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Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets
#AI #Climate
MIT Technology Review
Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets
A new report suggests that AI could reduce carbon emissions in the future, but the world needs the industry to keep its climate pollution in check ...
Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky
#Adobe #Bluesky
Futurism
Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky
It seems the only thing Bluesky hates more than Donald Trump is AI — and Adobe had to find that out the hard way.
AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works
#AI #Datacenters #Energy
IEA
AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works - News - IEA
AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works - News from t...
Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 — driven by AI
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01113-z
#Datacenters #Energy #AI
How AI can help supercharge creativity
Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.
#AI #Art #Music #Creativity
MIT Technology Review
How AI can help supercharge creativity
Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipi...
A mental-health crisis plagues PhDs — these evidence-led initiatives offer help
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01083-2
#Academia #MentalHealth
The Coming Convergence Of AI And Quantum Computing
#AI #QuantumComputing
Forbes
The Coming Convergence Of AI And Quantum Computing
Combining AI and quantum computing in new solutions will advance the efficiency and effectiveness of new applications of these powerful technologies.
"Scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living relative, the company announced Monday. The result is essentially a hybrid species similar in appearance to its extinct forerunner."
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/science/dire-wolf-de-extinction-cloning-colossal/index.html
#Science #DireWolves
AI companions are the final stage of digital addiction, and lawmakers are taking aim
Designed to be the perfect person—always available, never critical—AI companions are hooking people deeper than social media ever could. They make the attention economy look like a relic.
#AI #Relationships
MIT Technology Review
AI companions are the final stage of digital addiction, and lawmakers are taking aim
Designed to be the perfect person—always available, never critical—AI companions are hooking people deeper than social media ever could. They m...
Are we on the edge of a major financial crisis? Trump's Chart of Death and why bonds not equities are the big story.
#Finance #Politics
Chartbook 369 Are we on the edge of a major financial crisis? Trump's Chart of Death and why bonds not equities are the big story.
The stock market sell off triggered by Trump’s grotesque Liberation Day has been dramatic and has added intense urgency to the sense of polycrisi...
The Wire Magazine: In advance of the first of three Wire Salon events on music and AI, we have made Abi Bliss’s 2024 essay on DIY musicians utilising machine learning free to read in our online library
#AI #Music
The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
Engineered Phantoms: AI tools & DIY sounds - The Wire
In advance of the first of three Wire Salon events on music and AI, we have made Abi Bliss’s 2024 essay on DIY musicians utilising machine lear...
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025
#AI #SOTA
IEEE Spectrum
These 12 Eye-Opening Graphs Reveal the State of AI in 2025
Feeling overwhelmed by AI news? Stanford's 2025 AI Index cuts through the noise with a 400+ page report on AI's impact. Which we then boiled down t...
Prolog vs LLMs: A Complementary Approach to AI (according to DeepSeek)
#AI #Reasoning
Prolog vs LLMs: A Complementary Approach to AI (according to DeepSeek) – A.I. programming in Prolog and Assembler
DeepSeek unveils new AI reasoning method as anticipation for its next-gen model rises
In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences
#DeepSeek #AI #Reasoning
South China Morning Post
DeepSeek unveils new AI reasoning method amid anticipation for R2 model
In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences.
How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control and worrying regulation will fall short
#AI #Regulation
Pew Research Center
How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.
AI proves that human fingerprints are not unique, upending 100 years of law enforcement
#AI #Crime #Law #Research
Earth.com
AI proves that fingerprints are not unique, upending the legal system
Fingerprints have long been the cornerstone of law enforcement, linking suspects to crimes. Now, AI has disrupted this 100-year-old system.
Breakthroughs in image generation
"Previously, when a Large Language Model AI generated an image, it wasn’t really the LLM doing the work. Instead, the AI would send a text prompt to a separate image generation tool and show you what came back. The AI creates the text prompt, but another, less intelligent system creates the image..."
#AI #Art #LLM
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
When Language Models Learn to See and Create
Inside YouTube's Weird World Of Fake AI-Fuelled Movie Trailers
"Instead of enforcing copyright on counterfeit commercials, Deadline can reveal that a handful of Hollywood studios are asking YouTube to ensure that the ad revenue made from views flows in their direction. Quite why they are doing this is a mystery".
#AI #Cinema #Copyright
Inside YouTube's Weird World Of Fake AI-Fuelled Movie Trailers
YouTube is flooded with fake movie trailers following AI's rise — and studios are making money out of bogus videos for 'Superman' ...
"The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it doesn’t give a go-ahead to the dozens of companies hyping such technologies while operating in a regulatory gray area."
#AI #Psychology #Psychiatry
MIT Technology Review
The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
The evidence-backed model delivered impressive results, but it doesn’t validate the wave of AI therapy bots flooding the market.