Science

Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump

#Science #Trump #U.S.A.

It’s morning in America, so I’m very happy. I think the analogy for what’s happening right now is 1980—the transition from the ’70s to the ’80s and the Carter-Reagan race.…

Jacques Bopp

AI Can’t Teach AI New Tricks

#Science #Economy

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that “powerful AI” will surpass human intelligence in many areas by 2026. OpenAI claims its latest models “ They can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems.” Thinking? Reasoning? Will AI become humanlike? Conscious?…

Jacques Bopp

This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

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Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology’s existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’…

Jacques Bopp

Nebelspalter | Droht in Europa eine neue Eiszeit?

#Science #Global Warming

Vor kurzem berichteten die Medien aufgeregt darüber, dass laut einer neuen niederländischen Studie der Golfstrom versiegen könnte. Das würde in Europa zu einer verheerenden Abkühlung führen.…

Jacques Bopp

Conservatives Set to Abandon Sceptics as Temperatures Spike

#Science #Global Warming

Before the advent of computer simulation modelling and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the past record of climate change was assembled from a variety of different types of evidence including chronicles, grain price records, radiocarbon dating, pollen analysis and vegetation.…

Jacques Bopp

The Earth Is Warming, but Is CO2 the Cause?

#Science #Global Warming

If this column has ever plagiarized itself, it’s by repeating the phrase “evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming.…

Jacques Bopp

Average temperatures

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A fellow phoned me yesterday, he had just returned home from a holiday in Greece. He has holidayed there off and on for the last 20 years. It had never been so cold, he told me.…

Jacques Bopp

The Autism Surge: Lies, Conspiracies, and My Own Kids

#Science #U.S.A. #Health

In the summer of 2001 we took our younger son, two-year-old Jonathan, to the neurologist. He hadn’t developed speech, never played with toys, and had a compulsion to stare at cracks in the pavement while flapping his hands. The diagnosis was almost instant: autism.…

Jacques Bopp

The internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

#Politics #Software #Science

If I had the energy, I suppose I could fill a hundred pages trying to prove it, but what would be the point? Whole ) [_have been_](https://substack.…

Jacques Bopp

The era of artificial intelligence is here, and boy, are people freaking out

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Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.…

Jacques Bopp