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TED Vancouver 2024: The Brave and the Brilliant

This year’s TED conference, "The Brave and the Brilliant," brought together a remarkable mix of thinkers and doers in Vancouver.

AI has a large and growing carbon footprint, but there are potential solutions on the horizon

Given the huge problem-solving potential of artificial intelligence (AI), it wouldn’t be far-fetched to think that AI could also help us in tackling the climate crisis.

Shirin Dora, Computer Science Lecturer, Loughborough University

September 23, 2024

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Where are we going to wear digital fashion?

There are two camps of virtual fashion: the fantastical, physics-defying pieces that can only exist online, and the digital twins of real apparel that resemble items you expect to see in a shop. Which will emerge as the defining trend of digital fashion?

What extended reality tells us about the next chapter of the internet

Amidst rising sea levels, the island nation of Tuvalu is exploring digitising itself in the metaverse. Clovis McEvoy writes that it is one of many extended reality experiments that show how the future of the internet lies in connection and collaboration.

At home in the anti-cool — crypto and the next counterculture

Beneath the undercurrents of crypto culture lies a foundation of social and technological subversion. Above it is a countercultural movement that traces back to the punks and hippies of the 20th century.

AI like ChatGPT can transform education, but only if we listen to the children

As millions of people add artificial intelligence to their workflows, thousands of schools have banned the world’s most popular AI tools like ChatGPT. Activist Okezue Bell argues that we need to reimagine how education and EdTech work to make the most of artificial intelligence.

How Cherie Hu pioneered a new way to understand the world

Water & Music has established itself as the first port of call for anyone looking to understand the modern music industry. Founder and editor, Cherie Hu, talks to Clovis McEvoy about the benefits of decentralisation, their new focus on education, and the importance of bringing virtual communities into the physical world.

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Artificial intelligence has shot into the global discourse after increasingly fast progress in the field. That progress has come too fast, argue a group of AI researchers and business leaders led by Elon Musk, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steve Wozniak, creating the potential for an ever accelerating and ever riskier race to deploy advanced AI systems that society already does not fully understand.

Inside the blockchain fan groups transforming pro sports

Web3 presents an opportunity to reinvent how fans interact with their passions, not least in sport, where teams are finding new ways to bring fans into the action. David Harrington explores how teams from motorsports to sailing are finding new opportunities in web3.

David Harrington

January 19, 2023

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TED Vancouver 2024: The Brave and the Brilliant

AI has a large and growing carbon footprint, but there are potential solutions on the horizon

Where are we going to wear digital fashion?

What extended reality tells us about the next chapter of the internet

At home in the anti-cool — crypto and the next counterculture

AI like ChatGPT can transform education, but only if we listen to the children

How Cherie Hu pioneered a new way to understand the world

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Inside the blockchain fan groups transforming pro sports

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TED Vancouver 2024: The Brave and the Brilliant

AI has a large and growing carbon footprint, but there are potential solutions on the horizon

Where are we going to wear digital fashion?

What extended reality tells us about the next chapter of the internet

At home in the anti-cool — crypto and the next counterculture

AI like ChatGPT can transform education, but only if we listen to the children

How Cherie Hu pioneered a new way to understand the world

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Inside the blockchain fan groups transforming pro sports

“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers” — Alan Turing