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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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This general type of problem, in which an AI system is inflexible and unable to adapt to even small unexpected changes in its input data, is referred to, among researchers, as "brittleness." In a January 2020 interview with the BBC, Yoshua Bengio said that "AI's abilities were somewhat overhyped.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 BBC: 15 December 2009. [ BBC, 10 December 2009. [ by Jack Rosebro. Global 2ºC maximal warming limit as compared to past and. Source: WGBU.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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This is sometimes referred to as “getting the flywheel going”—that is, operating on a large enough scale for the benefits to consumers from network effects to kick in. Facebook’s Libra proposal flopped. How might another private digital currency succeed where Libra did not? It is important to attract a large block of customers quickly.