Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2022

The South African patent office made history in July when it issued a patent that listed an artificial intelligence system as the inventor. The patent is for a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This guest article is adapted from the author’s new book From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech , published by MIT Press. In 2023, 499 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa, an increase of more than 10 percent from 2022. Take AI collars for rhinos.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires. “It has implications for us.

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