AI’s Penicillin and X-Ray Moment
Matteo Wong | The Atlantic
“When the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, he designated funds to reward those that ‘have conferred the best profit to humankind.’ The ensuing Nobel Prizes have since been awarded to the discoverers of penicillin, X-rays, and the construction of DNA—and, as of as we speak, to 2 scientists who, many years in the past, laid the foundations for contemporary synthetic intelligence.”
‘I Applied to 2,843 Roles’: The Rise of AI-Powered Job Application Bots
Jason Koebler | 404 Media
“Earlier than I put my laptop computer apart on the restaurant I’m working at, I open a terminal window, enter a single command, and hit enter. The server provides me my breakfast and I push my laptop computer away because the bot springs to life, opening a Chrome window and navigating to LinkedIn. It begins scrolling via job listings, and opens just a few of them.”
They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?
Kristen V. Brown | The Atlantic
“Lately, Hanna and different scientists have made outstanding progress in cultivating pluripotent stem cells to mimic the construction and performance of an actual, rising embryo. However as researchers resolve technical issues, they’re nonetheless left with ethical ones. When is a replica so good that it’s equal to the true factor? And extra to the purpose, when ought to the lab experiment be handled—legally and ethically—as human?”
Ian Brooke Wants to Revolutionize Flight as We Know It
Ross Pomeroy | Massive Assume
“The 34-year-old Brooke is CEO of Astro Mechanica, a Y Combinator-backed startup that has invented a brand new form of jet engine. It’s radically extra environment friendly and versatile than something that has come earlier than. …Astro Mechanica claims the Turboelectric Adaptive Engine will unlock huge effectivity features throughout an entire vary of speeds, however particularly at supersonic speeds between Mach 1.8 to Mach 3.4.”
The World’s First Commercial Space Station Looks Like a Luxury Hotel Inside
Carlton Reid | Wired
“Aluminum for spacecraft interiors is passé; what space-farers apparently need is wooden. That’s the guess from Huge, the makers of Haven-1, the world’s first industrial house station set to be positioned in low-Earth orbit by the SpaceX Falcon rocket subsequent yr. First paying prospects shall be getting on board in 2026, and judging by the ultimate designs simply launched of the station’s cozy inside, they’ll really feel proper at residence.”
The Kevin Kelly Interview: The Power of ‘Radical Optimism’
Eric Markowitz | Massive Assume
“Kelly—creator, thinker, and co-founder of Wired journal—insists that to really play the lengthy sport and rebuild society for the higher, we should embrace one easy but profound mindset: optimism. ‘Optimism,’ he has written, ‘allows us to succeed in good and nice issues past the aptitude of a single technology.’ He additionally believes that in enterprise, embracing optimism—and a long-term perspective—can result in compounding benefits.”
The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View
Rebecca Boyle | Quanta
“The galaxies had been by no means alleged to be so shiny. They had been by no means alleged to be so large. And but there they’re—oddly massive, luminous objects that preserve showing in pictures taken by the James Webb Area Telescope (JWST). Kevin Hainline(opens a brand new tab) is a part of a crew that makes use of the JWST to seek out these galaxies, whose brightness, obvious mass, and sheer existence a digital eyeblink after the Massive Bang are among the many largest surprises from the three-year-old mission.”
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The O.G. of Tech Startups Says AI Changes Everything
Julianne Pepitone | IEEE Spectrum
“Now [Steve] Clean, who teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford College, is considering how synthetic intelligence instruments are poised to remodel his lean startup technique—by supercharging the method of testing hypotheses, creating novel merchandise, and creating companies with a velocity that people might by no means match.”
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