Is the digital dollar dead?

And a digital dollar looks less likely than ever before. The case for cash Opponents of a hypothetical US CBDC cast it as a solution in search of a problem. Dollars are already digital, after all. If you paid with a debit card recently, did you not pay with digital dollars? China’s move to pilot … Read more

Meta’s latest AI model is free for all

Under the hood Getting LLaMA 2 ready to launch required a lot of tweaking to make the model safer and less likely to spew toxic falsehoods than its predecessor, Al-Dahle says. Meta has plenty of past gaffes to learn from. Its language model for science, Galactica, was taken offline after only three days, and its … Read more

Transforming business begins with IT

Laurel: That’s a great point about the partnership with Infosys, and in general, how you actually bring the data and predictive analytics to your capabilities because you do have so much data coming in from fifty different brands, countless vendors, all those customers. How can this be maximized to gain those insights? Amit: Yeah, that’s … Read more

A new Turing test, and working with ChatGPT

—Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies. AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But how can we know if a machine … Read more