NASA and ESA are preparing a “digital twin” of Earth
As extreme weather events become more frequent around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our increasingly warm planet grows. Climate research involves not only studying these events but also enabling external researchers to do the same. Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) represent a powerful tool for achieving these goals.
New developments in synthetic cells and artificial intelligence
Cells are the fundamental units of life, comprising the diversity of all living things on Earth, both individual cells and multicellular organisms. To better understand how cells perform life’s most important functions, scientists have begun developing synthetic cells—non-living fragments of cellular biochemistry enclosed in a membrane that mimics specific biological processes.
Ethical issues of artificial intelligence
According to a new analysis of thousands of expert opinions, the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—an AI system with superhuman intelligence capable of successfully solving a variety of problems—is a matter of when, not if. The development of AGI has been spurred by the rapid advancement of large-scale language models (LLMs) based on Transformers. This technology underlies chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Dall-E. Before these advances, some scientists in 2019 predicted that AGI would emerge by 2060, and perhaps never.