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by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Bacteria and antibiotics have been in a roughly century-long game of cat and mouse. Unfortunately, bacteria are gaining the upper hand.According to the World
Continue readingThese Scientists Are Battling Dangerous Superbugs With a ChatGPT-Like AI
Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis: Because of this renewed sense of urgency to deal with the philosophical and political underpinnings of the technological future, it is well worth
From Unlearning Economics Live: Dr Ingrid Kvangraven, a senior lecturer in International Development at King’s College London. Ingrid specializing in dependency theory, a branch of scholarship that emphases that poorer
M.V. Ramana at Literary Hub: I am scared about how fast climate change is disrupting our world. At a theoretical level, I have known for decades about growing carbon dioxide
Continue readingWhy Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: The brain is like a medieval castle perched on a cliff, protected on all sides by high walls, making it nearly impenetrable. Its shield is the
Continue readingHow a Mind-Controlling Parasite Could Deliver Medicine to the Brain
by Mike Bendzela at 3 Quarks Daily: Today is a bit of an experiment. I take the row covers off of two forty-foot rows of beans (three varieties) as the
by Alex Kantrowitz at Big Technology: In Deepak Pathak’s telling, nobody is building human-level artificial intelligence with language alone. You could train a large language model on billions of descriptions
Continue readingThis Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs.
By Matthew L. Wald at The Breakthrough Journal: Lots of people have high hopes for an energy transition, but they’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Yes, solar
Continue readingClean Energy May be Growing, But It’s Not Replacing Dirty Energy
C. Brandon Ogbunu at The Undark revisits a debate about so-called “research parasites” — scientists who use and reanalyze other people’s data. The large language models used in generative AI
Continue readingRevisiting the ‘Research Parasite’ Debate in the Age of AI
Joel Kotkin at The New Atlantis: Simply put, downtowns matter less and less. In Austin and elsewhere, we are witnessing an epochal shift away from the highly concentrated urban center
Continue readingDowntowns Don’t Matter Anymore. Exurbanism is the New Urbanism.
By Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Scientists have developed little beads called hydrogels that can capture water from the ambient air, and use it to irrigate soil—while simultaneously dosing the surrounding
Continue readingSelf-watering, Self-fertilizing Soil is Now a Step Closer to Reality
by Malcolm Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: As AI evolves, so do the risks it poses on society. The risks of AI today are already unrecognizable from those of a