{"id":3640,"date":"2019-09-20T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:27:13","slug":"the-tipping-point-2019-week-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/20\/the-tipping-point-2019-week-38\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tipping Point – 2019 Week 38"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We believe that everyone’s future can be richer, happier and more efficient<\/strong>. But you can’t embrace that future unless you take the first, most crucial step: being informed about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to The Tipping Point<\/a>, a regular post on Future Tech for people who don’t have enough time to read all the full news stories. Instead we shorten them, concentrate everything into one post, put that in your face, and you have to suck it. So let’s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Weeks News!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

AI: Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction<\/a>
OpenAI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We\u2019ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counter strategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-supervised emergent complexity in this simple environment further suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behaviour.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CRYPTO: France and Germany agree to block Facebook’s Libra<\/a>
Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“France and Germany have agreed to block Facebook\u2019s Libra cryptocurrency, the French finance ministry said on Friday. In a joint statement, the two governments affirmed that \u201cno private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENERGY: First Light Fusion: The Future of Electricity Generation and a Clean Base Load?<\/a>
Fully Charged<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As Helen Czerski asks, fusion energy has been forty years away for the last 70 odd years. Are we getting any closer, Helen visits First Light Fusion in Oxfordshire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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