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Closed-door talks over the World Bank’s climate agenda have stalled, as the US pushes to scrap green targets and expand support for fossil fuels

Climatologists say a particularly powerful weather pattern could amplify wildfire risk, heatwaves and flooding worldwide as global temperatures continue to rise

This paper analyses General Social Survey (United States) data and provides evidence that the advent of Facebook and other social media platforms has widened the gap in scepticism towards science between low-educated Americans and their more highly educated counterparts. The same trend holds true when considering distrust in medicine, the press and television. Overall, the results suggest that education may serve as a protective factor against the influence of fake news, disinformation and misinformation. Additionally, a heterogeneity analysis shows that the increase in distrust is particularly pronounced among young people. Further analyses reveal that political affiliation plays a role in shaping attitudes towards science and that the likelihood of voting for the Republican Party has increased among low-educated individuals. A comprehensive set of robustness and placebo tests supports the reliability of these findings.

Une équipe californienne a utilisé l’intelligence artificielle pour concevoir des génomes viraux avant qu’ils ne soient construits et testés en laboratoire. Ensuite, des bactéries ont été infectées avec succès par plusieurs de ces virus créés par l’IA, prouvant ainsi que les modèles génératifs peuvent créer des gènes fonctionnels. « La première conception générative de génomes complets. »

A California outfit has used artificial intelligence to design viral genomes before they were then built and tested in a laboratory. Following this, bacteria was then successfully infected with a number of these AI-created viruses, proving that generative models can create functional genetics. "The first generative design of complete genomes." That's what researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto called the results of these experiments. A biologist at NYU Langone Health, Jef Boeke, celebrated the experiment as a substantial step towards AI-designed lifeforms, according to MIT Technology Review. "They saw viruses with new genes, with truncated genes, and even different gene orders and arrangements," Boeke said.

Intuitivement, il semble que la diffusion massive d'images générées par IA couronne l'ère des "vérités alternatives". C'est le pari inverse qui est fait ici. Désormais, toutes les images seront par défaut équivoques. Et la vérité se cherchera par d'autres chemins, notamment le statut et la traçabilité des sources d'information. Un enjeu démocratique.

L'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies va demander l'avis de la Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ) sur les obligations des pays en matière de lutte contre le changement climatique, suite à l'adoption par consensus d'une résolution mercredi.

Les cadres ainsi que les métiers du juridique, de l’assistance et de l’administratif seront les plus touchés par l’arrivée de l’IA générative dans les entreprises

Mexico announced this Tuesday a set of measures to ban solar geoengineering experiments in the country, after a US startup began releasing sulfur particles into the atmosphere in the northern state of Baja California.

The accelerating thaw of Antarctica might drive sea levels up by more than five metres by 2300 unless governments act quickly to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a UN report said on Wednesday.