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Technology and Social Change
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (209+ words) It's sometimes hard to believe that Chat GPT was first released to the public less than four years ago. At this point AI is everywhere. This may be the most rapid adoption of a major new technology in history. Despite…...
Talking With Azeem Azhar
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1781+ words) I last spoke with Azeem, the proprietor of Exponential View, 18 months ago " ancient history on this subject. So we revisited the state of AI. TRANSCRIPT: Paul Krugman in Conversation with Azeem Azhar So hi, welcome to another conversation. Azeem Azhar:…...
MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U. S. Science
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (708+ words) With all the other terrible news right now, you may not have noticed that Donald Trump is in the process of killing American science. OK, that's an exaggeration " but not that much of an exaggeration. The Trump administration's latest budget…...
In Batteries We Trust
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (386+ words) The war goes on, and so does the global energy crisis. In fact, I believe that prices of oil futures remain too low given how much spot prices will need to rise to resolve the shortages that will hit once…...
Talking with David Roberts
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1934+ words) I've been reading David Roberts on energy and climate for years, first at Grist, then at Vox, now at Volts, his Substack. Now we're in a war-generated energy crisis, with many people reconsidering the energy future, and I thought a…...
How to Burn Less Oil
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (195+ words) The world economy must find a way to function while burning less oil. And in the longer run, we're now having an object lesson in the strategic risks of depending so much on oil " risks that add to the already…...
The Plot Against Intelligence, Human and Artificial
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (427+ words) So far I personally have made almost no use of AI. But I know people who use it all the time. Broadly speaking, they fall into two groups. Some use AI casually or for fun; they generally use Open AI's…...
Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1052+ words) It has been a brutal winter in much of the United States. Weather is a chaotic system in which extreme events are always happening somewhere. But as I am sure you have noticed, extreme weather events " catastrophic storms and flooding,…...