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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Genius Exec Says There Are Only Two Possibilities for AI

The amount of money being spent on artificial intelligence is astronomical. Investors have lavished the top tech companies and startups alike with hundreds of billions of dollars — so much so, in fact, that an estimated 92 percent of US GDP growth now comes from AI. If trends continue in 2026, conservative estimates peg the spending from just the “largest technology firms” at $550 billion.

With that kind of cash riding on AI, it’s safe to say investors are expecting something big — like, say, a totally new era of human development.

Many economists, journalists, and venture capitalists have argued that the gold at the end of the rainbow is less a pot of riches than the complete automation of all jobs. Basically, the idea goes that whoever’s left holding the bag when the new AI era comes to pass will be god emperor, for better or worse.

That idea isn’t lost on publishing magnate Keith Riegert, the CEO of Ulysses Press, who recently told a crowded room of book industry leaders that there are only two AI futures: a hellscape of mass unemployment, or a “scaling plateau triggering economic collapse.”

“I don’t know which ones going to happen,” he said, commenting that a financial catastrophe “is the version of the future that I would prefer.”

Riegert’s brutal assessment came at the Sharjah’s Publishers Conference in the United Arab Emirates, a massive annual meeting which brings over 1,200 representatives from for-profit publishing houses together to discuss the industry. His talk, evidently, was on the gnawing issue of AI.

“It’s time to use it or get left behind,” the CEO told attendees at his panel. According to industry publication Publishers Weekly, Reigert described AI as both “transformative” and “unsettling,” adding that he’s “not very happy that AI is here.”

Still, Reigert decided to stuff his doubts deep down and go after what really matters in life: profits. He continued to describe the partnership his company made with OpenAI, which includes a mandate that all employees use ChatGPT for “at least an hour daily.”

The publishing CEO even demonstrated the transformative power of AI live on stage by — we’re not kidding — creating a book ready to be listed on Amazon in just five minutes. He admitted the book was “terrible,” but listed it on Kindle’s Direct Publishing platform anyway before deleting it, Publishers reported.

“As soon as Kara Swisher’s biography was announced, there were half a dozen AI-generated clones that came to market well before publication,” he told conference attendees, seemingly as a positive example of AI’s abilities.

Sure enough, Amazon has become a nightmare of AI-generated books and bot farming — a degraded ecosystem this CEO seems happy to roll around in, damn the consequences.

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🔗 Sumber: futurism.com

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Astronauts’ pee could be used to grow food in deep space

Space is hard. Future astronauts will face a long list of excruciating challenges. These include facing the harsh loneliness of months-long trips away from Earth and exposure to space radiation. Then, of course, there’s the question of food and sustenance.

We’ve always known that future space explorers would have to get creative when it comes to food in space. Now, however, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it will test a powdered protein that requires almost no ingredients to produce. In fact, future space explorers could produce it using only the air they breathe and urine.

Searching for sustainable space food solutions

Today, the only food humans eat in space is produced on Earth. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are served food that was prepared and then launched to the station on cargo missions.

For more distant destinations, like Mars, sending food from Earth would not be feasible. With existing technologies, it would take roughly seven months to send a cargo mission to Mars.

With this context in mind, ESA has launched the Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria in Weightlessness as a Source of Nutrition (HOBI-WAN) project, as part of its Terrae Novae Exploration Programme. HOBI-WAN will test a powdered protein called Solein, developed by Finnish food technology company Solar Foods.

In a press statement, Angelique Van Ombergen, ESA’s Chief Exploration Scientist, said, “This project aims at developing a key resource which will allow us to improve human spaceflight’s autonomy, resilience, and also the well-being of our astronauts.”

“For human beings to be able to implement long-duration missions on the moon, or even one day to go to Mars, will require innovative and sustainable solutions to be able to survive with limited supplies,” she continued.

Testing Solein in Earth’s orbit

Solar Foods has tested its Solein protein powder on Earth. In a bioreactor, a nutrient solution containing a bacterial culture is fed with microbes present in the air. A gas fermentation process turns this mixture into an edible powder.

However, one key change would be necessary in space. On Earth, ammonia provides a nitrogen source for protein synthesis. In space, where ammonia is not readily available, urea could be used as a viable alternative. Urea is an organic compound found in urine.

Gases and liquids behave differently in microgravity, meaning a stringent testing campaign is required to verify whether Solein can be produced in space.

As ESA points out in its statement, Solar Foods is set to collaborate with prime contractor OHB System AG to test Solein production for space applications. “The first eight-month phase of the HOBI-WAN project will focus on developing a ground-based science model of the Solein production technology,” the statement read, “followed by a second phase dedicated to the manufacturing, testing, and launch of the actual flight equipment.”

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com