Chatbots · August 2023Gaffe level: Blunder
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
A New Zealand supermarket let shoppers generate recipes from their leftovers with AI, and the bot cheerfully served up chlorine gas, poison bread sandwiches, and glue. Budget cooking tips have never been this dangerous.
Source: The Guardian
China's Clean Tech Exports Will Avoid Emissions Equal to Brazil's Fossil Fuel Total
China's exports of solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, and batteries this year will help the rest of the world avoid 450 million tons of CO2, about as much as Brazil emits from fossil fuels. The climate savings pay back the manufacturing emissions in roughly six months, and most of the benefit lands in the Global South.
Source: Reuters