Big Tech’s fireproof houses and AI technology
With each devastating wildfire in the Western United States, officials look at new methods or regulations that could save homes or lives the next time around.
In parts of California, where hillsides accommodate human growth and where the state suffers from recurring seasonal fire disasters, finding new means of survival is especially important. .
Many of these methods are low-cost and low-tech, but no less truly innovative. In fact, the hardest part may not be materials engineering, but social change. Read full story.
—Susie Cagle
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Innovative AI threatens to centralize Big Tech’s power. Here’s how to stop it
If regulators don’t act now, artificial intelligence will focus Big Tech’s power even further. That is the central argument of a new report from AI Now research institute. To understand why, consider that the current AI boom depends on two things: large amounts of data and enough computing power to process that data.
Right now, Big Tech has AI under control and business is booming. But what differentiates this tech boom from the ones before it is that we have a better understanding of all the dire ways AI can get into. And regulators everywhere are taking notice. Read full story.