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Older Swiss women just set a global legal precedent for challenging their nation’s climate change policy
Their victory in the European Court of Human Rights is a huge win for the climate.
New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company. It might be a tipping point for greenwashing
Letitia James’s lawsuit accuses JBS of deceiving customers about being climate-friendly – and the implications could be far-reaching
As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires
Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and millions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability.
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Brian Merchant on X: "This is fascinating, and don't think I've seen it before—a tech co advertising its services as "100% LLM-Free" as a selling point. Will have to look closer at the company, but another sign of the changing tide with regard to generative AI, perhaps... https://t.co/cFmUNW4FFb https://t.co/dH09SKNSuW" / X
This is fascinating, and don't think I've seen it before—a tech co advertising its services as "100% LLM-Free" as a selling point. Will have to look closer at the company, but another sign of the changing tide with regard to generative AI, perhaps... https://t.co/cFmUNW4FFb pic.twitter.com/dH09SKNSuW— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) April 8, 2024
Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model
Proposals would mark first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds
Research looked at three London boroughs to value overall health benefits of active travel over 20 years at up to £4,800 per head
Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
The adhesive neck patch is the latest advance by UCLA bioengineers in speech technology for people with disabilities.
Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking
Coastal land is subsiding. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050.
How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years
With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
Sign of the times in Japan as nappy company switches production to adult nappies
Oji Holdings said it would stop making children’s nappies in September amid a sharp decline in demand. Japan has a rapidly ageing society
eBay to Add AI-Powered Image-Based Listing Tool
eBay will be adding an image-based listing tool to its range of offerings powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This tool will allow sellers to simply take or upload a photo within the eBay app and watch as AI automatically fills in item information details, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 7) article posted on its website. […]
Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon
Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. There's little they can do to rein in the rip-offs.
Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them
This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, 'Would You Rather' videos, and deep sea story spam come from.
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,
Don't buy their lies. Generative AI might be steeped in the language of high fantasy, but it’s a tool, one that they will not admit is a terribly-flawed and unprofitable way to feed the growth-at-all-costs tech engine.
Somebody Cloned Me in China...
It is one thing to see funny deepfakes in Instagram Reels, and it is another to receive a message saying that your face has been reused for propaganda purpos...
Brazilian authorities step in to catch fake news faster than Facebook
Experts say the move was necessary to tackle the torrent of disinformation taking over the electoral race.
After dating app murders spike in Colombia, Match Group offers to help the police
Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local authorities in Colombia to curb attacks against foreigners.
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content
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Melanie Mitchell on X: "A book on Amazon, published in 2023, with the same title as my 2019 book. The "sample" on Amazon reads like a ChatGPT summary of my book (with some small post-editing). Is this legal? Same author has published 2 dozen other books on Amazon in 2023 alone. 😠😡 https://t.co/JWnRYCj6Np" / X
A book on Amazon, published in 2023, with the same title as my 2019 book.The "sample" on Amazon reads like a ChatGPT summary of my book (with some small post-editing). Is this legal? Same author has published 2 dozen other books on Amazon in 2023 alone.😠😡 pic.twitter.com/JWnRYCj6Np— Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) January 4, 2024
🧞 Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
A Foundation Model for Playable Worlds
We introduce Genie, a foundation world model trained from Internet videos that can generate an endless variety of playable (action-controllable) worlds from synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches.
An Infinite Shortage of Managers
Issue 2: GenAI is mostly good for productivity, what does this mean?
Predictive Maintenance - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
AI ‘only scratching the surface’ of potential in financial services
Tech can spot fraud and analyse sentiment as further advances are set to transform the sector
Harnessing Big Data to Improve Refugee Resettlement - Immigration Policy Lab
An IPL-designed algorithm would help countries match refugees and asylum seekers to the location where they have the best chance at finding employment.
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Antibiogo: Diagnosis aid to treat patients with the most appropriate antibiotics
TWB Chatbots - Translators without Borders
TWB Chatbots Everyone deserves the information they need and want, when they want it, in their own language. Multilingual chatbot technology represents an innovative way to accomplish this vision. A chatbot is a computer program that simulates human conversations on messaging apps and devices. They are programmed to respond in realtime to users’ questions about […]
AI Chatbot Brains Are Going Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns
a physical robot arm and a virtual robot. In the virtual setting, ProgPrompt came up with plans the robot could basically execute almost all the time, and these plans succeeded at a much higher rate than any previous training system. Meanwhile the real robot, given