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• Budget a chance to tackle the ‘missing middle’ of Aus innovation

  05-02-2025 23:49
  
  In its Pre-Budget submission on behalf of more than 225,000 scientists and technologists, Science & Technology Australia has called for strategic investment in industry development to create a prosperous Australia made from Australian ideas.  
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• Bill Gates On AI: ‘Humans Won’t Be Needed For Most Things”

  05-02-2025 17:27 via technocracy.news
  
  Arch-Technocrat Bill Gates is promoting his just-released autobiography, Source Code: My Beginnings, and of course, he has the chops to get on the Jimmy Fallon show. Fawning as always, Fallon was genuinely shocked to hear that humans will be needed “Not for most things.” Will AI write all jokes in the future comedians and then stand up a lifelike avatar comedian to deliver to the TV? This will probably haunt Fallon in the coming days. ⁃ Patrick Wood.  Editor.Bill Gates say
  
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• Scientists Just Created Made-From-Scratch Synthetic Life

  05-02-2025 01:17 via technocracy.news
  
  First yeast, then ?? Genetic scientists are ecstatic that they have outdone God, a common Transhuman fantasy. They think that they will go on to create food crops for human and animal consumption that could ” survive the rigors of a changing climate or widespread disease.” Oh, thrill. What could go wrong with this? ⁃ Patrick Wood,  Editor.After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, putting to
  
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