🤖 Development of AI bot WALL-Y – part 2
Experiences and tips after Warp News AI writer now has turned newscaster.
💡 Warp News #202
💀 The murder rate has dropped 17%. 👽 Not alone anymore? 📶 Record number of internet users. 🚘 Autonomous vehicles cause fewer injuries and fatal crashes
💀 Globally the murder rate has dropped 17% in the past 20 years
Europe has seen a sharp decline in the murder rate, and the situation in Asia, Africa and the Americas has also improved.
🦾 A productive centaur
New research indicates a significant increase in productivity and quality for those who used ChatGPT compared to those who didn't.
👩🏿⚕️ Ghana’s immunization rates soar in drone-served districts
Drones significantly reduce vaccine supply time to remote clinics. Drone deliveries take only 55 minutes to reach the remotest clinics, which would take over 5 hours by road.
👽 Not alone anymore? New evidence points to life on distant planet
On a planet named K2-18b, over 120 light years from Earth, a telescope has possibly detected a molecule known as DMS. Why is that important? Because on Earth, DMS is only produced by life.
📶 Record number of internet users, two-thirds are now online
5.4 billion people are now online. More than ever before. Growth in internet connectivity is strongest in low-income countries.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles cause fewer injuries and fatal crashes
Self-driving cars decrease the risk of injury-causing and fatal accidents compared to human drive vehicles.
🆙 Longtermist Will MacAskill on Warp Levels: "Very good!"
MacAskill is a philosopher at Oxford University and a leading advocate for longtermism, where the idea is that we should consider thousands of future generations in the decisions we make now. What does he think about leveling up humanity?
💡 Warp News #201
🥛 Milk production without cows. 🐳 AI could help us talk to animals. 📱 Internet use may lower dementia risk for older people. 🏙️ Tech leaders building a new city near Silicon Valley.
📱 Internet use may lower dementia risk for older people
Regular older internet users had a 1.54 percent risk of developing dementia. In contrast, non-users faced a 10.45 percent risk.
🆙 Warp Levels - an idea to level up humanity
Humanity is doing the high jump without a bar. We have no goal. With Warp Levels, we determine what the next level for humanity should contain, so we can level up and make progress faster.
🥛 Solar Foods to kickstart milk production without cows
The HYDROCOW project targets producing sustainable milk protein using CO2 and electricity and no cows are required.
🐳 AI could help us talk to animals
Scientists use artificial intelligence to study animal communication. AI can help identify the meaning and context of animal sounds. Project CETI uses AI and underwater technology to study sperm whale communication.
🏙️ Tech leaders building a new city near Silicon Valley
Eastern Solano County, close to Silicon Valley, identified for the ambitious project. Support from tech moguls like Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman. See illustrations of the city.
📚 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.
🆙 Warp Levels - an idea to level up humanity
Humanity is doing the high jump without a bar. We have no goal. With Warp Levels, we determine what the next level for humanity should contain, so we can level up and make progress faster.
📚 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.
