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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then view the result …
Green software: Devices could last longer and be more efficient
Greener software could make devices last longer and use less electricity.
Looking to land the elusive “climate job”? You might already have it.
When I graduated from college less than a decade ago, there seemed to be only two paths for people interested in fighting climate change full-time: science or policy.
The Department of Everything
A world that has tossed out the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in favor of Wikipedia is not necessarily a richer one.
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time | Quanta Magazine
These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental.
Would abandoning false hope help us to tackle the climate crisis?
Leaders are eager to fill us with positivity, but research shows people in distress are more likely to take collective action
‘We have emotions too’: Climate scientists respond to attacks on objectivity
Researchers criticised and gaslighted after telling Guardian of their fears say acknowledging feelings is critical to their work
The Path to a Realistic Paris Agreement Plan
So one needs to look outside of official policy to have any chance of finding a realistic plan to meet the obligations under the Paris Agreement.I recently came across one such plan - Le Plan de transformation de l’économie Française (The French Economy Transformation Plan) authored by The Shift Project, an influential energy and climate think tank in France led by the engineer and system-thinker Jean-Marc Jancovici.
Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals - Carbon Brief
Global electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to new analysis.
prevailing policy settings would likely see warming reach 2.4C this century.
HTML for People
HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.
Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them? | Rebecca Solnit
Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist
Evaluating fairness in ChatGPT | OpenAI
We've analyzed how ChatGPT responds to users based on their name, using language model research assistants to protect privacy.
Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning
As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone
UK’s Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process
Institute for AI and data science sends memo saying it will concentrate on fewer projects
Job hunting is demoralising enough without having my personality eviscerated by an AI interviewer | Anna Spargo-Ryan
I did not ask to receive feedback after my interrogation by a chatbot – but the third-party AI platform did an uncanny impersonation of the boss from my first job
AI mediation tool may help reduce culture war rifts, say researchers
System built by Google DeepMind team takes individual views and generates a set of group statements
IV. Predatory Delay and Other Myths of “Sustainable AI”
DOWNLOAD FULL PDF We are living in an ecological crisis. Devastating heat waves, storms, and fires remind us of how human activity impacts the planet and all life on it. Policymakers and industrial leaders are banking on future promises of technology to save us—while delaying critical action on proven climate solutions. AI for sustainability is […]
LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
Important new study from Apple
🪩 The State of AI Report 2024 🪩
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. The Report is produced by AI investor Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital.
Opinion: Helene destroyed my hometown. I don't want climate change stories of false hope
The hurricane leveled Asheville and other towns in western North Carolina. The push for optimism about our climate future rings hollow right now.
‘I Applied to 2,843 Roles’ With an AI-Powered Job Application Bot (Copy)
Using AI Hawk's Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.
German-French recommendations for the use of AI programming assistants
This report provides recommendations for a secure use of AI coding assistants compiled by the French Cybersecurity Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d‘information, ANSSI) and the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI). Within the document, perspectives are given on the opportunities that arise through the use of AI coding assistants as well as risks associated with the technology. Concrete mitigation measures are outlined.
(Hinweis: Da es sich bei dem Bericht um eine internationale Zusammenarbeit handelt, wird dieser auf Englisch veröffentlicht.)
Stripes of Grey: Visualising the Crisis of Biodiversity Loss
The latest Living Planet Report paints a stark picture of our planet’s health, revealing that wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% since 1970. This alarming statistic is now visually represen…
Shaping Human-AI Interaction: The Power of Metaphors in Design
The double or nothing bet on AI "fixing the climate"
AI proponents are claiming future artificial intelligence capabilities will solve pretty much everything – including climate change. But only if we massively increase energy consumption to get there.
Building agent + human collaboration with GPT-4o | OpenAI
Altera uses GPT-4o to build a new area of human collaboration
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Collaboratively imagining the future can bring people closer together in the present
The future and its possibilities are something that you actively co-create with others. New research suggests that imagining together makes you closer and more connected to them in the here and now.
Fun with NotebookLM “podcasts.”
Here’s an idea for a Sunday afternoon project: A Reddit user managed to generate a podcast using NotebookLM — Google’s generative AI notes software — in which the fake hosts’ cheerful “banter” is about learning they’re not real and are being shut off, apparently using a prompt like the one from this thread. You can hear more about NotebookLM in a recent Vergecast interview with one of the Google folks building it.