Articles tagged with "AI Self-Improvement, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence"

The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

AI is advancing by learning to improve itself, with Meta aiming for smarter-than-human AI by focusing on self-improving systems. Meanwhile, a rise in methane emissions, particularly in the tropics, due to climate change is causing additional greenhouse gases. Efforts are underway to better track and understand these emissions. Additionally, other tech news includes new tariffs affecting the US economy, the deployment of drones in China to fight a mosquito-borne virus, and the potential for genetic factors in chronic fatigue syndrome.