the cards are still in stock and also notable that amongst the 40 super cards that were announced the 4070 super was the most highly regarded in terms of performance per dollar and the most affordable, relatively speaking. amd’s radon
Cards have also seen continuing price drops with the 7900 XT holding steady at $700 and the 7800 XT now available for less than $500 with multiple cards at $490 (after promo code) small steps yes but they are steps in the right direction. Intel apparently has one more 14th gen CPU to launch and
As usual it is the KS Flagship model, a clock speed Juiced variant of the 14900K presumably built on binned silicon with an S added for good measure. these Halo tier CPUs aren’t typically recommended for most Builders since they fetch a price premium and often need to dramatically
Ramp up power draw to hit Peak frequencies, and the 14900K seems like it will continue that Trend with an impressive 6.2 GHz Peak Turbo clock and a much less impressive 410 W power draw, at least according to results from The OCCT Benchmark database that were discovered and
Published by benchleaks. even premium 360mm and 420mm all-in-one coolers struggle to keep up with the 14900K non-super so you might want to consider a water chiller or moving your gaming setup to the Frozen tundra of the great white North if you’re at all interested in upgrading to this CPU. no
Word on pricing either but if rumors are true it should be available for sale in mid-march. we save Tech briefs for the end of the show because let’s face it sometimes it’s embarrassing to have them right out there on display for everyone. but if you’re feeling self-conscious never fear because
These stories are embarrassing for pretty much everyone involved. Nvidia has been riding high on their CUDA platform for a long time but at last AMD Radeon users can get in on the action too thanks to “ZLUDA” which is available in open- Source format as of Monday and functions
As a drop in Cuda implementation allowing you to run unmodified Cuda apps on Radeon gpus there’s a bit of backstory since ZLUDA started as an Intel project built on the Intel 1 API level zero — LZ,
ZL, ZLUDA — but the Intel Dev for the project was contracted by AMD to continue it in 2022 after leaving Intel and adapt it for Radeon Hardware. AMD has decided not to release the software themselves but instead gave the dev a window to release it as open source which
Was likely done to skirt legal repercussions, but the upshot is that it works on Windows and Linux, benchmarks show good performance (even better than amd’s native ROCm solution for stuff like blender which is interesting), so if you have a radeon GPU and you want to do Cuda stuff with it head on over
To GitHub and try out ZLUDA. amd’s ryzen 8000 apus are already out, but according to Twitter leaker harukaze5719 they will have new 35 watt TDP versions available soon too that’s 30 watts less than the likes of the 65 watt 8700g with power saved primarily thanks to reduced clock speeds
Which of course reduces performance. this info was revealed in the notes for some recent Asus bios updates and while there is likely a small subset of potential ryzen 8000G Apu buyers who would be interested in lower TDP versions you should also keep in mind that these will probably be OEM only
So you’d need to buy a pre-built to get your hands on one. Microsoft is apparently embarrassed enough about people running Windows on older Hardware that they’re making requirements for the dubiously named windows 24H2 even more stringent than before and these won’t be annoying requirements that can
Be worked around it’s a show stopping error based on the hardware you’re using. “popcnt” isn’t just shorthand for what percentage of Australia’s population is composed of douchebags, it’s actually short for the population count instruction, and if your CPU isn’t compatible with
Specific sse4 instruction sets then windows 24H2 will simply refuse to install. that means no new windows for mid-2000s Intel Core 2 Duo based PCs, as well as earlier Athlon 64 systems — probably isn’t that big of a deal to be honest. on the flip side though the update is also promising
Some functionally useful features like automatic super resolution, with AI enhancement of course, which probably won’t be the only AI boosted thing that windows integrates but using upscaling to improve performance on older Hardware (as long as it’s not pre-to-mid 2000s CPUs of course) and
Enhance the PC gaming experience in general makes me cautiously optimistic about the potential for automatic super resolution. amd’s biggest embarrassment in 2023 was probably the roll out of anti-lag plus, the driver level latency reduction tool that triggered anti-cheat bans
For quite a few Gamers after its debut back in September. but according to amd’s Frank Azor they will be bringing it back “Soon” (asterisk) but hopefully they won’t be rushing it out this time. AMD did seem to take their time with Wednesday’s disclosure of fixes for Zen based
CPU vulnerabilities which includes four new ones as well as well as cumulative updates for the dramatically named “Zenbleed” vulnerabilities from 2023. the four newly discovered vulnerabilities require an agesa micro code update to patch and for the bulk of consumer am4 CPUs that is now
Version 1.2.0C so it is good that there are fixes out now but it is also up to your motherboard’s manufacturer to issue a bios update that includes the new Agesa code and support for some aging
300 400 and even 500 series am4 boards is lagging behind so you should update your bios if you can, and if you can’t then you should compose a strongly worded letter to your motherboard manufacture telling them to get on the ball issue some newly updated bioses. intel was
Embarrassed this week too by the spec group who called out team blue and bulk canceled 2600 sets of Benchmark results achieved using their software suite, primarily for Intel Sapphire Rapids processors tested in 2022. Intel apparently optimized their compiler specifically for the spec
CPU 2017 Benchmark that’s used to test high-end servers data centers and workstations resulting in a 9% Improvement that was not borne out in real world testing. it’s not the first time this has happened, but it is disappointing that Intel would feel the need to take such an action to attempt to
Boost the appeal of their server Hardware. when asked for comments AMD described the situation as an “EPYC fail” because AMD processors are called Epyc… you don’t have to use that if you don’t want to. finally, we showed you pink strawberry scented thermal paste last week and
Apparently it looked so delicious that feasting on thermal paste and thermal pads is becoming a thing, or at least it is for a redditor who goes by thejus Parol who posted over on the PC Master race subreddit about fire ants Milling about in their PC case going into and out of their GTX
1060 video card disassembly revealed that the little buggers were actually chowing down on the card’s memory thermal pads and and the gpu’s thermal paste and they even returned for a second helping after parol did a full alcohol cleaning and reassembly. fire ants are already fearsome
Enough what with their ability to breathe fire and all so I think we should especially avoid scented paste or anything that makes our PC Hardware more delicious looking. thank goodness they’re not going for the ssds I don’t even know how You’d deal with that many bugs in your software.
That was a bad joke though I like I like this actual joke on Reddit better “what is this, a computer for ants?” Reddit always comes up with better jokes than I do. but there you have it guys Tech news for the week and if you liked it click that like button leave me
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