微软AI聊天全开放；百度演示AI聊天股价跌；2030全球淡水缺40%

1) Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all.

微软向所有人开放其AI驱动的必应聊天机器人，无需再排队等候。

操作上仍然需要经过进入队列等候的步骤，但实际上等候时间几乎为零。

While you’ll still have to technically join a waiting list to be admitted into the “new Bing,” the wait time has been reduced to virtually no time.

2) Baidu shares fall after Ernie AI chatbot demo disappoints.

百度演示“Ernie”人工智能聊天机器人之后股价猛跌。

在ChatGPT出来之后，百度大肆渲染自己的人工智能聊天机器人很快就会推出，也会集成到各种应用中。人们对此翘首以盼。

周四的演示中，只是给了预录的一段视频。投资者不知道这个聊天机器人究竟有多大能耐，于是用脚投票，股票盘中跌了10%。

Shares of Baidu fell as much as 10 percent on Thursday after the web search company showed only a pre-recorded video of its AI chatbot Ernie in the first public release of China’s answer to ChatGPT.

3) Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts.

专家表示，到2030年，全球淡水将短缺40%。

世界正面临着水资源危机，水资源在各地区不平衡、生产和矿产对水资源污染严重、落后国家废水处理不力、全球在农业和水灌溉上的巨大投入常常引起过度消耗，淡水资源日渐缺乏，不仅直接影响到人类的淡水需求，也间接地通过对气候的影响，比如改变了水循环周期，最终影响到人类。

联合国水资源峰会即将在3月22日在纽约召开。

Many governments still do not realise how interdependent they are when it comes to water.

The report sets out seven key recommendations, including reshaping the global governance of water resources, scaling up investment in water management through public-private partnerships, pricing water properly and establishing “just water partnerships” to raise finance for water projects...

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