It is easy to think of bad things happening right now, but what are the best ones? The list can be made very long, but here are my favorites.
Machines will use our language to talk to each other.
โ UK closes last coal power plant - end of a 142-year era. ๐คฐ Obesity in the US is decreasing. ๐ง They are developing a technology to restore sea ice in the Arctic. ๐ฆ Saiga antelope goes from endangered to thriving.
OpenAI's new model, o1, performs better than previous models on advanced scientific and mathematical tasks. o1 performed a calculation on black holes in about an hour, which previously took the researcher several months. It solved 83% of the tasks on a qualifying test for the Mathematics Olympiad.