💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: FINALLY some pushback against AI doomerism
Several heavyweights who disagree with the AI pessimists have made no effort to really push back on the doomsday rhetoric. But now Marc Andreessen finally does!
🦾 Marc Andreessen in strong comeback against AI doomers (summarized)
Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder in the first comprehensive pushback against the AI doomerism. Marc Andreessen is among six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame
💡 Warp News #190
🎗️ Breast cancer is detected by AI + doctors. 🔋 Homevolt: Big investment in home batteries from Tibber. 📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems.
🔋 Homevolt: New battery for the home by Tibber and Polarium
"Energy storage is the key to unlocking the power of renewable energy," says Stefan Jansson, CEO and co-founder of Polarium.
📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems
We talk about some of the 450 advice in his new book, but also about his new project: Protopia - the hundred-year desirable future. And Kevin Kelly give advice for how Warp News should grow faster: "Wrap it around people and their dreams."
🤖 Kevin Kelly: Don't regulate AI based on fear of human extinction
"Just being really smart doesn't mean you can trump and overcome the will to survive of eight billion people."
🦾 AI discovers superbug-killing antibiotics
AI has been used to discover a new antibiotic, named abaucin, that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a deadly superbug. If the progress of AI were to be halted or slowed down, we risk hindering such life-saving discoveries.
🤖 No, an AI drone has not refused to obey orders and killed a human
It was just a thought experiment on what could happen. It hasn't even happened in a simulation.
📽️ Walt Disney is my role model - he should be Bob Iger's too
Walt Disney broke new ground throughout his life. Disney is today a huge entertainment company, but hasn't broken new ground in a long time.
🎗️ Breast cancer detected by AI + doctors - new type of mammogram review
AI and doctors collaborate to find breast cancer, after a major scientific study that showed increased accuracy.
💡 Warp News #189
🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car. 😮 Tegmark's astonishing response. 🚰 Wayout to build 30 water systems in the Maldives - offering clean water to thousands. 🛫 Electric airplanes are impos... oh wait: New battery with high energy density
🤖 The development of AI writer WALL-Y - part 1
Experiences and tips after two months of developing the AI writer WALL-Y.
🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car
An electric car has toppled the Toyota Corolla from the top spot.
😮 Tegmark's astonishing response
Max Tegmark responds to the criticism that he uses "made-up facts" and undermines "his own credibility as a researcher and debater."
🚰 Wayout to build 30 water systems in the Maldives - offering clean water to thousands
Hotels & Resorts Construction has committed to installing and operating 30 Wayout systems in the Maldives, offering clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands of islanders.
📚 Top Reads
We're honored to present these top reads from world-class writers, who contribute to Warp News because they believe in our mission of spreading fact-based optimism all over the world.
📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems
We talk about some of the 450 advice in his new book, but also about his new project: Protopia - the hundred-year desirable future. And Kevin Kelly give advice for how Warp News should grow faster: "Wrap it around people and their dreams."
💡 A new mindset for humanity can impact billions of people now and in the future
If we succeed in giving humanity more optimism about the future, it will not only affect those living now but also all generations and billions of people who will live in the future.
💰 Wall Street legend: “Pessimists sound smart – optimists make money”
Jim O'Shaughnessy is a legendary investor on Wall Street. He shares what he thinks is the biggest opportunity for the future and explains how the world is going through a great reshuffle.
🔋 Northvolt and the benefit of understanding the future
The story of Peter Carlsson and Northvolt teaches us two lessons: You need to understand the future to see all the possibilities, and you must be a fact-based optimist to grab them.
💡 David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that “so-called-progress” is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.
💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.
