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Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
 Also, as of this publication we’ve deployed 120 balloons and 90,820 Cooling Credits which offsets the warming of 90,820 metric tons of CO2 for a year. This is the equivalent of planting 4,324,761 mature trees that last for a year, assuming each mature tree absorbs about 21 kilograms of CO2 per year. Learn more here: https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/calculating-cooling
In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their experiment included a device designed to spray a sea-salt mist off the deck of a docked aircraft carrier. The light-reflecting aerosols, the scientists hoped, would hang in the air and temporarily cool things down in the area. It would have been the first outdoor test in the United States of such a machine, had the city council not shut it down before the experiment was concluded.
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Editor's Note: Over the past few years, geoengineering research and hype has spawned investment in new startups attempting to capitalize on growing interest and on impatience with sluggish climate policies. For example, in 2022, Andrew Song, an entrepreneur, co-founded Make Sunsets, a startup backed by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firms like Boost VC and Draper Associates. The company has focused its efforts on developing balloons releasing stratospheric aerosols, mainly sulfur dioxide. To make money, the company sells cooling credits, at a rate of per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions they claim to offset, with the idea that corporations buying them can do so to reach their net-zero emissions targets.
WorkMeta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B. In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said that the text-only Llama 3.3 70B delivers the performance of Meta's largest Llama model, Llama 3.1 405B, at lower cost. WorkChatbots vs AI Chatbots vs Agents: What are they?In this article, I am going to discuss what chatbots are, their different kinds, and how to differentiate between a simple chatbot, an AI chatbot, and a virtual agent. In the next article, I am going to talk about AI-enabled chatbots and show how we can use botpress.com to create one.
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WorkWorkThe Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024 Of the many great books I read this year, the following 10 have stayed with me, undergirded my thoughts as I go about my days and provoked excellent, chewy conversations about craft and pleasure, empire and resistance.
WorkWhy Wouldn't ChatGPT Say This Dead Professor's Name? Across the final years of his life, David Mayer, a theater professor living in Manchester, England, faced the cascading consequences of an unfortunate coincidence: A dead Chechen rebel on a terror watch list had once used Mr. Mayer's name as an alias. The real Mr. Work WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkLook Deep Into the Mind's EyeOne day in 2005, a retired building surveyor in Edinburgh visited his doctor with a strange complaint: His mind's eye had suddenly gone blind. The surveyor, referred to as MX by his doctors, was 65 at the time. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkThe Debanking Craze Reveals Everything Wrong with the Administrative State After an appearance by financier Marc Andreessen on the Joe Rogan Podcast, Elon Musk's X exploded with indignation that tech entrepreneurs were being debanked owing to government pressure. Progressives pounced, saying that the story was exaggerated, and agencies had been trying to stop debanking. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow lucrative are MPs second jobs? - The Economist (No paywall) GETTING PAID for eating camels penis and sheeps vagina on television may be an unnatural activity for an MP, but it was lucrative work for Matt Hancock. The former health secretary, who represented West Suffolk in the House of Commons for 14 years until May, pocketed 320,000 ($400,000) for appearing on Im a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here in 2022. Second jobs reward some MPs handsomely. Do they serve their constituents interests? WorkWhich of Your Selves Should Win? - The New Yorker (No paywall) Before she presented the paper that became her book Transformative Experience, L.A. Paul remembers thinking, This is going to ruin my career. She was forty-six, a philosopher with tenure at the University of Arizona, and she was asking her colleagues to consider the experience of having a childa vital area of concern in millions of peoples lives, but rarely discussed in the world of academic philosophy. Its all going to be over, because here I am talking about babies. WorkWorkIran evacuating military in Syria as rebels advance: Report Syrian insurgents took control of the central city of Hama following the retreat of government forces on Thursday, just days after rebels captured most of Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city. By Friday, rebels seized the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor while also reaching the outskirts of Homs, the country's third-largest city. WorkWorkThe GPT Era Is Already Ending - The Atlantic (No paywall) This week, OpenAI launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called the smartest model in the worlda generative-AI program whose capabilities are supposedly far greater, and more closely approximate how humans think, than those of any such software preceding it. The start-up has been building toward this moment since September 12, a day that, in OpenAIs telling, set the world on a new path toward superintelligence. WorkIs Philosophy the Next LLM Training Frontier? IDE: Most will agree that ethical, responsible AI is a touchstone for developers. Yet, you are proposing an even higher goal -- philosophical AI. How do these concepts meld and overlap? Why do you see philosophy as the ultimate aim for AI success? WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhat Companies Should Be Asking Their Security Teams Right Now - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) In a year of febrile politics, rising popular frustration with institutions, and two separate attempts to assassinate President Trump, the risks to executives in just about any industry cannot be minimized. The presence of an estimated more than 400 million firearms in the United States, combined with easy access to personal location data, schedules, and life patterns only adds to the danger. How does a company strike the right approach in preventing the low likelihood, but very high consequence of an attack on a CEO? One effective assessment tool for execs and chief security officers alike is to examine three simple factors of risk: threat, vulnerability, and consequence. By looking closely at each component, companies can assess the nature, degree, and seriousness of virtually any risk. Most importantly, this assessment can guide the all-important decisions about which resources to employ to reduce it. |
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