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Category Archives: artificial intelligence
How to use private, offline AI systems
Thanks to Charlotte Lin https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03227-4 How to use private, offline AI systems https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03227-4 Scientists are turning to a growing suite of tools, such as Ollama and LM Studio, that enable researchers to download large language models to their computer and chat with … Continue reading
Trill seekers: can scientists use AI and tutors to help birds remember lost songs?
A rufous-collared sparrow. The bird’s songs, some of which are no longer heard, have been recreated with a computer from annotations made in the 1960s. About 4,000 of the world’s 10,000 bird species are songbirds, such as finches, sparrows and … Continue reading
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AI to seek cures for chronic health conditions
Thanks to Charlotte Lin https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2026/10/01/this-former-openai-exec-is-trying-to-cure-chronic-diseases-including-her-own/?cdlcid=5ff73278b52f2e83d730861f A little over a year after starting her dream job at OpenAI as Sam Altman’s second-in-command, Fidji Simo stepped down as her health condition worsened. She’d been diagnosed six years earlier with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, … Continue reading
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. By Rose Horowitch in The Atlantic (a subject for Guy Talk on Monday)
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If You Use Gmail, You’re Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Thanks to Mary Lou P. If You Use Gmail, You’re Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP. Click here for the link. Currently Gmail users are “opted in automatically” to allow your emails to be used … Continue reading
Robert Reich – The Most Dangerous Corporation in America
Thanks to Pam P. Friends, Draw a circle around all the assets in America now devoted to Artificial Intelligence. Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the U.S. military. A third around all assets being devoted to … Continue reading
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Noble Prize winner talks about future of AI
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Can you read cursive? It’s a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents are in need of transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast … Continue reading
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Mr. Trump, Do You Realize How Much the World Has Changed Since You Were President?
Ed note: Friedman raised has legitimate concerns that an unfocused chaotic Whitehouse will not have the bandwidth to deal with, let alone understand, the major changes in Iran and Israel. Perhaps more importantly he won’t understand the coming explosion of … Continue reading
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AI writes about CCRCs
Ed note: This morning I asked Bing, Microsoft’s search engine now powered by AI, to write a poem about the benefits of CCRCs. It’s a bit corny but does cover the landscape! Bing responded, “Sure, I’d be happy to write … Continue reading
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