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They’ll be kind, supportive, empathetic.

DeepMind cofounder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman took the stage at TED2024 last week to lay out his vision for an AI-driven future. And according to the AI boss, if you really want to grasp how impactful AI might be to the human species, it might be useful to think of AI as another “species” entirely.

“I think AI should best be understood as something like a new digital species,” Suleyman — who left the Google-owned DeepMind lab in 2022 — told the crowd.

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What is the philosophy of information.

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An archaeologists has been able to find forgotten structures hidden in Ireland that were probably used as pathways for the dead.

Physicist Sean Carroll on entropy, complexity, and the origins of life:

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What’s the rarest celestial event you have ever seen? With a total solar eclipse in very recent history for the U.S, is possible that you have already had a once in a lifetime experience where you live. However, the night sky has some spectacular sites, some of which will never happen again in your lifetime, but some that will—and some of them soon.

Here are some of the rarest events you can expect to see in the next four decades.

Renewables account for 56 per cent of Germany electricity use in first quarter of 2024.

A groundbreaking study, led by Dr. Mark Wong of The University of Western Australia, has provided the first global picture of insect activity patterns across the fundamental day–night cycle.

“Through our extensive research, we’ve finally been able to provide a definitive answer to the age-old question of whether there are more insects out at night than during the day,” said Dr. Wong. “Our global analysis not only shows that insect activity rises by a third (31.4%) during the night on average, but crucially reveals key ecological factors driving patterns in insect activity across the Earth.”

The activity patterns of insects across the day–night cycle are a surprisingly understudied area in ecology, as such patterns cannot be detected by common methods used for sampling insects. For example, sweep netting captures inactive insects, while light traps do not work as well during the day as they do during the night.

Meta presents AdvPrompter Fast Adaptive Adversarial Prompting for LLMs.

Meta presents AdvPrompter.

Fast Adaptive Adversarial Prompting for LLMs https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.

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Collective intelligence across all types and substrates.

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