SEARCH

Did you mean: model

Showing 1-10 of 10 results

  • OPINION

    The molecular line between life and death

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/03/2023

    » 'We are but one very small company [among] many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design. How many of them have ... the know-how to find the pockets of chemical space that can be filled with molecules predicted to be orders of magnitude more toxic than VX?" This is a warning that requires a little explanation.

  • OPINION

    In Iran, all options to curb crisis are bad

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/10/2022

    » 'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

  • OPINION

    2024: the year it got (really) hot

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/01/2024

    » The year 2023 has probably been the hottest in the past 10,000 years -- but everybody agrees that 2024 will be even hotter. That's because we are now entering El Niño, the part of a seven-yearly oceanic cycle that heaps extra heat on whatever is already occurring.

  • OPINION

    Artificial intelligence for dummies

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/11/2023

    » I'm sorry that I didn't get my article on artificial intelligence in last week during the "AI Safety Summit" at Bletchley Park, the historic Second World War decoding centre in England. I got distracted by some other stuff that was happening in the Middle East.

  • OPINION

    AI is not going to wipe humans out just yet

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2023

    » I'm looking at a headline this morning that screams "AI Creators Fear the Extinction of Humanity", and I suppose they could turn out to be right. But it's still a bit early to declare a global emergency and turn all the machines off.

  • OPINION

    Turkey and its hundred-year culture war

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/05/2023

    » Turkey's elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if Donald Trump had been in power for 20 years, and that's what Turkey looks like today.

  • OPINION

    Freddy and the Ice: Messages From the Future

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/03/2023

    » Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Typhoons used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they're starting to come back for a second hit.

  • OPINION

    Will we soon have unlimited clean energy?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/12/2022

    » Nuclear fusion, the "holy grail" that would finally end all the world's energy problems, has been receding into the future at the rate of about one year per year all my adult life -- it was always "about 30 years away" -- but suddenly we're catching up. Unfortunately, the change of pace comes too late to save us from an acute global climate emergency.

  • OPINION

    Killer 'Wave-7' heat getting far more common

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/07/2021

    » First the "heat dome", with temperatures in the mid-to-high forties Celsius in many parts of western North America for up to a week (49.6°C in Lytton, British Columbia). Then, when the forests were tinder-dry, came the wildfires (which wiped Lytton out). From northern California to northern British Columbia, the records were being broken every day.

  • OPINION

    Playing football won't turn boys into manly men

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/02/2021

    » It seemed innocent enough at the start: just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were excused from playing contact sports. But pretty soon high schools all over China were having trouble finding enough willing young men to make up a football team.

Your recent history

  • Recently searched

    • Recently viewed links

      Did you find what you were looking for? Have you got some comments for us?