Another way to proceed is to use our persoanl free GM subscriptions for Microsoft Azure - https://portal.azure.com/#home and look for ChatGPT. However. that is a much more complex environmnet.
Crimson Reason
A site devoted mostly to everything related to Information Technology under the sun - among other things.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Teach Yourself Chat-GPT
Another way to proceed is to use our persoanl free GM subscriptions for Microsoft Azure - https://portal.azure.com/#home and look for ChatGPT. However. that is a much more complex environmnet.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Research on Brain Responses of Programmers
From Nature:
We read, "Computer programmers show distinct, expertise-dependent brain responses to violations in form and meaning when reading code..."
Full artiche here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56090-6
Friday, February 16, 2024
ChatGPT & Fake Science
How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing.
It had to happen...check out the figures.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full
There is no Scientific Truth, Scientific Insight, or Scientific Judgement in this paper; only a disjointed compilation of prior papers.
More on this topic here:
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
World’s First Robot - 3rd Century BC
The Automate Therapaenis (automatic maid)
The Automate Therapaenis (automatic maid) was the name of a technological miracle mentioned by
Philo Byzantios during the 3rd c. BC. The maid was actually a life-sized doll holding an oenochoe
(wine-jug) with its one hand, having the other hand free and extended to receive a drinking vessel.
The doll had a mechanism transferring wine and water from two pots interred in its body, to the jug she
was holding, through tubes passing along her hand. Another set of tubes, going through her free hand
and her body too, were there to enable pouring liquids by providing air. When somebody was placing a
drinking vessel on her free hand, the wine (first) and the water (second) would come automatically from
the wine-jug and they would stop once the drinking vessel was lifted.
A replica of this mechanical ancient Greek miracle is to be found in the Museum of Ancient Greek
Technology, in Katakolo Ileias, the Peloponnese, Greece.
Please see the original Greek post here:
«Aυτόματη θεραπαινίς », Μουσείο Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Τεχνολογίας - Αρχαιολογία Online (archaiologia.gr)
Friday, January 5, 2024
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Saturday, December 9, 2023
Movie: BlackBerry
This is a very engaging 2023 biographical film on the subject of the company called RIM (Research-in-Motion), the creator of BlackBerry phones. It has a good story, very good acting, and the director knows how to tell a story well. Definitely worth watching as it demonstratesd that the "Nerd"s of this world and the "Suit"s of it need each other to succeed; you cannot fly with one wing no matter how good your product is or how capable a business manager you have - you need both.
Monday, October 9, 2023
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence
Reposting a dated article on Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence:
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence | AI Magazine (aaai.org)
Personally, I think that both Ancient Greek and Russian could be used since they have very analogous structures to Sanskrit. For example, when searching for items via a Google-like system, the words in the search could be translated into Ancient Greek, or Russian, or Sanskrit; generating similar - but not identical - search criteria by permuting the order of the words in that search, and then submitting all of the new searches to the Search Engine.
This approach breaks down with Chinese, Korean, or Japanese.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Virtual First Impressions
Evidently, Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence. Please see below
Virtual first impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence | PLOS ONE
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
News of COVID-19 Vaccine
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1242380/full
Helps against COVID, suppresses response to other infections.
Measles virus does this – it wipes out immune system memory of prior immune response. No one really understands why, but the mechanics of it are well-established.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
AI - China's Regulations
From Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - AI regulations in China
China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Career Practices
I think, in retrospect, I have found these practices to be useful:
- Always be very polite –
- Be very honest with yourself on what you can and cannot do
- Never, ever mud-wrestle with a pig, he enjoys it.
- The Work one does is more important than the Title one has
- Be aware of what communication you owe to your leader(s) – what they need to know
- Do not loose sight of what you have been hired for – do not loose sight of the fact that we are here to make money (hopefully, lots of it)
- Listen more, Talk less
- Aim high, so when you fall down, you fall down in a pretty comfortable place
- Volunteer for everything
- Avoid – as much as possible – making enemies
- Always ask your colleagues what they are working on
- If you are miserable somewhere, find a new situation – life is just too short to be spent in tolerating miserable situations.
- Always seek feedback – even when you know it would not be pleasant
- Help others as much as you can
- Wherever you are, take that place as a growth opportunity to learn and to grow to earn more money & perks…
- Keep a Job Diary
- And Be Not Afraid
Friday, July 21, 2023
AI-turbocharged biological computing on the march
It is obvious that the potential of such "programmable chips, fusing biological computing with artificial intelligence [AI]" is huge; therefore, there will be considerable funding available for projects and start-ups in that field. It is the unstoppable march of the bio-robots.
One argument always put forward regarding AI is that even advanced AI systems will never be able to develop emotions and self-awareness: they will remain machines that do what the software inside them tells them to do. (This would still, in theory, present the risk that some dangerous software would be developed for such AI systems by rogue actors, for instance in a country such as Russia or China, or in fact by the military...)
With the advent of "biological computing", it seems clear that one is dealing with a new type of machine, which is partly a living thing: it is not an animal (or human), but it is not an 'ordinary' machine either. It is a bit of both. Something in between a living thing and a computerized system. In due course, there is no reason why, in theory, such a creature of the third type would not develop a form of self-awareness and volition - with all the consequences this could have further down the road.
The ability of human beings to monitor and control effectively such advanced systems over time can only be in serious doubt.
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These programmable chips, fusing biological computing with artificial intelligence, "in future may eventually surpass the performance of existing, purely silicon-based hardware," says project lead, Associate Professor Adeel Razi.
[...] The technology promises machines that can continue to learn new abilities without compromising old ones, that can adapt well to change, and that can map old knowledge onto new situations – while continually self-optimizing their use of computing power, memory and energy.
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https://newatlas.com/computers/human-brain-chip-ai/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=43cb56a607-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_21_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-43cb56a607-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]
Robot dog that talks for $1,600
Better than the real thing...
"Advantage of robot dog is that it may talk to you and it will never stink, like real dog: ordinary dog cannot do that," commented Mr Fung Shi-Tong, Manager of the Jade Empress of China Restaurant in Shanghai, China. "I am thinking robot wife could be good option. Then, you can switch off talk option if you don't want talk, and you don't want wife talk. Very handy. Very clever. Great pleasure of the mind when need to relax after work, for an example. Disadvantage of robot dog is you cannot eat dog: not a real dog. I recommend No.74, Stir-fried Dog Meat in Imperial Plum Sauce with Egg Fried Rice, very good for remedy of longing of profound and musty nether region of backside when consumed regular and spicy, and also for medicalized whimsical reflux of windy artery in left foot and right foot in case of lecherously sublimated cracks of metaphysical strangeness in unhealthy greenish juices behind the flatulent ears. May use robot dog as waiter in future in our restaurant, in fact. Better than real waiter. No complaints and never late. Robot dog always timely and energetic, even when weather too hot, or too humid, or too discreet, or entomologically unsettled in parts."
https://newatlas.com/robotics/unitree-go2-robot-dog-gpt/
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Monday, June 19, 2023
On (Small) Language Models
From the National Interest (on ChatGPT, AI, and Language Models)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/large-language-mo...
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