The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases
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Summary
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wants to create smarter-than-human AI and is prepared to spend big to make it happen, reports James Temple for MIT Technology Review.
Nine-figure offers have been made to lure top researchers to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, with the company also intending to focus on building AI that improves itself.
Temple’s article details five ways in which AI is already advancing, offering examples such as the increase in methane emissions across wetter and warmer tropics offering a clear case where climate change is driving additional greenhouse-gas emissions.
The article also notes that major endeavour is now underway to better track and understand the situation.