News editor for New Scientist

London
Joined January 2009
It seems insane that this form exists? 972 hours! Is anyone reading it?
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says that AI can draft 95% of an S1 IPO prospectus “in minutes” (a job that used to require a 6-person team multiple weeks). “The last 5% now matters because the rest is now a commodity,” per Solomon.
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A big one is how we should think about the next pandemic, because there will be one, and whether we are prepared. This was one of the most shocking quotes in the special for me - despite the scale, covid-19 was mild newscientist.com/article/246…
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Here's our magazine cover this week - a special report on five years of covid-19. I would totally understand if you never want to think about covid again, but there are still lots of important scientific questions for us to answer, which I'll go through in this thread
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So informative!
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Replying to @colin_fraser
Secret prompt hack:
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
You had to learn to type fast if you wanted to keep up
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My health also improved when I stopped eating goldfish bowls. Slop here is just getting worse and worse...
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And here is ChatGPT, which uses $0.16 per kWh (I was fudging to make the maths easier) to arrive at a similar answer
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A great selection - here's my pick
New Scientist writers have named their favourite science fiction short stories, by writers from Isaac Asimov to Octavia E. Butler. Do you agree with their choices - and what is your own top pick? newscientist.com/article/246…
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