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.

By Rhiannon Williams

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