May we live in interesting times…
- People are creating records of fake historical events using AI.
- Artificial intelligence could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, new Goldman Sachs report says.
- Human cells hacked to act like squid skin cells could unlock key to camouflage.
- Gene hackers create meatball from resurrected mammoth meat.
- Shifting strategy, pychedelic advocacy organisation MAPS turns to equity investment.
- Extrasolar space dust could contain signs of alien life, new paper suggests.
- Professor Avi Loeb responds to the ‘molecular hydrogen theory’ explaining interstellar mystery object ‘Oumuamua.
- Also: Harvard professor teams up with military official to study possible alien ‘mothership’.
- Mysterious aurora-like phenomenon ‘STEVE’ appears during strongest solar storm for more than half a decade.
- The Filipino islanders who weave their dreams.
- Parent argues that if Utah is banning books from schools and libraries based on “pornographic or indecent” content, then they must remove the Bible as well given it contains sex scenes, incest and murder.
- Video of the Day: Everything is a remix. Artificial ‘creativity’ is unstoppable – grappling with its ethics is up to us.
Quote of the Day:
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
