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LISTEN: Unprecedented Amazon Drought Threatens To Release Huge Stores Of Carbon – The Conversation Podcast
Published: Dec. 7, 2023 As world leaders and their climate negotiators gathered at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in early December, on the other side of the world, Brazil was experiencing an ...
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‘We Will Coup Whoever We Want!’: The Unbearable Hubris Of Musk And The Billionaire Tech Bros -- Douglas Ruskoff
Douglas RushkoffChallenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behavior of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial Douglas Rushkoff -- The ...
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Human Survival Is At Risk -- Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniNouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Nov 24, 2023 It is now common knowledge that economic, monetary, and financial threats are rising and interacting in dangerous ways with various ...
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Google DeepMind’s new Gemini model looks amazing -- but could signal peak AI hype -- Melissa Heikkilä and Will Douglas Heaven, MIT
DALL-E 3 prompted by THE DECODER It outmatches GPT-4 in almost all ways—but only by a little. Was the buzz worth it? Melissa Heikkilä andWill Douglas Heaven -- MIT Technology Review Dec. 6, 2023 ...
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LISTEN: Ian Parry: Carbon Pricing and the Power of a Good Idea -- IMF Podcast
Ian Parry International Monetary Fund Nov. 21, 2023 IN THIS EPISODE Carbon pricing is steadily emerging as one of the most viable solutions to reducing global emissions, but shedding its contentious ...
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LISTEN: Artificial Intelligence Trends For 2024 -- The Digital Revolution With Jim Kunkle
The Digital Revolution With Jim Kunkle December 2023 This is Jim Kunkle, Host of the Digital Revolution Podcast and I want to wish you a very Happy New Year and great success for you throughout ...
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LISTEN: Daniel Susskind -- AI’s Transformation of Labor -- IMF Podcasts
David SusskindDaniel Susskind -- International Monetary Fund Nov. 30, 2023 There’s no question that Artificial Intelligence will increase productivity -- but at what cost? What happens when systems ...
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LISTEN: Climate Goals And Debt -- A Fiscal Balancing Act -- IMF Podcasts
Alaska polar bear International Monetary Fund Nov. 28, 2023 Global warming is wreaking havoc on so many levels, but climate action is costly and presents policymakers with difficult tradeoffs. High ...
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Good AI, bad AI: Decoding responsible artificial intelligence -- Alice Trend, Liming Zhu and Qinghua Lu, CSIRO
DALL-E prompt: The funniest AI image ever. Credit: DALL-E Alice Trend, Liming Zhu and Qinghua Lu -- CSIRO Nov. 24, 2023 Artificial intelligence is so hot right now. ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other ...
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'Naked Clams': Aquaculture System Turns Marine Pest Into Nutritious Seafood -- University of Cambridge
Naked Clam juveniles in petri dish. Credit: University of Plymouth University of Cambridge Nov. 20, 2023 Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world's ...
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BOOKS: Empire of Normality; Neurodiversity and Capitalism -- Robert Chapman
Empire of Normality; Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman Nov. 19, 2023 Published by Pluto Press in Nov 2023 The neurodiversity movement suggests that it takes all kinds of minds for ...
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