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Program: Can we save a country from climate change by recreating it in the Metaverse?

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Can you save a country… by recreating it in virtual reality? Tuvalu is responding to climate change by cataloguing everything from the trees to the houses in Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse. But is it enough to save a culture headed underwater?

And, OpenAI – famously ethical creator of services like ChatGPT – has decided to teach AI right from wrong.

Plus, robots have entered the operating room, with the world’s first lung transplant fully performed by a robot.

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Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe gives Cop26 statement while standing in the ocean off Fongafale, the main islet of the capital Funafuti.

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