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🦏 Rhinos on the rise. 🌡️ Staying within 1.5 degrees is possible, due to record growth for renewables. 🦾 ChatGPT diagnoses as accurately as ER doctors. 🔌 Record global access to electricity.
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🤖 My AI book is completed
On Thursday evening, I finished the last part of my AI book. Now it needs to be polished and edited, and in a little while, it will be published by Heja Framtiden publishing house.
The title is "The Centaur's Advantage – Use AI to Upgrade Your Brain, Communication, and Productivity." We'll see if the title survives the editing process.
It's a practical guide on how to use generative AI, especially ChatGPT, for writing, producing text, and thinking better and faster.
Additionally, it comes with a bonus chapter: Is AI so dangerous that we shouldn't even use it?
In it, I address the main arguments from Nick Bostrom, Max Tegmark, and others who believe that AI could lead to humanity's extinction (in Tegmark's case, he indeed believes that will be the outcome.)
The book pairs excellently with a chilled Riesling and my AI talk.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🦾 ChatGPT diagnoses as accurately as ER doctors
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🦏 Rhinos on the rise: 5% growth last year
Global rhino numbers increase to 27,000. Southern white rhino numbers rise for the first time since 2012.
🔌 Record global access to electricity
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