What’s News For March 25th?
1. “My big bet on the future of AI: Verbal parity” — “While everyone is focused on the question of when will general artificial intelligence come to be, there’s another milestone that will probably come earlier- verbal parity.” https://philosophybear.substack.com/…/my-big-bet-on-the…
2. “Venture capitalists are betting this is just the beginning. Funding for AI in drug discovery has risen 3,800 per cent in the past five years to $2bn” https://www.ft.com/…/3e57ad6c-493d-4874-a663-0cb200d3cdb5 [archived: https://archive.ph/wuagu]
3. A Q&A with Jeffrey Dukes, a Purdue University ecologist, on the impact of global warming on agriculture and the best ways for societies to manage it. [Bloomberg] https://archive.is/GiwbI
4. Scientific Analysis Of Michael Phelps’s Body Structure: “Athletes often envy Phelps because it’s scientifically proven that his body produces half as much lactic acid as his rivals need to process, significantly shortening his recovery time.” https://www.scienceabc.com/…/michael-phelps-height-arms…
5. This New Rescue Robot Doggy AI Is Amazing! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-rKTOyD_k
6. What Tears Couples Apart: A Machine Learning Analysis of Union Dissolution in Germany https://read.dukeupress.edu/…/What-Tears-Couples-Apart…
7. Astrocyte GluN2C NMDA receptors control basal synaptic strengths of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in the stratum radiatum https://elifesciences.org/articles/70818
8. “Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.” https://bigthink.com/…/germany-nuclear-power-russia-putin/
9. How Putin spent millions spreading fake news about fracking https://www.rationaloptimist.com/…/putins-fake…/
10. The need for more rational radiation protection standards https://atomicinsights.com/the-need-for-more-rational…/
11. Ukraine has officially started using Clearview facial recognition technology. It’s identifying dead Russian soldiers, finding contacts for their family and friends and informing them of the death. [Forbes] https://archive.ph/WrFM7
