Niall Firth
Executive Editor, Newsroom at MIT Technology Review
Executive editor, newsroom @techreview. at @niallfirth on threads
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1 month ago |
techtelegraph.co.uk | Mat Honan |Niall Firth
Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, is ushering a new era of the internet. Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge. Hear from MIT Technology Review editor in chief Mat Honan and executive editor Niall Firth as they explore how AI will alter search. Related Coverage
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Dec 16, 2024 |
technologyreview.com | Niall Firth
OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, tells the NeurIPS conference that the way AI models will be trained will have to change. How to stop a state from sinkingApril 2024 In a 10-month span between 2020 and 2021, southwest Louisiana saw five climate-related disasters, including two destructive hurricanes. As if that wasn’t bad enough, more storms are coming, and many areas are not prepared.
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Dec 15, 2024 |
mailchi.mp | Niall Firth
Your daily dose of what’s up in emerging technologyBy Niall Firth • 12.16.24 Hello! Niall here, stepping in for Rhiannon to kick your week off. Today: A study that looks at the frightening carbon emissions that come from the use of AI. Plus: A look back on Google's big, big week. One more thing: we’re still running our biggest sale of the year—50% off the cost of an annual subscription.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
technologyreview.es | Niall Firth
Un ejército de personajes creados con IA fue dejado a su suerte. No solo lograron sobrevivir, sino que también crearon empleos, compartieron memes, votaron reformas fiscales e incluso propagaron una religión. El experimento tuvo lugar en Minecraft, donde hasta 1.000 agentes de software interactuaron de manera simultánea con grandes modelos de lenguaje (LLM).
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Nov 28, 2024 |
bitebi.com | Niall Firth
Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a religion. The experiment played out on the open-world gaming platform Minecraft, where up to 1000 software agents at a time used large language models (LLMs) to interact with one another.
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Terrific piece on *how* we know that vaccines don’t cause autism. https://t.co/XqLk4R1r4J
RT @Techmeme: How Altera deployed up to 1,000 AI agents that used LLMs to interact in Minecraft, finding that they formed a remarkable rang…