🔮 Dall-E; unlocking science; China & India peak emissions; panda thumbs++ #385
Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.
👋 To level up on my thesis quickly, pick up my book, Exponential. It is now available in paperback.
Dept of the near future
🖼️ Looming over
Only $15 in Dall-E credits generated a pretty impressive image of a llama dunking. Joy Zhang explains how.
Now, I haven’t commissioned an image in a long time, but based on the cost of simple photography, $15 seems like a pretty good deal. We have here a power tool, perhaps like a mechanized loom, albeit for images of less tangible value than cloth. (Text-to-video may be next.)
🔬 Focus your research
Against the backdrop of breakthrough science becoming harder to achieve and the pandering of commercial research towards narrow commercial aims, could ‘focused research organisations” unlock research bottlenecks? (Groups like Wellcome Leap, whose CEO Regina Dugan I s…