MAROKO133 Breaking ai: ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers Wajib Baca

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers Edisi

OpenAI is planning to spend more than $1 trillion in AI infrastructure buildouts — an enormous commitment, especially considering its meager income.

Long term, it desperately needs revenue. For now, the vast majority of the money it’s actually bringing in is coming from paying ChatGPT subscribers — and while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boasted last week that 800 million people are using the AI chatbot on a weekly basis, only roughly five percent of them are paying for a subscription, according to reporting by the Financial Times.

And even ChatGPT revenue may already be plateauing, in what could turn into a major inflection point for an industry already struggling to justify its astronomical spending amid fears of an enormous AI bubble.

According to a Tuesday blog post by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute, first highlighted by Fortune, “European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May, suggesting the poster child for the AI boom may be struggling to recruit new subscribers to pay for it.”

That’s not to say ChatGPT is bringing in nothing. Europeans spend more on ChatGPT subscriptions than on Disney Plus, according to Deutsche Bank. At its yearly growth rate, it could overtake Spotify in mid-2027 and Netflix in early 2028 — if it can maintain that rate, that is, which hasn’t been looking good for months.

It’s yet another major warning sign, undermining OpenAI leadership’s repeated promises that more computing power from vast data centers will lead to more revenue.

Data analyzed by Deutsche Bank shows that the value of OpenAI subscriptions “has flatlined in the major European markets over the past four months” after surging in early 2023.

For now, OpenAI is going full steam ahead, signing huge contracts with partners including AI chipmakers Nvidia and AMD. The company has committed to delivering 26 gigawatts of computing capacity with their help, almost the amount of electricity required to power the entire state of New York during peak demand.

But with revenue from its flagship chatbot looking dicey, OpenAI could be forced to investigate alternative revenue streams. The Altman-led company is already exploring online advertising, monetizing its latest text-to-video generator app Sora, and a new personal device with the help of former Apple designer Jony Ive.

Whether those will amount to hundreds of billions of revenue to match its sky-high spending remains unclear at best. But that may not even be the goal. Altman has indicated that becoming profitable isn’t a priority for the firm.

With ChatGPT spending growth grinding to a halt in Europe, the company could soon be looking for ways to attract new users. Case in point, the company recently announced that it would allow “mature” ChatGPT apps — despite Altman boasting in August that ChatGPT didn’t host any “sexbots.”

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🔗 Sumber: futurism.com

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Gold extraction from cyanide: New tech boosts precious me

Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. 

The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold Cyanidation Technology,’ has completed a month-long, lab-scale pilot and is now ready for larger-scale field demonstrations. 

As mines increase production, there is a focus on the environmental effects of gold extraction.

Use of cyanide in mining

Gold extraction often uses cyanide, a toxic chemical that separates the metal from its ore. This process can create environmental and public health risks if cyanide is released. Since the 1970s, spills have resulted in fish kills and contamination of water and agricultural lands.

In 2000, a tailings dam ruptured at the Aural Gold Mine in Romania, releasing 3.5 million cubic feet of cyanide-contaminated waste into the Tisza and Danube Rivers. The contamination affected water supplies and aquatic life for up to 400 kilometres (around 250 miles).

Current industry practice involves destroying residual cyanide in waste tailings. CSIRO’s new technology is designed to further reduce toxic compounds. 

The researchers, Dr Paul Breuer and Dr Xianwen Dai, are seeking industry partners to advance the technology.

“This technology enables the recovery of cyanide and other toxic compounds, some base metals and valuable soluble gold that typically remains unrecovered in cyanidation tailings,” said Dr Dai. He noted that the process also reduces costs and risks associated with cyanide transport and storage.

Previous developments in gold processing

This is not CSIRO’s first development in this area. Dr Breuer’s team previously created a cyanide-free gold extraction process named ‘Going for Gold,’ which used the non-toxic chemical thiosulphate. The project won the 2014 Australian Mining Prospect Award.

After a trial at a demonstration plant in Western Australia, that technology was transferred in 2019 to the Australian company Clean Mining for commercial use. The ‘Going for Gold’ process was based on earlier work for Barrick Gold’s Goldstrike Mine, which operated a cyanide-free solution from 2014 to 2024.

Regarding the new cyanidation technology, the researchers are ready for the next phase. 

“The technology can deliver much greater economic and environmental benefits beyond what is possible with current cyanide recovery and recycling technologies,” concluded Dr Breuer. 

“With sufficient interest we will be able to progress to pilot and demonstration in the field, which will hopefully lead to improved gold yields, environmental outcomes and sustainability for the gold industry.”

Another development

Earlier, in another development, researchers at Flinders University in Australia found a greener and safer way to get gold from ore and discarded electronics. 

This innovative approach promises to cut down on the toxic waste associated with gold extraction and a new approach to recovering high-purity gold from various sources.

In their study, the gold extraction method uses a low-cost, harmless compound called trichloroisocyanuric acid, commonly used in water treatment. This reagent, when activated by saltwater, effectively dissolves gold.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com