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🙈 Climate skeptics slow down progress
Here are two arguments for why we should transition to sustainability, that have nothing to do with climate change.
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💉 New vaccine technology can provide better cancer treatment and increased survival rate. 🌕 The four astronauts who will go around the Moon. 🧠 New gel offers hope for brain tissue regeneration. And - an AI pause is a bad idea.
😰 The Pattern of Technology Panic
Technology panics also follow Gartner's hype curve, and in the worst case, they can initiate ill-considered bans and restrictions, writes Waldemar Ingdahl.
🤖 Max Tegmark shows why Max Tegmark is wrong about AI
Professor Max Tegmark almost predicted the last years of AI development. But he got one thing wrong, which undermines his argument about the dangers of AI.
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🐶 More dog years for your best friend. 🏆 Your idea could be the next XPRIZE.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: Moore's law & why is China losing the AI war?
Why is the democratic beating China in the AI war? Did Gordon Moore predict, or create, the future?
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🧑🦯 Be My Eyes introduces an AI app to help the visually impaired
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: Optimism in high school, AI, AI, AI & climate optimism
Optimism at Klara High School, Gates on the AI wave, the right kind of climate optimism, negative news media, and much more.
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📉 Extreme poverty eradicated by 2050, according to a new study. 💊 New obesity breakthrough drugs. 🧒 Children's lung health has improved and urban air has become cleaner.