{"id":5478,"date":"2023-11-05T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2023-11-05T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:36:55","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-november-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>GOVERNANCE<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2023\/10\/biden-white-house-ai-executive-order\/675837\/\"><strong>The White House Is Preparing for an AI-Dominated Future<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Karen Hao and Matteo Wong | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201cA yr in the past, few folks may have imagined how chatbots and picture mills would change the essential approach we take into consideration the web\u2019s results on elections, training, labor, or work; solely months in the past, the deployment of AI in search engines like google appeared like a fever dream. All of that, and rather more within the nascent AI revolution, has begun in earnest. The manager order\u2019s inside battle over, and openness to, completely different values and approaches to AI might have been inevitable, then\u2014the results of an try and chart a path for a expertise when no one has a dependable map of the place it\u2019s going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/everything-we-know-about-humane-ai-pin-openai-1850977325\"><strong>Everything We Know About Humane\u2019s Bewildering New AI Pin<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Lucas Ropek | Gizmodo<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe corporate, which has obtained a wholesome dose of monetary assist from distinguished corporations like OpenAI and Microsoft, has been hyping its new system for months now, promising that it&#8217;s going to revolutionize our relationship with computing ceaselessly. The system is lastly scheduled to drop subsequent week on November ninth. However what&#8217;s it?<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf kgVYDs\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-event-boundary=\"click\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;PullquoteEmbed&quot;}\" data-in-view=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;PullquoteEmbed&quot;}\" data-include-experiments=\"true\"\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/31\/health\/sickle-cell-fda-cure-crispr.html\"><strong>Panel Says That Innovative Sickle Cell Cure Is Safe Enough for Patients<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Gina Kolata | The New York Occasions<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span>The panel\u2019s conclusion on Tuesday about exa-cel\u2019s security sends it to the FDA for a choice on greenlighting it for broad affected person use. Exa-cel frees sufferers from the debilitating and painful results of this continual, lethal illness. If authorized, the Vertex product could be the primary drugs to deal with a genetic illness with the CRISPR gene-editing method.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>ETHICS<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/02\/technology\/sam-bankman-fried-rise-crash.html\"><strong>Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s Wild Rise and Abrupt Crash<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>David Streitfeld | The New York Occasions<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span>Six years in the past, Sam Bankman-Fried knew little about different currencies. However he appropriately guess there have been big alternatives in grabbing a tiny piece of thousands and thousands of crypto trades. Within the blink of an eye fixed, he was lauded as being value $23 billion. Solely Mark Zuckerberg had gathered a lot wealth so younger. The Fb co-founder has his critics, however he appears to be like like Thomas Edison subsequent to Mr. Bankman-Fried. After a speedy trial in Manhattan federal courtroom, the onetime crypto king, now 31, was convicted on Thursday of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy involving his corporations FTX and Alameda Analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/forget-chatgpt-why-llama-and-open-source-ai-win-2023\/\"><strong>Forget ChatGPT, Why Llama and Open Source AI Win 2023<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Sharon Goldman | VentureBeat<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn accordance with Meta, the open supply AI neighborhood has fine-tuned and launched over 7,000 Llama derivatives on the Hugging Face platform for the reason that mannequin\u2019s launch, together with a veritable animal farm of common offspring together with Koala, Vicuna, Alpaca, Dolly and RedPajama. \u2026You could possibly contemplate ChatGPT the equal of Barbie, 2023\u2019s greatest blockbuster film. However Llama and its open supply AI cohort are extra just like the Marvel Universe, with its infinite spinoffs and offshoots which have the cumulative energy to supply the most important long-term influence on the AI panorama.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>IMPACT<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/11\/01\/1081939\/big-questions-problem-solving-bill-gates-jennifer-doudna-lina-khan\/\"><strong>What Are the Hardest Problems in Tech We Should Be More Focused on as a Society?<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Editorial Workers | MIT Expertise Overview<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cExpertise is all about fixing large thorny issues. But one of many hardest issues about fixing onerous issues is realizing the place to focus our efforts. There are such a lot of pressing points going through the world. The place ought to we even start? So we requested dozens of individuals to establish what downside on the intersection of expertise and society that they suppose we must always focus extra of our power on. We queried scientists, journalists, politicians, entrepreneurs, activists, and CEOs.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2023\/11\/almost-unbeatable-ai-is-now-a-permanent-feature-of-gran-turismo-7\/\"><strong>Almost-Unbeatable AI Is Now a Permanent Feature of <em>Gran Turismo 7<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Jonathan M. Gitlin | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span>The leisure firm experimented with [the AI] earlier this yr for just a few weeks in a restricted check, however when the <em>GT7 Spec II<\/em> replace rolls out to consoles tomorrow morning, Sophy will be capable of race 340 of the sport\u2019s automobiles on 9 of its tracks. Ideally, you need the AI in a racing recreation to be adequate that the race is a problem, however maybe not fairly so unbeatable that it\u2019s a idiot\u2019s errand to attempt to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-ultra-efficient-farm-of-the-future-is-in-the-sky\/\"><strong>The Ultra-Efficient Farm of the Future Is in the Sky<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Matt Simon | Wired<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat is no strange inexperienced roof, however a sprawling, sensor-laden out of doors laboratory overseen by horticulturalist Jennifer Bousselot.\u00a0The concept behind rooftop agrivoltaics is to\u00a0emulate a forest on prime of a constructing. Simply because the shade of towering bushes protects the undergrowth from sun-stress, so can also photo voltaic panels encourage the expansion of vegetation\u2014the general purpose being to develop extra meals for ballooning city populations, all whereas saving water, producing clear power,\u00a0<em>and<\/em> making buildings extra power environment friendly.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/11\/remains-of-planet-that-formed-the-moon-may-be-hiding-near-earths-core\/\"><strong>Remains of Planet That Formed the Moon May Be Hiding Near Earth\u2019s Core<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>John Timmer | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span>Deep within the Earth\u2019s mantle there are two areas the place seismic waves decelerate, termed massive low-velocity provinces. \u2026Now, a staff of scientists has tied the 2 areas\u2019 existence again to a catastrophic occasion that occurred early in our Photo voltaic System\u2019s historical past: an enormous collision with a Mars-sized planet that finally created our Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"post-meta\"\/>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@pawel_czerwinski?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Pawel Czerwinski<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/white-and-blue-smoke-illustration-vI5XwPbGvmY?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@dynamicwang?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\"\/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2023\/11\/04\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-november-4\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOVERNANCE The White House Is Preparing for an AI-Dominated FutureKaren Hao and Matteo Wong | The Atlantic\u201cA yr in the past, few folks may have imagined how chatbots and picture mills would change the essential approach we take into consideration the web\u2019s results on elections, training, labor, or work; solely months in the past, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,5744,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-november","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}