
Senior leader | Professor | Consultant. Started in Silicon Valley @HP. Passionate about innovation, sustainability, marketing, technology, social impact, film.
New York, NY
Joined March 2009
- Tweets323
- Following136
- Followers115
- Likes559
Pinned Tweet
We are now in the endgame: 1-foot sea level rise by 2050. Our actions NOW determine if we have 2 feet or 7 feet sea-level rise by 2100! cnn.it/3HVIt5Y #MitigateClimateChange #climatechange #sustainability #ParisAccord #globalwarming #ActNow
Raphael Carty retweeted
.@ENERGY research has found that installing geothermal heat pumps in nearly 80 percent of U.S. homes could reduce the costs of decarbonizing the grid by 30 percent and avoid the need for 24,500 miles of new transmission lines by 2050. bit.ly/3RSxccM
Raphael Carty retweeted
People are more open to constructive criticism when it’s clear that you believe in their potential and care about their growth.
link.chtbl.com/RTAdam
Raphael Carty retweeted
Heat-pump water heaters are so ridiculously efficient that owners who switch from fossil gas and electric-resistance models can save $200 to $550 each year. Full of the tech’s ins and outs, this article could have you rethinking your source of hot showers. bit.ly/47c4l93
Raphael Carty retweeted
Evaluation is all we need.
We can’t keep talking about AGI and ASI in the abstract.
We need a taxonomy of Machine Intelligence (what are we talking about?) and better evaluation tools (how de we measure this?).
A 🧵
1/n
👇
Raphael Carty retweeted
There's this joke that fusion is always 30 years away.
But since the 1970s, the triple-product has improved by 5 orders of magnitude, faster than Moore's Law.
The curve says fusion is much closer than you think.
So we talked to @claydumas, @Andercot, @soundboy, Ryan Umstattd of @Energy_Zap, and Sehila Gonzalez of @cleanaircatf to learn more about fusion.
Get prepped to cheer on the last leg in the fusion race. Full episode linked in reply:
Raphael Carty retweeted
Yes, I do.
LLMs produce their answers with a fixed amount of computation per token.
There is no way for them to devote more (potentially unlimited) time and effort to solving difficult problems. This is very much akin to the human fast and subconscious "System 1" decision process.
True reasoning and planning would allow the system to search for a solution, using a potentially unlimited unlimited time for it. This iterative inference process is more akin to the human deliberate and conscious "System 2".
This is what allows humans and many animals to find new solutions to new problems in new situations.
Some AI systems have planning abilities, namely those that play games or control robots. Game playing AI systems such as AlphaGo, AlphaZero, Libratus (poker), and Cicero (Diplomacy) have planning abilities. These systems are still fairly limited in their planning abilities, compared to animals and humans.
To have more general planning abilities, an AI system would need to possess a *world model*, i.e. a subsystem that can predict the consequences of an action sequence: given the state of the world at time t, and an imagined action I could take, what would be the set of plausible states of the world at time t+1.
With a world model, a system can plan a sequence of action so as to fulfill an objective.
How to build and train such world models is still a largely unsolved problem.
Even more complex is how to decompose a complex objective into a sequence of sub-objectives. This would enable hierarchical planning, something that humans and many animals can do effortlessly but is still completely out of reach of AI systems.
Raphael Carty retweeted
.@heirloomcarbon's "direct air capture" facility in Tracy, California uses limestone to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Through a novel process, the captured carbon is then injected into concrete, where it ostensibly stays trapped forever. bit.ly/49umNvO
Raphael Carty retweeted
Today, we announced historic action towards expanding the national power grid.
Up to $1.3B will be committed to installing three new transmission lines, creating thousands of jobs and bringing the U.S. closer to adding 3.5GW grid capacity.
energy.gov/articles/biden-ha…
Raphael Carty retweeted
Join us 10/27 at 9:00AM-9:45AM EST for our Opening Keynote on "Sustainability as a Driver of Innovation" featuring @TensieWhelan @NYUStern @NYUSternCSB #sterninnovation Register now:
bit.ly/REGISTER2023INNO
Raphael Carty retweeted
Join us at the @NYUStern 2023 Innovation and Environmental Sustainability Conference on 10/27! Don't miss the 9:45 AM EST panel on "Decarbonizing Our Cities" – a vital discussion for a greener future. ! #SternInnovation #Sustainability #Decarbonization bit.ly/REGISTER2023INNO
Raphael Carty retweeted
Replying to @NYUStern
@NYUStern Innovation Conference: Innovation and Environmental Sustainability, Friday, October 27, 2023
Please join us! We will hear from an amazing ensemble of scholars and practitioners about the opportunities, & challenges. mailchi.mp/stern/nyu-stern-f… #sterninnovation
Raphael Carty retweeted
2023 @NYUStern Innovation and Environmental Sustainability Conference. Join us on 10/27 at 12:00 pm ET to hear from innovative leaders in carbon capture and decarbonization. @DavidWakerley of @dioxycle, @bmasparro of CarbonQuest & @RaphaelCarty. bit.ly/REGISTER2023INNO
Raphael Carty retweeted
A new Boston skyscraper has a climate-friendly claim to fame. Last week, it became the largest office space in the world certified to the extremely energy-efficient "Passive House" standards — and the first skyscraper in the U.S. to earn the label. bit.ly/3tsSPrE
Raphael Carty retweeted
EVs have hit a tipping point for adoption in the U.S. — and now two models from @Tesla are cheaper than many fossil-fueled alternatives.
Reporting by @ewesoff: bit.ly/46EZQo5
Wow, what a finale for The Wheel of Time: Above the Watchers shall the Dragon be proclaimed, bannered ‘cross the sky in fire! Soaring triumphant finish shows there is always individual choice in the battle of the dark vs. the light. Epic! #WheelOfTime #primevideo #fantasy
Raphael Carty retweeted
Electric trucks do quite well in stop-and-start driving conditions. Not only do they work as efficiently at lower speeds as at higher ones, but they can also recapture a good deal of energy through regenerative braking systems. bit.ly/3rryq5y
Renewables could overtake coal in power generation by 2024! #renewables #energytransition #fightclimatechange #decarbonization
Great news: Renewable energy could overtake coal in electricity generation for the first time ever.
Our interactive map shows some of the billions of💲 of private sector investments in solar, offshore wind, batteries & more.
What’s coming to your state:📍energy.gov/invest
Raphael Carty retweeted
Announcing Helion’s collaboration with Nucor to deploy a 500 MWe fusion power plant.
Helion’s fusion power will be directly connected to a Nucor steelmaking facility and will pave the way for decarbonizing industrial manufacturing.
Read more: helionenergy.com/articles/an…
Another sign of the accelerating impact of climate change.
theguardian.com/environment/… #climateaction #fightclimatechange #sustainability #glaciers












