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The last time a person visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA’s Apollo 17 mission. Astronauts say the reasons are budgetary and political, not scientific or technical. A US lander recently landed on the moon, and NASA could take people there by 2026 at the earliest. Landing 12 people…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman advises students to learn AI to stay relevant in the job market.Altman’s advice contrasts with Vinod Khosla’s warning that AI could replace many jobs.An Indeed study found that 2,800 work skills are “very unlikely” to be replaced by generative AI. There’s been a lot of buzz…
The line separating human intelligence from artificial intelligence just got more narrow.OpenAI on Thursday revealed o1, the first in a new series of AI models that are “designed to spend more time thinking before they respond,” the company said in a blog post.The new model can work through complex tasks…
Elon Musk says his Neuralink brain implants will be the best way for humans to both integrate and compete with advanced AI systems in the future.Neuralink is Musk’s venture into futuristic brain-implanted microchips. The company is developing the microchips to record and simulate brain activity. Musk hopes the technology in…
Experts predict that one-third of Earth’s plants and animals — millions of species — could disappear by 2050 if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions persists. And some are already disappearing.But other animals are more resilient to temperature changes and habitat disruption. There are a few species that could…
Abigail Adams, wife of the second US president, was born in 1744. It’s entirely possible that there are Greenland sharks still living today that were swimming in the North Atlantic Ocean at the time.There’s no doubt that these large, carnivorous sharks can live hundreds of years. In 2016, researchers discovered…
NASA has invested $725,000 in a new rocket system that could solve one of the major obstacles standing in our way of sending humans to Mars: travel time.With current technology, a round-trip to the red planet would take almost two years. For astronauts, spending that much time in spaceflight comes…
By Leah Douglas and P.J. Huffstutter (Reuters) – States in the U.S. are playing a key role in the nation’s response to a growing outbreak of avian flu among dairy cattle that has also infected a small number of humans. The states are chiefly responsible for testing cows and people…
The portal between New York City and Dublin — a giant video installation livestreaming between the two locations — has been shut down due to bad behavior.This is terrible. The portal should reopen! In fact, we should have portals all over the country, all over the world — connecting two…
It’s too soon to say what major departures at OpenAI mean for the company, or if Sam Altman plans to replace the people in these roles with new staffers. But this isn’t a great day for AI doomsayers.OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist, said on X on Tuesday…
