More than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems.
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Khoj International Artists’ Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari’s recent project, In the matter Re: Rights of Nature took the form of a fictional National Green Tribunal (NGT) hearing exploring the relationship between the air pollution of Delhi / National Capital Region (NCR) and the stubble burning phenomena which occurs annually in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana.
Alexander Skarsgård explains the answer to everything. (It involves doing some math.)
Partha Dasgupta is a Cambridge University economist who in 2021 prepared a more than 600-page report for the British government about the financial value of nature.
The age of AI has begun
Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet.
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The Amazon’s largest isolated tribe is dying
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Nonprofits as battlegrounds for democracy
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The man who leaked the pentagon papers is scared
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