Lifeboat Foundation

The World Futures Day by The Millennium Project, in cooperation with the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, Lifeboat Foundation, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), will take place on March 1st for the 10th year!

The call for facilitators is now open: support the World Futures Day by picking a one hour time slot where you will help to facilitate the discussion — such as the slot at 12 noon in your local area. If you want to be part of the team, please use this form.

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In aging mouse livers, 40% of elongating RNA polymerases are stalled, biasing transcriptional output dependent on gene length. This transcriptional stress appears to be caused by endogenous DNA damage.

The project will be done in collaboration with Lockheed Martin and Nvidia.

The U.S. state agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), wants to transform how the weather is reported.

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With this new investment, OpenAI will look further to independently “develop and research AI that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful,” the press release added. OpenAI’s recently unveiled product, ChatGPT, has already made global news for its conversational style of answering people’s queries, which is being looked at as a threat to Google’s business model.

It is powerful enough to maneuver over obstacles.

The University of Illinois researchers’ newly developed insect-sized jumping robots will do tasks in small and tight places. The creation of jumping robots is also a significant advance in mechanical, agricultural, and search-and-rescue environments, according to the university.

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According to Chinese media sources, the world’s first urban hydrogen powered train has just rolled off the production line in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

According to Chinese media, the world’s first urban train powered by hydrogen has been produced via a joint venture between the CRRC Changchun Railway Company and Chengdu Rail Transit. While other hydrogen-powered trains exist, this is the first specifically developed for an urban environment.

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Sometimes, ChatGPT made “surprising” mistakes in school-level math.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s AI chatbot ChatGPT has been making headlines ever since it was released to the public on November 30. It can break down complex scientific concepts, compose poems, write stories, code, and create malware…the list is endless. OpenAI has also released a paid version of the chatbot. Known as ‘ChatGPT Professional’, it is available at $42 per month.

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How soon will that day arrive is the real question.

Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, has said that the company believes that the metaverse will become as essential as today’s smartphone, Business Insider.

Meta is the new avatar of Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook that is looking to build the next generation of the internet. In October 2021, Zuckerberg announced, with much fanfare, the company’s vision to build a new digital world where people will log in for work, communication, and entertainment.

“The crazy part? This will be a money printing machine for OpenAI,” says an expert.

The artificial intelligence research laboratory, OpenAI, has reportedly begun rolling out a premium version of its popular AI chatbot, “ChatGPT Professional.”

“That was quick! OpenAI has reportedly started rolling out a premium version of its viral ChatGPT,” he wrote.

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