Google weighing ‘Project Ellmann,’ uses Gemini AI to tell life stories

Google weighing ‘Project Ellmann,’ uses Gemini AI to tell life stories

“Project Ellmann” is an internal Google proposal to use artificial intelligence to help users get a “bird’s-eye view” of their life stories. The idea would to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a user’s photos, create a chatbot and “answer previously impossible questions” about a person’s life. The team also …

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Why a ‘thirsty’ generative AI boom poses a problem for Big Tech

Why a ‘thirsty’ generative AI boom poses a problem for Big Tech

A global rush for the next wave of generative artificial intelligence is increasing public scrutiny on Big Tech’s expanding water footprint. Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside, recently published a study investigating the resources needed to run buzzy generative AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Ren and his colleagues found that …

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