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Vijaya Ramachandran, Juzel Lloyd, and Seaver Wang at the Breakthrough Journal: Amongst the many energy-hungry technologies supporting modern society, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a major driver of energy
Rachel Dec in LA Review of Books: IN 2022, AS THE labor market thrived, a noticeable gap emerged between traditional economic indicators (which seemed good) and the lived experiences of
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez at Singularity Hub: Things we used to have to pay a lot for are now cheap or even free—think about how much it costs to buy
Continue readingIf Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?
Eric Smalley at The Conversation: Asking ChatGPT a question is quite a bit different from searching on Google. This is for a number of reasons. But one that can be
Continue readingExplosion in AI-driven Data Centres is Putting Pressure on the Grid
by Santiago Ramos at Wisdom of Crowds: Something happens to a country when it gets its first McDonald’s. There was once something called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.
Continue readingWhat Does McDonald’s Mean? Reflections After a Trip to So. America
From The American Prospect (TAP): In March, President Biden established a Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing, an interagency team designed to coordinate responses to the growing use of
Lois Parshley at The Lever: In early May, Google announced it would be adding artificial intelligence to its search engine. When the new feature rolled out, AI Overviews began offering summaries to
Shoestring Jane at Mouthy Money: Here are some common lies we tell ourselves about debt. I’m just no good with money Debt is normal I deserve a treat It’s going
Continue readingBE4C4 Report: The Debt Lies We Tell Ourselves
Michael Le Page in New Scientist: Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate reconstructions of what someone is looking at based on recordings of their brain activity. These reconstructed images
Continue readingMind-reading AI Recreates What You’re Looking at With Amazing Accuracy
By Timothy Grieve-Carlson at OUP: At the beginning of another summer that will likely prove to be the hottest in the planet’s recorded history, it is easy to feel like
Continue readingWhat Can Seventeenth-century Sources Teach us About Living With Climate Change?
From Anthropocene: Lithium is key to our electric, low-carbon future. The best known rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage rely on the silvery metal. But the supply
Continue readingSieving Lithium Out of Salty Waters Get a Boost From a Nature-inspired Membrane
From Project Syndicate: At the latest Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that it is not only launching its own suite of artificial-intelligence models, but also integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its