the wired world in 2025

26 Nov

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech

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Next year will be Big Tech’s finale. Critique of Big Tech is now common sense, voiced by a motley spectrum that unites opposing political parties, mainstream pundits, and even tech titans such as the VC powerhouse Y Combinator, which is singing in harmony with giants like a16z in proclaiming fealty to “little tech” against the centralized power of incumbents.Why the fall from grace? One reason is that the collateral consequences of the current Big Tech business model are too obvious to ignore. The list is old hat by now: centralization, surveillance, information control. It goes on, and it’s not hypothetical.…

26 Nov

How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter

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In 2025, entrepreneurs will unleash a flood of AI-powered apps. Finally, generative AI will deliver on the hype with a new crop of affordable consumer and business apps. This is not the consensus view today. OpenAI, Google, and xAI are locked in an arms race to train the most powerful large language model (LLM) in pursuit of artificial general intelligence, known as AGI, and their gladiatorial battle dominates the mindshare and revenue share of the fledgling Gen AI ecosystem.For example, Elon Musk raised $6 billion to launch the newcomer xAI and bought 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the costly chips used…

26 Nov

Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational

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In 2025, we will see AI and machine learning begin to amplify the impact of Crispr genome editing in medicine, agriculture, climate change, and the basic research that underpins these fields. It’s worth saying upfront that the field of AI is awash with big promises like this. With any major new technological advance there is always a hype cycle, and we are in one now. In many cases, the benefits of AI lie some years in the future, but in genomics and life science research we are seeing real impacts right now.In my field, Crispr gene editing and genomics more…

26 Nov

Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’

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Engagement and profits on social platforms are built on fomenting dissatisfaction and disinformation—but there’s a better alternative. Source link lol

26 Nov

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad

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Beyond the deepfakes and disinformation, the potential for AI to make politics more accessible and equitable cannot be ignored. Source link lol

26 Nov

We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence

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There’s a growing trend of people and organizations rejecting the unsolicited imposition of AI in their lives. In December 2023, the The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In March 2024, three authors filed a class action in California against Nvidia for allegedly training its AI platform NeMo on their copyrighted work. Two months later, the A-list actress Scarlett Johansson sent a legal letter to OpenAI when she realized its new ChatGPT voice was “eerily similar” to hers.The technology isn’t the problem here. The power dynamic is. People understand that this technology is being built on…