The World as You'll Know It
Newsletter / Issue No. 33
AI Is Reshaping Education. How Should Education Respond?
Perhaps no sector has been more disrupted than education by the arrival of ChatGPT and its ability to do students’ work. Now, two years in, schools are beginning to wrestle with the long-term implications of AI in the classroom, with all its attendant promise and risk.
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Behavioral science is reducing carbon emissions, one hospital meal at a time. AI is learning to negotiate peace deals. A dramatic rethink of Parkinson’s disease offers new hope for treatment. And get ready for lab-grown chocolate!
Technology / Feature
A $10-Billion Plan to Sell Africa's Wind and Sun to Countries 7,000 Miles Away
A deep look at how green hydrogen could capitalize on remote areas of renewable resources and redraw the world's energy map.
Artificial Intelligence / Feature
One Company's Decision to Put AI Into the Ground
What does it mean to adopt AI? For John Deere it meant hundreds of millions of dollars, a new corporate culture and forever changing the relationship between a farmer and the land.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about Clean Energy Tech
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about Clean Energy Tech
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Timeline
13 Milestones in the History of Robots
People have been making machines that replicate human abilities for centuries. These are the breakthroughs that got robots to where they are today. Photo: NMAH
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Robots' final frontier? Taking care of us.
To understand how far robots are from replacing humans, just look at the everyday task of using a fork.
By Clive Thompson