The newsletter also discusses the potential economic revolution by ChatGPT, a generative AI model. While companies are eager to profit from it, the impact on workers and the economy is uncertain. It could either exacerbate income and wealth inequality or boost productivity. The newsletter ends with a section on comfort and fun, suggesting activities for happiness and self-understanding.
Key takeaways:
- Donald Trump's advisors and associates have indicated that dismantling Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a major climate change law, would be a priority if Trump wins the presidential election. This could stall the nation’s shift to cleaner industries and efforts to cut greenhouse-gas pollution.
- The era of cheap helium, which is essential to many technologies that use superconducting magnets, is over and this is already causing problems. The demand for helium might change in the future.
- Starlink, the satellite constellation developed by SpaceX, is changing the history of isolation in Antarctica by providing high-speed broadband internet.
- Selena Deckelmann, the chief product and technology officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, believes that despite the surge in AI-generated content, human contributors still matter in the age of AI.