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🐼 Giant pandas have doubled. 🦾 Oslo buys ChatGPT for 110,000 students and teachers. 📉 EU's fossil CO2 emissions reach lowest level in 60 years. 🌱 We are close to creating the first artificial plant genome.
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I felt that teacher pride when all the course participants created really great GPTs, custom versions of ChatGPT, during the AI course I held together with SN7.
Even more so when I heard afterwards that several of them are now using them regularly and even sharing them with colleagues.
Afterwards, the kind Erik Erlandsson wrote this, offering to discuss the course with people considering taking it:
"A day to remember, one of those that not just nudges lightly but actually pushes life into a new phase."
Encouraged by this, we're doing it again, both in Stockholm and Uppsala:
- Uppsala March 5 (together with Idealstad)
- Stockholm April 12 (together with SN7)
Both will be in Swedish (I know a lot of the newsletter subscribers are from Sweden)
I can also come directly to companies or organizations for training.
💖 For the love of AI 💖
Early in the morning on Valentine's Day, Cecilia Hjertzell from T.Loop welcomed us to The Park.
Mathias Strand talked about the tsunami of data and AI regulations coming from the EU. I talked about the tsunami of creativity that comes from generative AI.
And then the day's host, T.Loop, gave away our book, The Centaur's Edge, to all 50 in the audience. (Btw, the first edition is completely sold out now, a new edition is on the way – AND the English version is arriving soon.)
But the audience performed the best. They came up with a whole slew of suggestions for the AI Commission. Thank you! 💙
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🦾 Boosting AI usage - report from the first meeting of the AI Commission
What should we focus on to take the lead in the AI era? That's what we discussed at the meeting with the AI Commission. My focus is to quickly increase usage. That was the success of the 90s with the internet and will be the same with AI. And I have an idea of how.
🤖 Say hello! Now she is a GPT – the development of WALL-Y – part 3
Now Warp News' news writer, WALL-Y, is available as a GPT. You can chat with her about fact-based optimism, discuss articles she has written, and hear whether she thinks the glass is half full or half empty.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🦾 Oslo buys ChatGPT for 110,000 students and teachers
The introduction of ChatGPT in schools can be compared to the introduction of the textbook, says Trond Ingebretsen, division director in the Education Agency.
🐦 The Guam kingfisher may soon be free in the wild after a 30-year absence
Almost 140 Guam kingfishers live today in 25 facilities worldwide. But the plan is for them to soon also exist freely in the wild.
🌱 We are close to creating the first artificial plant genome
Scientists have created a partially synthetic version of moss for industrial use. This could lead to new methods for producing medicines and other products.
🐼 Giant pandas in the wild have almost doubled
There are now about 1,900 giant pandas in the wild, compared to about 1,100 in the 1980s. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has changed the giant panda's status from "endangered" to "vulnerable".
🎉 Warp News and WALL-Y nominated as Innovation of the Year
At the Newspaper Publishers' gala for Newspaper of the Year, Warp News and the AI bot, WALL-Y, are one of three nominees in the category Innovation of the Year.
📉 EU's fossil CO2 emissions reach lowest level in 60 years
EU countries reduced their carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels by 8 percent in 2023 compared to 2022. More than half of the reduction in emissions came from the use of cleaner electricity.
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