Time is short to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels, but there are practical and effective solutions on the table, according to a new UN climate report.
Despite decades of warnings from scientists, global greenhouse-gas emissions are on track to hit a record high by 2022. And 2030, according to the report.
That would be complicated and expensive. But it is doable, and the United Nations has outlined several specific ways we can achieve it. Read the full story.
– Casey Crownheart
How people use GPT-4
Last week was very intense for AI news with a flood of major products from several major companies. But one announcement lit them all up: OpenAI’s new multimodal large language model GPT-4. Our Senior AI Editor William Douglas Haven got an exclusive preview. Read on for first impressions.
Unlike OpenAI’s viral hit ChatGPT, which is freely available to the public, GPT-4 is currently only accessible to developers. It’s still early days for the technology, and new products and services will take some time to break into. Still, people are officially testing its capabilities. Read about the most fun and interesting ways they’re doing that, from fundraising to coding to reduce doctors’ workloads.
– Melissa Heikkila
