Gleðilegt ár - Allt stefnir í að febrúar verði mánuður Framtíða, og því gefum við honum þema nafnið Framtíðir í febrúar. Í byrjun mánaðar, eða 2 febrúar er UTmessan í Hörpu https://utmessan.is/radstefnudagskra/fyrirlesarar.html Einn af aðalfyrirlesrum þar er José Cordeiro, frá Millennium Project. Fyrirlestur hans nefnist: The Future of the Future: Transhumanism, immortality and the Technological Singularity. Síðan verða viðburðir 3 febrúar í Hörpu sem verða kynntir síðar.
Dagana 21 til 23 febrúar verður alþjóðleg ráðstefna á sviði framtíðarfræða um áskoranir sem beinast að þróun lýðræðis í heiminum. https://framtidarsetur.is/futures-of-democracy-reykjavik-2024/
Endilega takið dagana frá og skráið ykkur á áhugaverða ráðstefnu. Nánar síðar.
Síðan er hér samantekt á nokkrum áhugverðum alþjóðaviðburðum frá seinasta ári :) Framtíðin er björt.
2023 Year in Review
ChatGPT wakes up the world to future AI impacts on education, work, culture.
- Turkey/Syria Earthquake kills 50,000, triggers building codes new enforcement
- Russian invasion of Ukraine continues
- Europe survived winter with new energy sources
- Deepfakes, disinformation proliferates, no rules for information warfare.
- UN Treaty to protect 30% of the oceans’ biodiversity by 2030 open for signature
- Every neural connection mapped in a larval fruit fly.
- International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrant for Vladmir Putin.
- Former President Trump is indited 4 times with total of 91 charges.
10. First X-ray image of a single atom.
11. First space solar power transmission from orbit to earth by Caltech.
12. Pure chicken meat from genetic material without chickens USDA approved
13. UN Security Council explores the security implications of artificial intelligence
14. China creates first national laws to regulate generative AI
15. July-October were the hottest months in recorded history
16. Massive demonstrations in Israel over reducing the supreme court’s power
17. Hamas invades Israel, global condemnation of Israel for devastating response.
18. China passes the US in number of scientific articles in the Nature Index.
19. India passes China as the most populous nation
20. Building blocks of life (methenium, CH3+ (and/or carbon cation, C+) detected in interstellar space.
21. FDA approval for testing brain chips implants in humans by Neuralink
22. World Summit II on Parliamentary Committees for the Future held in Uruguay.
23. India lands on near moon’s south poll, while Russia crashed a few days before.
24. Human brain activity translated into continuous stream of text.
25. Organized crime received $2.2 trillion from cybercrimes, while it cost business and individuals $8 trillion in 2023.
26. European Court of Human Rights to hear global warming case against 33 governments (first serious example of intergenerational law).
27. US and China, plus 27 other countries sign Bletchley Declaration on international cooperation to develop safe AI
28. Alzheimer’s disease onset decreased by 35% by Donanemab drug.
29. Mico- and nanoplastics pass the blood-brain barrier in mice.
30. Electronics grown inside living tissue furthers new field of bioelectronics.
31. The global average temperature temporarily exceeds 2°C above the pre-industrial average November 17th for the first time in recorded history.
32. COP28 in Dubai and COP29 in Baku announced, both oil-dependent economies
33. Google claims Gemini has advanced reasoning beyond GPT-4
34. Presidents Xi and Biden agree to joint US-China AI safety working group
