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Tripping on AI

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James Tanner (FSC teacher) is sold on using AI to assist in genealogical research. Katherine Borges, Director of ISOGG, has lost her soul to AI. Respected members of MoCoGenSo are beginning to use AI.
So what should I do?

There was 1966 and ELIZA, the first chatbot.
In 1968 the film 2001: Space Odyssey is released
March 2016 Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeats Go champion Lee Sedol. Then Nov 30 2022 – the first public release of ChatGPT (GPT-3.5)

2 excellent YouTube presentations for your viewing pleasure:

==) David Chalmers, NYU professor of Philosophy and Neural Science

3 mn old presentation: “When we talk to AI, what are we talking to?”

https://youtu.be/uUjJOMcNU9w?is=E9ggLSrl8e_czkvt

==) Adam Brown, of Blueshift, Google Deepmind

4mn old presentation: “Training Sand to Think: Artificial General Intelligence & Future of Physics”

https://youtu.be/Mw60FH5iflI?is=Yokjhxqnbl3omCQ2

==) Some ways to improve AI results:

1. scale (bigger neural net)
2. more and better data
3. ask nicely = chain of thought = add “think step by step” to your prompt 4. thinking for a long time
5. reinforcement learning
6. conversation between multiple LLMs

imho. AI now is like early airplanes. Eventually airplanes were used heavily by military and little bits by wealthy experimenters. Then business use was developed, mainly for employee movement. Finally, use by middle to upper class for pleasure. How will AI progress within human culture?

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the largest and most detailed 2D map of the Universe ever released

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The interactive interface is entirely open to the public via the official DESI Legacy Imaging Viewer portal. Visitors can seamlessly zoom, pan, and query specific cosmic coordinates. What was once exclusive laboratory data has been transformed into an accessible tool for everyone: citizen scientists and astronomy hobbyists alike. Arjun Dey, co-lead of the Legacy Surveys and an astronomer at NSF NOIRLab, says: “For our team, these data are fundamental to the investigation of the expansion history of the Universe and the formation of our galaxy. But the skies belong to everyone, and this survey gives everyone the chance to marvel at their wonders.”

See it here:

https://www.legacysurvey.org/

example viewing:

https://www.legacysurvey.org/viewer#NGC%206289

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New Technique Pinpoints Human DNA Inherited from ‘Ghost’ Ancestors

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A timeline showing four separate instances (colored arrows) of archaic hominins interbreeding with early Homo sapiens. The dates were inferred from a genealogical analysis of present-day human genomes using TRACE, a technique developed at UC Berkeley. Yulin Zhang and Priya Moorjani/UC Berkeley

From UC Berkely, by Robert Sanders

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/new-technique-pinpoints-human-dna-inherited-ghost-ancestors

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We Told You So

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While heatwaves are nothing new to American summers, the regularity and severity of such events is worsening due to the human-caused climate crisis. The release of heat-trapping gases due to the burning of fossil fuels has caused global temperatures to escalate above anything previously experienced during human civilization.

“We are experiencing exactly what the climate models in the 1990s said we should experience now,” said Andy Pershing, chief program officer at Climate Central, a climate change communications non-profit.

“That is, more frequent, more severe heatwaves, bigger temperature anomalies, more humidity, higher overnight temperatures. These are all part and parcel of the climate story.”

The Associated Press contributed reporting in The Guardian

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