Microsoft is betting big on AI and spending billions to create tools like its flagship Copilot assistant. But now, some of the people working on the tools are wondering if it's worth the hype.
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Artificial intelligence has proved a costly endeavor—well, yes, in terms of money, but AI requires massive amounts of energy, and water consumption to operate at scale.

Meta is reportedly building an advanced AI model equating to the efficiency of OpenAI’s language model, GPT-4.

Google’s DeepMind says it has cracked a problem that has vexed those trying to verify whether images are real or created by AI. Researchers proclaimed their new watermarking SynthID format can be used to pinpoint AI-generated deepfakes without distorting the image’s original quality. The catch is that the program…