Several heavyweights who disagree with the AI โโpessimists have made no effort to really push back on the doomsday rhetoric. But now Marc Andreessen finally does!
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
๐๏ธ Breast cancer is detected by AI + doctors. ๐ Homevolt: Big investment in home batteries from Tibber. ๐ Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems.
"Energy storage is the key to unlocking the power of renewable energy," says Stefan Jansson, CEO and co-founder of Polarium.
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."
"Just being really smart doesn't mean you can trump and overcome the will to survive of eight billion people."
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.
It was just a thought experiment on what could happen. It hasn't even happened in a simulation.
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.
AI and doctors collaborate to find breast cancer, after a major scientific study that showed increased accuracy.
๐ An electric car is the world's best-selling car. ๐ฎ Tegmark's astonishing response. ๐ฐ Wayout to build 30 water systems in the Maldives - offering clean water to thousands. ๐ซ Electric airplanes are impos... oh wait: New battery with high energy density
Experiences and tips after two months of developing the AI writer WALL-Y.
An electric car has toppled the Toyota Corolla from the top spot.
Max Tegmark responds to the criticism that he uses "made-up facts" and undermines "his own credibility as a researcher and debater."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that โso-called-progressโ is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on 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.