Stay ConnectedAI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. Power Play is a six-part investigation from Quartz into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics at the core of AI development.
Hosted by Marco Pimentel. Reported by Jackie Snow, Catherine Baab, and Joseph Zeballos-Roig. All six episodes are out now.
The global economy needs true randomness to encrypt messages and make sure elections are honest. But not all randomness is random enough, and humans and computers alike are really bad at generating it. So we turn to natural sources like seismic waves, radioactive decay, and lava lamps (yes, lava lamps) to generate it for us.
Photo by Eric Helgas; styling by Alex Citrin-Safadi
Transcript: https://qz.com/2062955
Let's go down the rabbit hole, together. Coming Oct. 12, 2021.
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