I am creating several scenarios for the sessions I faciliate. I would love to run this one here!

IMAGINE: In 2125, AI and robotics have advanced to create perfect android replicas of deceased loved ones. These replicas not only look and sound like the original person but also behave, emote, and adapt with startling realism, drawing from extensive digital and personal archives. Families embrace them for comfort, while others view them as unsettling echoes of the past. Society is divided on whether these androids are a gift of connection or a distortion of human life.

If you had the chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?

I'm sure Lemmy will downvote this to hell, but o3 really is a big big deal. This benchmark was considered to be incredibly difficult to solve. It was highly unexpected that any AI system would meet the performance criteria at least for a few years.

The flip side however, is that o3 is veeeeery expensive to run. It also is not open source. That's why, it hasn't won the Arc prize- which has performance, efficiency and open source requirements. o3 has met the performance requirements for now, which is still very very impressive.

I would recommend giving the article a read to understand and appreciate what this is actually about.

Also, just a little note - We should fight to seize the means of production. We should not fight the means of production itself.

I am reading The New Wave, the last book from Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman. He mentioned that a massive study pegged down the General Purpose Technologies to be only 24 in human history, but I can’t find the study. Does anybody know the study? This is the list btw:

• Domestication of plants
• Domestication of animals
• Smelting of ore
• Money
• Wheel
• Writing
• Bronze
• Iron
• Water wheel
• Three-masted sailing ship
• Printing
• Factory system
• Steam Engine
• Railways
• Steamship
• Internal combustion engine
• Electricity
• Automobile
• Airplane
• Mass production
• Computer
• Lean production
• Internet
• Biotechnology

RC model of Zorglup' (europe Zyklotrop) aircraft of Spirou & Fantasio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAbTzaiQBo

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1578660

Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint::According to one professor, we may be able to stop climate change if we used a new super white paint to cover the entire United States

Gen Zers are still in the early stages of their careers and personal finance journeys, but their financial habits are already proving to be radically different from those of their predecessors. With heightened levels of anxiety about the future grounded in very real socioeconomic and environmental issues, Gen Zers are reconfiguring their approach to money.

For those beacons of anti-capitalism and pivotal figures in the Great Resignation, financial success in the age of “late-stage capitalism” looks very different from how other generations may have defined it. Gen Z’s economic outlook is bleak

Gen Zers have encountered their own set of unique challenges entering the workforce at a time of global societal uncertainty. From graduating during a global pandemic to current fears around inflation, wage stagnation, growing inequality, and an impending recession, many feel that the cards are stacked against them. A recent study by Fidelity Investments found that 45% of people ages 18 to 35

TOKYO -- A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with clinical trials set to begin in July 2024.

The tooth regrowth medicine is intended for people who lack a full set of adult teeth due to congenital factors. The team is aiming to have it ready for general use in 2030.

Work is now underway to get the drug ready for human use. Once confirmed to have no ill effects on the human body, it will be aimed at treating children aged 2 to 6 who exhibit anodontia. "We hope to pave the way for the medicine's clinical use," Takahashi said.

Although this will be used for congenital defects in children in Japan, I see no reason this couldn't be used in adults as well. Regrowing all your teeth at once might be painful, but it will be worth it for many.