MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosio

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacula

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing what he does best: warning of AI-related doom that he doesn’t sound all that pressed about.

Last week, while touring one of OpenAI’s mammoth data centers being built in Abilene, Texas, Altman had a pretty casual outlook when he was asked about a bubble that could financially decimate the entire industry.

“Between the ten years we’ve already been operating and the many decades ahead of us, there will be booms and busts,” Altman ruminated, as quoted by The Associated Press. “People will overinvest and lose money, and underinvest and lose a lot of revenue.”

“We’ll make some dumb capital allocations,” he conceded — but assured that “over the arc that we have to plan over, we are confident that this technology will drive a new wave of unprecedented economic growth.” 

It’s the kind of blasé, bromidic talk you’d expect to hear from a coach of a sports team that’s on a historic losing streak. Oh yes, “there’ll be ups and downs” — and your eyes glaze over. You forgive them, though, because, well, what else are they going to say? That everything’s going down the toilet?

But Altman commands a half-trillion-dollar startup that’s the tip of the spear for an out-of-control AI gold rush. Pretty much the entire world economy is tangled up in the hundreds of billions of investment being poured into the industry. 

Illustrating just how all-devouring AI is, here’s this worrying statistic provided by the Wall Street Journal: in the US, capital expenditures for AI contributed more to growth in the economy in the past two quarters than all of consumer spending, according to Neil Dutta, head of economic research at Renaissance Macro Research, citing data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

So it’s hardly an exaggeration to suggest that if the AI bubble bursts, it could take the whole economy down with it.

And the omens are everywhere if you look for them — the most looming being the fact that the biggest AI firms haven’t demonstrated that they can turn a profit with the tech that everyone is banking billions of dollars on revolutionizing productivity. 

But nonchalant doomsaying is Altman’s specialty. And it’s not the first time that he’s warned about an AI bubble. In August, he outright said we were in one.

“When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman told reporters, as quoted by The Verge. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes.”

He’s also warned for years that AI will wipe out entire categories of jobs, cripple society by drowning it in misinformation, or perhaps cause a Terminator-style apocalypse that lays waste to the human race.

Of course, when Altman makes these prophecies about AI, he’s also hyping it up. And perhaps part of why he can seem so nonplussed about impending catastrophes, financial or existential, is that he’s convinced that his company will be the one that comes out the other side stronger.

Right after warning of a bubble in August, Altman acknowledged that “someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money,” but that, of course, “we don’t know who.”

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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Doctors Find Evidence That Microplastics Are Degrading Y

Microplastics are showing up everywhere in the human body, but what does this actually mean for our health?

For starters: potentially crumbling our poor skeletons.

New research suggests that the inescapable plastic particles could be weakening our bones by hindering their ability to generate new tissue. This, along with other harmful effects on bone health that the researchers found, could be contributing to a rise in diseases like osteoporosis worldwide.

“The potential impact of microplastics on bones is the subject of scientific studies and isn’t negligible,” Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira, coauthor of a new study published in the journal Osteoporosis International, said in a statement about the work.

The work is the latest to explore the effects of ubiquitous microplastic pollution on the human body. Though it’s firmly established that microplastics are virtually omnipresent, and have invaded everywhere from our brains to bloodstreams to bodily fluids, how this impacts our wellbeing is unclear. It also pairs uneasily with previous research that found microplastics in our bone marrow.

There was already reason to be concerned about microplastics’ effect on health. Some research has suggested that microplastics could be contributing to rising rates of mental health issues like depression and dementia, with a recent study showing that mice that were deliberately exposed to the particles developed symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

Other studies have shown that “microplastics impair cell viability, accelerate cell aging, and alter cell differentiation, in addition to promoting inflammation,” said Oliveira, coordinator of the Laboratory for Mineral and Bone Studies in Nephrology at the State University of Campinas in Brazil. 

For this latest research, Oliveira’s team pored over more than 60 in vitro and animal studies that explored the effects of microplastics. Armed with all that data, their analysis showed that the particles can promote the formation of cells called osteoclasts, which are responsible for degrading old bone tissue so newer tissue can grow. 

Along with other negative effects on cell health the researchers found that microplastics cause — most notably reducing white blood cell counts and disturbing the microorganisms in your gut — this knocks the bone cycle severely out of balance, causing osteoclasts to degrade more tissue than can be regenerated. This can weaken the bones, cause deformities, and even lead to fractures.

It can also, according to the researchers, lead to something even more ominous.

“In this study, the adverse effects observed culminated, worryingly, in the interruption of the animals’ skeletal growth,” Oliveira said.

These bone-weakening symptoms, if the link holds up, make microplastics a risk factor for osteoporosis, a disease that causes your bones to become brittle as they lose density and mass. Osteoporosis-related fractures are increasing worldwide largely due to an aging population, with one in three women and one in five men over the age 50 expected to experience one in their lifetime, according to the International Osteoporosis Foundation. These rates may increase by 32 percent by 2050, estimates show.

Given that microplastics are literally everywhere, it makes sense that it could be a culprit behind the global trend. Next up, Oliveira and his team want to put this connection to the test by exploring how they affect the strength of rodent femurs.

“There’s a gap in our knowledge regarding the influence of microplastics on the development of these diseases,” Oliveira said. “One of our goals is to generate evidence suggesting that microplastics could be a potential controllable environmental cause to explain… the increase in the projected number of bone fractures.”

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