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What if you could add 10 healthy years to your life? | R.M. Schneiderman with Joe Betts-LaCroix Read the full story here: www.freethink.com/biotech/joe-... #Longevity
What can the Model T teach us about building better systems today? This excerpt from Brian Potter's new book "The Origins of Efficiency" explores the roots of modern productivity: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...
How Ford built "an efficiency engine" around the Model T
An excerpt from author and structural engineer Brian Potter's forthcoming book, "The Origins of Efficiency."
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Why can we locate a smartphone in seconds, but a jetliner can vanish into the ocean? Read the full essay: www.freethink.com/opinion/mari...
The Longevity Issue is live now! This special issue explores the science and philosophy of living longer with essays and interviews from experts like Eric Topol, B. David Zarley, and Josie Zayner. Some highlights: 🧵
A dramatization of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is remembered as history's most infamous radio broadcast. The problem is... the panic following the broadcast was largely manufactured by news outlets. #PessimistsArchive
Anti-gravity could cut decade-long space journeys down to days. But is it real science or the ultimate disinformation campaign? Read the full story by Andrew Cote: www.freethink.com/space/anti-g...
Can a chatbot’s words truly be treated like human speech — or are we rewriting the First Amendment on fear? #AI #MentalHealth Read the full article by Christopher Ferguson: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
What does it mean when technology, not evolution, sets the limits of the human body? #Biology #History Read the full article by Elle Griffin: www.freethink.com/biotech/huma...
“What is it that these gut symbionts are doing that can protect us?” #Biology Read the full article by Namir Khaliq: www.freethink.com/biotech/worm...
Can AI outperform scientists? "As AI becomes more adept ... human-led lab experiments are becoming increasingly unnecessary." Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/biotech/ai-b...
Now, the Sony Walkman is a cultural icon. But back then it was “a bit Black Mirror." Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...
Would making AI more human make it smarter? Read the full interview with @PhilosophyMinis and @birchlse: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
"AI isn’t going to kill the entertainment industry, but it will end the creative bottleneck." #Opinion #AI #Automation
What if AI virtual cells could help us decode disease, test medication, and rewrite biology? Read the latest edition of Future Explored here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i... #FutureExplored #AI #Biology
Opinion: The Golden Dome should be built — just not the way Trump imagines. "Skeptics once thought an Iron Dome was unnecessary. Waves of rockets and missiles proved them wrong." Read the full article from Gal Winter: www.freethink.com/the-changing...
What if the real danger isn't AI, it's the humans that control it? The 2004 movie, "I, Robot" poses a convincing allegory to embrace AI innovation. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
For decades, the assumption in discussions around technology is that we cannot stop it. We must simply adapt. But that assumption is wrong. Categorically wrong.
Mark Zuckerberg is stealing top AI engineers with $300 million pay packages. Here's why big tech is using the sports team playbook:
This neuroscientist is on a quest to cure comas. Read more: www.freethink.com/biotech/cure...
Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.
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There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets. All four big breakthroughs in LLMs happened because we unlocked a new source of data. What will be the next one? Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets
Our next AI breakthrough will come when we unlock a dataset we’ve either overlooked or never fully harnessed.
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Albert Einstein was wrong. Automation didn't cause the Great Depression. Here's how the same faulty logic is now fueling fears about AI. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
Albert Einstein said automation caused the Great Depression. It didn't.
Einstein blamed automation for the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression, but his reasoning was based on a false premise.
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Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke explains how AI tools like Copilot are changing what it means to be a programmer. @ashtom @kristinjhouser Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete?
Freethink talks to the creator of the world's most popular AI coding assistant to find out whether learning to code is still worthwhile.
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A call to innovators in Silicon Valley and beyond to help chart the new way forward. At a recent Freethink Conversation, Peter Leyden urges innovators to drive progress and help build a much better world. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
A call to innovators in Silicon Valley and beyond to help chart the new way forward
Peter Leyden sums up the key themes and big ideas of his new series at a Freethink Conversation in San Francisco.
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The AGI economy is coming faster than you think. Many traditional jobs will be replaced by AI, but economically valuable complements are already visible. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
The AGI economy is coming faster than you think
The impact of AGI on the economy will be big, it’ll happen fast, and it’ll be disruptive. Here's how the disruption could play out.
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The war on artificial ice. Before traditionalists attacked lab-grown meat, they attacked factory-made ice. www.freethink.com/the-material...
The war on artificial ice
Decades before states started banning lab-grown meat, manufactured ice was the "unnatural" alternative under attack.
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What if you could start civilization over with AI? To make the most of intelligent machines, we need to rebuild everything — including education — from scratch. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
What if you could start civilization over with AI?
Innovators in every industry and field should adopt the same mantra: If you could start fresh with AI, then what would you do?
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How consensus can undermine science What looks like unity is sometimes a strategy to silence disagreement. www.freethink.com/opinion/cons...
How consensus can undermine science
The main objective of consensus statements appears to be to reduce doubt, which may stifle scientific inquiry.
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We produced an event with Peter Leyden to facilitate optimistic and needed discussions about the future. Here's what happened: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
Three founders look to the future at Freethink’s inaugural Great Progression event
The tech community came together for the launch of the Great Progression event series, curated by Peter Leyden and produced by Freethink.
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