For People Who Read
The AI hype is not only real, it’s the end of the world as we know it in every kind of way you can imagine. Life in 20 years will be as unrecognizable to us today as life before electricity. People didn’t even invent toilet paper until 1857.
In my new book, Uncertainty, I explain how and why:
AI will cure aging, so people will live forever. CRISPR gene editing will allow us to change our height, weight, intelligence, ethnicity, eye color, and hair during our lifetimes.
AI will solve Zero Point Energy, which basically pulls free electrons out of the fabric of spacetime. Energy will be free from a device in your home about the size of a laundry machine.
AI robots will collapse the price of labor, reordering the world economy and current tax structures. Governments will finally tax capital more than labor.
AI will generate individualized Disney movies, television, and porn on demand. Anyone without a daily “content budget” will drift into Total Entertainment Forever.
So this week, I have a collection of news stories about AI for those of us who still read. If you don’t read, copy and paste any of these stories into your favorite AI chatbot with the phrase, “Explain this to me in 50 words: ”.
😷 Google AI Can Hear Disease in the Sound of Your Cough
😭 SunoAI Music Generator Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud
😬 A robot gets a face of living ‘skin’ that allows it to smile
💰 Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn
🇨🇳 Also see China’s version of these robot dogs with machine guns
🫣 Cracking the code of life: New AI model learns DNA's hidden language
🧬 New technique opens the door to large-scale DNA editing to cure diseases
💉 ‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools - Some of the AI-designed gene editors could be more versatile than those found in nature.
👂 Deaf Baby Girl Hears for First Time in 'Mind-Blowing' Gene Therapy Trial
🍩 Video: The Simpsons brought to life by AI
⚔️ AI Katana - One of the best deep fakes I have seen
🥽 AI characters try figure out who is the human in VR - this is a reverse Turing Test and it is absolutely fascinating to watch
📱 Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes - App usage is contagious and affects grades, duh
🤔 A Stunning New AI Has Supposedly Achieved Sentience
🤓 Elon Musk predicts AI will likely be smarter than 'all humans combined' by 2029
🦾 Global Robot Density in Factories Doubled in Seven Years
🦿 Video: $16,000 humanoid robot ready to leap into mass production
☀️ Scientists Achieve Groundbreaking Efficiency with Thin Roll-to-Roll Printed Solar Cells
