MIT Technology Review
AI can now train on tiny 4-bit computers
6 min · · Powerful neural networks could soon train on smartphones with dramatically faster speeds and less energy. · Shared by 195, including AI, Harold Sinnott, Terence Mills, niazakhan, Nicolas Babin, John Nosta, Brian Ahier, Martina Pugliese, Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, andre hollstein
Benedict Evans
What comes after smartphones? — Benedict Evans
4 min · · Computing has always moved forwards in jumps of scale, but smartphones reach everyone on earth, so what’s the next jump? AV and VR? Cloud, machine learning and crypto? Or is that the wrong model to… · Shared by 212, including Gabriele, Lelio Simi, Johannes Dornisch, blinch, Michael Grupe, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian Halligan, Scott Brinker
MIT Press
Chatting With the Dead
5 min · · In giving voice to the digital ghosts of the deceased, chatbots are trying to succeed where photography and dreams fail. · Shared by 38, including Nige Roberts-Willson, Patricia Smith, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rick King, Bob E. Hayes, Howard Getson
The Guardian
Campaign seeks 1bn people to save climate
4 min · · Count Us In urges actions such as eating local, making clothes last or buying an electric car · Shared by 94, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Pleil, Alexandria Villaseñor, Nils Hitze
The Guardian
A second Trump term would be 'game over' for the climate, says one of the world's top climate scientists
5 min · · Michael Mann, one of the world’s most eminent climate experts, says Earth’s future ‘is in the hands of American citizens’ · Shared by 119, including Heather McTeer Toney #Beyondpetrochemicals♻️, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Patrick Scheuerer, Katja Evertz, David Wallace-Wells, Prof Michael E. Mann, Alexandria Villaseñor
The Guardian
Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah
3 min · · Climate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland · Shared by 177, including Noah Smith, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gregg Caruso, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Damian Carrington, George Monbiot, Eric Holthaus, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz
electronicdesign.com
Brave New World: Everything Gets Smarter When 5G and AI Combine
4 min · · Once considered sci-fi technology, artificial intelligence is rapidly working its way into many facets of our daily lives, and will accelerate further with the data avalanche coming from 5G. · Shared by 152, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, AI, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Brian Ahier, Jonathan Kogan, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Harold Sinnott, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Prof. Sally Eaves, Nige Roberts-Willson, Nicolas Babin
The Guardian
The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call
4 min · · Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality · Shared by 189, including Katja Evertz, Tim, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, William Gibson, David Wallace-Wells, Alexandria Villaseñor, Poppytalk, Jerry Saltz, Gabriele, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦
The Guardian
How SUVs conquered America and the world to become a chief climate offender
7 min · · Exclusive new emissions analysis shows how much more dangerous SUVs are for the climate than smaller vehicles, and how they have become part of our lives · Shared by 121, including Horace Dediu, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Bernhard Huessy, Tim, Mark Lynas, Hiroko Tabuchi, Dan Hill
The Guardian
Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
3 min · · ‘Stunned’ scientists say there is little doubt global heating is to blame for the loss · Shared by 243, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Birgit Schefer, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️, Neil Hart 💙, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rob Tiffany, Jansnet, Thomas Pleil, Matthias Lampe, Jerry Saltz, Katja Evertz, Pip Morris
Vox
Air pollution is much worse than we thought
10 min · · Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone. · Shared by 192, including Molly Wood, Fabrizio Bianchi, Damian Carrington, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Claudia Sommer, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Neil Hart 💙, Matthias Lampe, Dr. Jonathan Foley, publici, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Katja Evertz, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Philanthropy News Digest
Fast Company
Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices
15+ min · · The consumer-electronics research arm has been quiet for years—but it’s also been busy. Its new mission: Make Google hardware as smart as Google software. · Shared by 125, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, John Nosta, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Johannes Dornisch, Stephan Woodtli, Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz
TechCrunch
Elon Musk sets update on brain-computer interface company Neuralink for August 28
1 min · · Elon Musk said on Twitter this week that Neuralink, the company he founded in 2016 to develop computer-brain interfaces for the explicit purpose of helping humans keep pace with advanced artificial… · Shared by 165, including Rick King, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ExApologist, Bob E. Hayes, Jansnet, Nige Roberts-Willson, John Nosta
The New York Times
It’s 2022. What Does Life Look Like?
11+ min · · The pandemic could shape the world, much as World War II and the Great Depression did. · Shared by 237, including Barnaby Skinner, George M 🇪🇺, Steve Case, Konrad Weber, Jeff Richards, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard, David Leonhardt, Howard Getson, Brian Halligan, Connie Ragen Green, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Mark Kaigwa
VentureBeat
Black roboticists on racism, bias, and building better AI
7 min · · Black roboticists on creating better AI, accountability, addressing bias, and how to make a more diverse world in acadamia, tech, and STEM education. · Shared by 62, including Andra Keay 🐳 @robotlaunch@mstdn.social, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nige Roberts-Willson, Prof. Anima Anandkumar, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Marktechpost AI Research News ⚡, Harold Sinnott, Rick King, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Ronald van Loon, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
The Verge
What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias
6 min · · AI bias is about more than bad data · Shared by 193, including Ronald van Loon, Eric Bailey, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Artnome, Gabriele, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Ariya Hidayat, Gideonro, Martin Ford, Bob E. Hayes, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯