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Almost 2.5 million people signed up to Dr. B with the promise of getting leftover vaccines. Months later, the site won’t disclose how many doses it helped deliver—or what it plans to do with all that user data. https://t.co/sql52z96RH — PolitiTweet.org

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A blind man can perceive objects after a gene from algae was added to his eye. https://t.co/tOd4n4EahQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Supersmart machines might be able to think through humanity’s dead-ends, helping us unpick vastly complex crises such as climate change or global health. But first we have to make them. Or do we? https://t.co/uHF7ajvqp5 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Individuals should not have to fight for their data privacy rights and be responsible for every consequence of their digital actions,” writes @martintisne. Instead, collective data rights are what can stop big tech from obliterating our privacy. https://t.co/9CHB2MI4JO — PolitiTweet.org

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A new startup is relying on minerals to pull carbon dioxide out of the air, in one of the first commercial efforts to deploy what’s known as enhanced weathering to slow climate change. https://t.co/qoZwfbAxGu — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] In a “cookieless” future, “consumers must have ultimate control over their data and how it’s being used by brands,” says @Adobe’s Amit Ahuja.(With @Adobe) https://t.co/nSAZx88ba2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Startup Phantom Space wants to be the Henry Ford of rockets. https://t.co/kqxOGtUjvj — PolitiTweet.org

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“It’s a bit of a joke, really," says a vaccine tourist from Nairobi, Kenya. "Is it really better to fly loads of people to New York to do this than to just fly some vaccines from New York to places where vaccines are needed?” https://t.co/D13csWKxyd — PolitiTweet.org

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The likely goal, two cybersecurity firms say, is to trick high-profile Uyghurs inside China and Pakistan into opening a back door to their computers. https://t.co/e9YMCcBZfP — PolitiTweet.org

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👀 READ this subscriber exclusive by @strwbilly about how artificial intelligence is learning how to create itself. https://t.co/ssNxtiRoRp — PolitiTweet.org

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“I mean, it’s almost like inventing interstellar travel and being able to go visit alien cultures ... Interstellar travel is exceedingly difficult, but we have the ability to potentially create alien intelligences digitally" - @JeffClune — PolitiTweet.org

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In the nearer term, the technique might also help us discover different kinds of intelligence: non-human smarts that can find solutions in unexpected ways and perhaps complement our own intelligence rather than replace it. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Clune is right, using AI to make AI could be an important step on the road that one day leads to artificial general intelligence (AGI)—machines that can outthink humans. https://t.co/DpbuULgT56 — PolitiTweet.org

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“We need to take the shackles off and get out of our own way,” says Clune. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today, seven decades after serious efforts to make AI began, we’re still a long way from creating machines that are anywhere near as smart as humans, let alone smarter. Clune thinks POET might point to a shortcut. — PolitiTweet.org

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Clune calls the attempt to build truly intelligent AI the most ambitious scientific quest in human history. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wang’s former colleague @JeffClune is among the biggest boosters of this idea. Now dividing his time between the University of British Columbia and @OpenAI, he has the backing of one of the world’s top artificial-intelligence labs. https://t.co/zS6tyToF4h — PolitiTweet.org

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It may seem basic at the moment, but for Wang and a handful of other researchers, POET hints at a revolutionary new way to create supersmart machines: by getting AI to make itself. — PolitiTweet.org

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But it’s not what the bots are learning that’s exciting—it’s *how* they’re learning. POET generates the obstacle courses, assesses the bots’ abilities, and assigns their next challenge, all without human involvement. Step by faltering step, the bots improve via trial and error. — PolitiTweet.org

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POET is a kind of training dojo for virtual bots. So far, they aren’t learning to do much at all—they’re trying to navigate a crude cartoon landscape of fences and ravines without falling over. — PolitiTweet.org

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An AI researcher at @Uber, Wang likes to leave the Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer, a piece of software he helped develop, running on his laptop overnight. https://t.co/8Bdbv67RDz — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet @ruiwang2uiuc is delighted. “Every day I walk into my office and open my computer, and I don’t know what to expect,” he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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A little stick figure with a wedge-shaped head shuffles across the screen. It moves in a half crouch, dragging one knee along the ground. It’s walking! Er, sort of. https://t.co/qttJkv6lVs — PolitiTweet.org

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Artificial intelligence might not need us to become smarter than we are. This thread is about how AI is learning how to create itself. https://t.co/3POh7aFvLP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @niallfirth: Ready for the next deep AI dive from @strwbilly ? Sure you are! Here he tells us about AI that is learning to teach itself—… — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] Business Lab podcast: “It’s pretty much impossible these days to run almost any size company where if your IT goes down, your company is still able to run,” says Matt Kraning, CTO of Cortex Xpanse (With @PaloAltoNtwks and @CortexbyPANW) https://t.co/rG51DHlLb9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Family-friendly voice games have rocketed up the download charts during the pandemic. Here's why. https://t.co/rMbsMcXJWd — PolitiTweet.org