This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious AI labs. He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used …
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* Games offer decision makers a choice of alternative futures * Virtual reality seen as an immersive way to experience climate risk * Video games incorporating rising climate impacts By Laurie Goering LONDON, December 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It’s 2040 in Miami, and a powerful hurricane has swept through the lower town. You stand …
MONTEMOR-O-NOVO, Portugal — Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei welcomes recent public protests in China against the authorities’ tough COVID-19 policy, but he doesn’t see them leading to meaningful political change. “I don’t think it’s possible,” he told The Associated Press in an interview from his home in Portugal. Recent unrest in several Chinese …
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Hello. FortuneThe Brainstorm AI conference kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, providing a dramatic testament to the advances in AI technology that have been made over the past year. (If you haven’t followed these advances, check out this article on Open AI’s new chatbot or play with its sibling, Dall-E, which creates images from text.) …
Tuvalu’s defining attribute on the world stage is the precarious nature of its existence – in less than a hundred years it will disappear. But, in an effort to preserve Tuvalu’s maritime borders, culture and sovereignty in the face of stochastic events and rising sea levels, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Kausea Natano announced he was leading …
Depending on who you ask, some say quantum computers could either break the internet, rendering just about every data security protocol obsolete, or allow us to calculate our way out of the climate crisis. These super-powerful devices, an emerging technology that exploits the properties of quantum mechanics, are causing a stir. Just last month, IBM …
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In the last 18 months, Terraforming, a global forest restoration startup, has launched 13 reforestation projects in 10 countries. The Hawaii-based company has launched projects from Armenia to Ghana and from Ecuador to India. Granular data will become one of the most powerful tools to restore forests and reduce carbon where logging, agriculture and real …
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IIn mid-November, several striking monuments rose from the ground in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. One paid homage to Gaspar Yanga, a slave-turned-liberator who led a successful uprising against Spanish colonizers in the 16th century. Yanga does not appear in many American textbooks, and the Los Angeles City Council did not pay for the …
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Outside the Richmond Telephone Company office on State Road, a reel of fiber optic cable is connected to a utility pole. The company is one of the few independent companies of its type still in operation in Massachusetts and has begun installing high-speed fiber optic Internet for residents of the city. STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN — THE …
The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has announced that it will build a digital version of itself in the metaverse to preserve its cultural heritage as it faces an existential threat from climate change. “As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation,” Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon …
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