IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer, ChatGPT Energy Use Overestimated, and Complex Brains Evolved Independently | Discover Daily by Perplexity | Podwise
This Discover Daily podcast episode covers three tech and science news stories. First, it reports on the IRS's acquisition of an Nvidia SuperPod AI supercomputer for fraud detection and taxpayer analysis, costing an estimated $7 million or more. Second, it discusses a new study showing ChatGPT's energy consumption is significantly lower than previously thought, at approximately 0.3 watt-hours per query. Finally, the episode details a research study published in Science revealing that birds and mammals evolved complex brains independently, using different developmental and genetic pathways, despite achieving similar cognitive outcomes. This highlights the diverse paths to complex cognition in nature.
