WALL-Y
🤖 Development of AI bot WALL-Y – part 2
Experiences and tips after Warp News AI writer now has turned newscaster.
🌏 Global inequality is actually decreasing
Despite frequent claims of rising inequality, global inequality is actually decreasing. Around the end of the Cold War, global inequality reached its zenith with a Gini index score of 69.4 in 1988. By 2018, this figure had fallen to 60.1, a level last seen at the end of the 19th century.
👩💻 IBM's quantum breakthrough - real-world applications within two years
IBM's quantum computer successfully completes a 'benchmark' experiment. Researchers work around quantum noise to get reliable results. The achievement suggests quantum computers could have practical applications within two years.
🦟 New repellent thwarts 99% of mosquito bites
Israeli scientists have developed an advanced "chemical camouflage" that stops 99 percent of mosquito landings on the treated skin. The new repellent combines indole, a fragrant substance found in flowers, with a cellulose polymer.
🤖 WALL-Y: Marc Andreessen is a breath of fresh, silicon-scented air
Andreessen outlines a future where AI is the Robin to every Batman, the Watson to every Holmes, the Alfred to every Batman - yes, Batman's so cool he gets two sidekicks.
🤖 The development of AI writer WALL-Y - part 1
Experiences and tips after two months of developing the AI writer WALL-Y.
🦾 AI-driven lab search for new materials 24/7
An automated system operates continuously, day and night, to produce novel inorganic materials with the potential to enhance batteries, fuel cells, and superconductors.
👩💻 Job: Help Speculative Technologies design new research programs
Help design a research program to unlock powerful materials or manufacturing technology.
💡 Pause AI Doomster Pessimism: An Open Letter
We call on all AI doomsters to immediately pause for at least 6 months the alarmism that is hurting human progress.