Eni, Italy’s national oil company, has married AI and the world’s most powerful supercomputer outside of the U.S. to find new oil and gas deposits.
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ANOTHER INDUSTRY ENDANGERED BY AI
The online education industry—tutoring, exam prep, and similar services—was flooded with $17.3 billion in investments during the COVID War as students were locked down at home.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI GETTING BETTER, HUMANS, NOT SO MUCH
New research published in the science journal Societies has taken perhaps the most detailed look yet at the effects of growing human use of and reliance on generative AI.
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THE FUTURE WORLD: MORE ALIEN, OR HUMAN?
Every so often, it’s a good thing for anyone to assess how they’re doing—in life, work, and even play.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PRICING TARGETS WHAT YOU CAN PAY, HUMANOIDS GOING MAINSTREAM 2025, AND MAJOR OUTLET CONFIRMS “MIND-VASION”
Mass production of robots and AI agents—and massive new pressure on human workers—are set to happen in 2025.
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WHAT WE FORECAST IN EARLY 2023: NEW WSJ PIECE SAYS IP INFRINGEMENT SPELLS BIG PROBLEMS FOR AI
Big Tech AI companies spent 2024 trying to convince the world that AI was safe, and would lead to a new age of human advancement and prosperity.
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NEXT VERSION OF CHAT-GPT WILL COST “BILLIONS” TO BUILD, CFO SAYS
The greatest barrier to a new, more powerful version of OpenAI’s iconic Chat-GPT is not technical but financial, CFO Sarah Friar said in a Bloomberg interview.
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SOFTBANK TEASES $100 MILLION INVESTMENT IN U.S. AI BY 2029
Softbank, Japan’s venture capital colossus, has slated a $100-million investment in the U.S. AI industry on hopes that the incoming Trump administration will accelerate the industry’s growth and dissemination.
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FED OFFICIAL FORECASTS PRODUCTIVITY BOOM, THANKS TO AI
As a young economist in the late 1990s at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Mary Daly identified factors that soon led to a surge in U.S. economic productivity.
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GOOGLE’S AI WEATHERMAN IS TWICE AS ACCURATE AS HUMAN FORECASTERS
GenCast, Google’s new AI-based weather forecaster, absorbed daily weather data recorded in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts from 1978 through 2018.