Curated Commons // Edition 165
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Can’t do enough, can’t do fast
New report says ice sheets are melting quicker than expected. - Read here
The report says if global average temperatures settle at 2 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial baseline, the planet could be committed to more than 40 feet of sea-level rise — a melt that would take centuries and reshape societies across the globe.
CRISPR in healthcare
The UK just approved a first treatment derived from the gene-editing method, CRISPR. Initially for use with people affected by sickle-cell disease and beta thalassemia. As always, in the US it is estimated to cost millions of dollars per patient. - Read here ($)
And in more promising CRISPR news, gene editing is shown to permanently lower high cholestrol! - Read here
The open-now-closed-now story of OpenAI
Only ChatGPT could have hallucinated the goings-on at OpenAI. Ben Evans has a good read in the FT. - Read here ($)
Irrespective of everything else, Sam Altman has a great future as a leadership coach! The new benchmark for being an effective leader. Will your team back you up this way if push comes to shove? - Read here
What is AI?
The US FTC has a new guidance on AI-related products & services. It has a definition that’s quite…broad? - Read here
AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.
Will Gen AI eat coding?
Satya Nadella thinks otherwise, but reading some of the points, you can’t blame if some people come back with the exact opposite conclusion to what he does! - Read here
Scannable Spotify playlists on your skin
Many years ago, I distinctly recall reading about a small group in Sweden that embedded RFID chips under the skin (“Cyborgs”). Apparently, it’s now vogue to have Spotify barcodes on your skin! - Read here ($)
Data-voids, and exploiting them
This is a good thread on Twitter/X on data-voids, searching for obscure hashtags/keywords, and exploiting them. Something at the core of yet another lawsuit that Musk is involved in with Musketeers cheering on! - Read here
When lawyers meet Generative AI
The fastest way to ensure that AI that takes over the world is tamed is to involve copyright lawyers. Suddenly, the algorithm is more in control. Disney would agree! - Read here ($)
From edtech startup to a hacking-for-hire global espionage company from India
Good Reuter’s deep-dive into the history and the impact of an infamous India-based hacking-for-hire firm. Such firms, along with the industrialized scam call centers, are a blot! - Read here
Meet the people behind the malware that broke the Internet
Wired is out with one of its big cover stories - the story of the 3 young hackers behind the Mirai malware. Big, long piece - Read here ($)
Would marriages be happier if your spouse’s startup fails?
This is a raw look at what it takes to build a startup, and maybe, maybe, succeed. - Read here
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