DAVOS A.I. WARNING
THE VOICE OF AMERICA WARNS ON JANUARY 10, 2024, “A.I.-Powered Misinformation is World’s Biggest Short-Term Threat, Davos Report Says.” World Economic Forum, a Davos Annual Event. “The World Economic Forum,” … Continue reading
DRESS CODE BROKEN (YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST)
SORTA. SIMANAITISSAYS WAS LESS THAN three months old when it posted “Travelers’ Code,” November 5, 2012. And now Popular Mechanics, January 2, 2024, posts “A Woman Hid This Secret Code … Continue reading
ON ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE maintains a lively Member Community, one of its active members being Ronnie Hawkins, whose PhD in Philosophy and MD combine in her … Continue reading
A.I. GETS CHALLENGED LEGALLY
IT WAS INEVITABLE: A MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATION suing a purveyor of Artificial Intelligence. Indeed, there are multiple layers in this, given that SimanaitisSays gleans information about this matter from one of … Continue reading
GRACE HOPPER FORCED COMPUTERS TO SPEAK ENGLISH, SORTA PART 2
YESTERDAY NICE NEWS INTRODUCED US TO mathematician Grace Hopper. Today in Part 2, we follow her career in the pioneer days of computers and at the nexus of academe and … Continue reading
GRACE HOPPER FORCED COMPUTERS TO SPEAK ENGLISH, SORTA PART 1
NICE NEWS (A WEBSITE THAT DISTRIBUTES JUST THAT) recently, December 8, 2023, had a fascinating item about computer scientist/Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Quite appropriately, Hopper was known as “Queen of … Continue reading
CATCHIN’ ZZZS WITH THE WADDLE
ANIMALS OF ALL SORTS, HUMANS INCLUDED, engage in microsleep, seconds-long interruptions of wakefulness. Why they/we do it is not completely clear, as the short duration may have little benefit in … Continue reading
A.I. TO REVOLUTIONIZE WEATHER PREDICTION
METEOROLOGISTS DESCRIBE IT AS “the ‘quiet revolution’: a gradual but steady improvement in weather forecasting.” Paul Voosen writes in AAAS Science, November 17, 2023, “Today the 6-day forecast is about … Continue reading
MORE A.I. BS
QUITE INDEPENDENT OF RECENT BUSINESS MACHINATIONS in the A.I. industry, there still remains the inherent problem of addressing hallucinations. SimanaitisSays discussed this in “On Chatbots and Other Hallucinators.” And in … Continue reading
TURING’S BOMBE; HOLMES MEETS HARRY NILE
TALK ABOUT SERENDIPITY: November 30 marks publication of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” The November 2023 issue of BBC HISTORY recounts this idea … Continue reading
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