💡 Warp News #291
👽 Mars rover finds traces of life. 🧒 Child poverty declines worldwide. 🦾 AI shows faster development than experts predicted.
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My book about AI is finished!
Thank you so much for your feedback on the subtitle. Unfortunately, you voted for the wrong option and my favorite came last 😅 But you were right that it was too complicated. This one is the best:
The Fifth Acceleration: Why AI Is Not the End – but the Beginning of What We Can Become.
The message is that AI will not replace humans but unleash human potential and creativity like never before.
This book is written for you. A new era requires new leaders and pioneers, and I know that many of them are found in this community. In the book, I help you find your role in the AI era.
I hope to spread this book worldwide, so that many people can open their eyes to what can be done with AI. But first it will be released in Swedish on November 3.
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🦑 With AI we are learning to understand animal language
AI technology makes it possible to analyze large amounts of animal sounds and detect patterns that were previously impossible to identify.
🚗 Waymo's self-driving cars have 79% fewer accidents than human drivers
Waymo's vehicles drove only on regular streets, not highways, and all comparisons were made for similar driving conditions.
🦾 AI shows faster development than experts predicted
Researchers greatly underestimated AI progress in mathematics and language understanding. Those who were accurate in the short term did not share the same views on existential risks through 2100.
👽 Mars rover finds potential traces of ancient life
The discovery was made in younger sedimentary rocks than expected, suggesting Mars was habitable for a longer period.
🌌 AI improves gravitational wave measurements
The method can help astronomers detect hundreds more collisions between black holes and neutron stars per year.
🧒 Child poverty declines worldwide - 100 million fewer in 10 years
South Asia has more than halved its child poverty during the past decade.
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