Regular readers will either appreciate or hate that for roughly 20 months I’ve been decorating my articles and presentations with images generated by artificial intelligence algorithms. I’m not going to address the full range of reasons, but will just do some basic math on the electricity use to get a … [continued]
Think of the Kia EV3 as a grown-up, electrified version of the hugely popular Kia Soul. It’s cute, in a chunky sort of way, with room for 5 and lots of stuff. There is a distinct family resemblance to its big brother, the Kia EV9 three-row SUV, but at only … [continued]
This is not clearly or directly cleantech, but it’s a tech matter that touches everything and will surely touch cleantech as well. Also, while cleantech is a core solution to a major global problem, there are other major global problems and potential major global problems to deal with. In the … [continued]
ChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.
If AIs can win at Jeopardy! and beat human champions at popular video games, how hard can it be for them to learn to drive?
This article is for all the CleanTechnica readers that are sick of news about Tesla’s stock price. It is a followup to the article “Musk Didn’t Inhale, and He is a Stable Genius,” which briefly summarized Elon Musk’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. In the previous article, I stated the long interview would be edited into shorter videos which would echo through the internet and social media for years to come.
We would expect Elon Musk to be a champion of artificial intelligence. After all, it is the cornerstone of the autonomous driving system known as Autopilot that is featured in Tesla automobiles. But he has been warning about the potential dangers of AI since 2014, when he called it the “biggest existential threat” to humanity ever known. How can someone be a champion of new technology he finds so potentially dangerous? Easy — Musk is not constrained by conventional thinking. His ability to see not only both sides of a coin but also the edge and what’s inside is legendary.
A few lucky souls can decamp to new colonies on Mars to escape the ravages of climate change, but that won’t help the billions left behind. And what’s to say our species won’t pollute neighboring planets the way it did the earth? Maybe what is needed is more collaboration and more innovation.
