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Scenario prompts 25 November 2024
Today’s prompts are change makers, the Fortune 50 AI innovators list, an AI replica of your personality, cyber security, esport hotels, citizen development, time crystals, AI and alien civilizations, plant intelligence and AI welfare.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
AI, aliens, plants, etc. Reconsider the definition of intelligence
Welcome to our third annual celebration of the innovators, thinkers &
changemakers working to make the future a better place
We’re witnessing unprecedented advances in artificial intelligence, breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology, and growing movements to address existential challenges from climate change to threatening new diseases to, yes, artificial intelligence.
AI enters a new phase, and the Fortune 50 AI Innovators list identifies the companies leading it
https://fortune.com/2024/11/20/fortune-50-ai-innovators-list-microsoft-openai-nvidia/
On Wednesday, Fortune released its second annual Fortune 50 AI Innovators list, highlighting the AI companies that are leading in this new phase of the technology’s adoption.
AI can now create a replica of your personality
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/20/1107100/ai-can-now-create-a-replica-of-your-personality/
A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind.
Trend MicroSecurity Predictions for 2025
In 2025, consumer data will be the hot commodity in the underground for 2025, with cybercrime expected to cost over $10 trillion.
Diehard Gamers Are Fueling Demand for Esports Hotels in China
With bunkbeds, 24/7 tech support and state-of-the-art consoles, China’s 21,000 esports hotels cater to gamers who prefer to play together.
The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution: How Every Employee Is Becoming A Technology Creator
Something remarkable is happening in organizations around the world. The traditional gatekeepers of technology – IT departments – are witnessing a revolution as employees across all departments harness AI and user-friendly tools to become technology creators themselves
Physicists Transformed a Quantum Computer Into a Time Crystal
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-transformed-a-quantum-computer-into-a-time-crystal
Physicists have transformed a quantum processor into a state of matter that seems to defy physics, a breakthrough that could be a step toward making quantum computing more practical.
Alien Civilizations May Have Already Formed a New Kind of AI-Based Consciousness, Scientists Say
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a62990282/post-biological-ai-aliens/
Assuming intelligent aliens have used AI for thousands or even millions of years, experts think it may have grown to proportions we can scarcely imagine on Earth.
Are plants intelligent? It seems to depend on how you define it
https://www.snexplores.org/article/plants-intelligent-communicate-learn
Plants communicate, learn, even remember — and that’s fueling a big debate in biology. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/beyond-human-intelligence/
Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/anthropic-hires-its-first-ai-welfare-researcher/
Anthropic quietly hired its first dedicated “AI welfare” researcher, Kyle Fish, to explore whether future AI models might deserve moral consideration and protection
