Benefiting

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ten years ago, the United States passed into federal law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), broadening the mandate of state vocational rehabilitation agencies to facilitate successful school-to-work transitions for student populations. Among its many provisions, the measure provided an unparalleled opportunity to expand the scope of available experiences and training to help…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits, following in the footsteps of OpenAI and Anthropic.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewThe general purpose of xAI is to “create a material positive impact on society and the…

Fuel poverty estimates mapped for 2010 (10 % indicator), 2015 (LIHC indicator) and 2019 (LILEE indicator). The maps in the bottom row show the percentage of fuel poor households in each Local Authority for the years indicated. The maps in the top row show the Local Authorities classified into deciles—effectively splitting the Local Authorities in the dataset into ten equal subsections, based on the proportion of fuel poor households in each area. Here…

December 11, 20234min readWhatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have been eviscerated. While it remains a nonprofit, it’s proven entirely beholden to ruthless capitalismBy Ed ZitronSam Altman, seen here at APEC Leader's Week in San Francisco, California, was fired briefly as CEO of OpenAI in Nov. 2023. On November 17 Sam Altman was fired as CEO of OpenAI, arguably the most prominent privately held tech company, famed for pioneering ChatGPT and sparking the current AI boom, as well as…

CEO of NBC Jeff Shell arrives for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 06, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. After a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic the world's most wealthy and powerful businesspeople from the media, finance, and technology will converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive week-long conference.Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesNBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Tuesday the company's movie business is performing well on the hybrid model of releasing some films simultaneously in theaters…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Many travelers say they would prefer to stay at eco-friendly hotels, but lodging facilities don't benefit financially from acquiring certification for green business practices, new research shows. …

For many parents, assisting young children with their homework goes hand in hand with making sure kids eat their vegetables and go to bed on time. It's what you do to help your children get the best start in life.Of all the possible benefits this shared time might provide, however, a boost to those grades probably isn't one of them.Across two national datasets, covering students in public and private elementary schools, researchers from the US found no significant association between parental help with homework and a…

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASAA busy week of critical research benefitting humans living on and off the Earth kicked off for the seven Expedition 67 residents of the International Space Station (ISS). The orbital residents also continued supporting the ISS’s vast array of flight, research, and life support…

The robots have imbibed into themselves a sort of social differentiation and hence they exhibit ‘toxic stereotyping’ Since the beginning experts have been warning us about the perils of artificial intelligence. It is not just in the probabilistic terms of robots overtaking human beings but in ways too subtle to categorize it as dangerous. It can be considered only as a continuation of the earlier experiments, which have been categorized as progressive. Deepmind’s AI systems have been in use for many years to solve…