🔮 AI & creativity; exponential compute; peak GHGs, recycling concrete & marriage saves lives ++ #476

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore AI’s capacity for divergent thinking and how this can help the scientific process. 

And in the rest of today’s issue:

1. Need to know: Modest gains

   Daron Acemoglu’s latest research looks at the next decade of AI’s macroeconomic impact.

2. Today in data: Peak emissions

   BloombergNEF estimates that GHG emissions this year could fall by 2.5%.

3. Opinion: The next five years of AI

   I spoke on this topic at the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit. Watch here