📺 Secret Sauce for your newsfeeds Dec23-2
😌 The Vagus Nerve Reset is the fastest way to destress your body.
Ken Block was so good at driving that cities would shutdown just to let him do donuts around all their monuments.
What is Q* Reinforcement learning and why did they try to fire Sam Altman over it?
Kobe and Flula Borg teach you Italian and German slang.
Why the new chatbot from Google will be your new BFF.
The new Jurassic Park video game looks more real than the original Jurassic Park movie. Now you can just be in the movie.
These 2 people are engineering the future for 8 billion people.
The robot butlers are coming…
Mark Rober proving his pet Octopus is just as smart as the squirrels in his yard.
Matt Wolfe demonstrates the pros and cons of each AI image generator.
Mars in 4K.
I just published Chapter 7, “Religions as Source Code”, in my new book, “Human Attention”. “Improbable Origins” is the second essay in the chapter.
Improbable Origins
Improbable Origins There are a lot of reasons to believe that the Intelligent Designer of the universe is the Jewish God, YHWH. And I mean that mathematically, because of science. If you recall from chapter 1, “I Doubt Therefore I Am”, we learned about Bayes Theorem which allows scientists (and compute…
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Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to create drugs inside the body
Scientists unveil the world's first Harry Potter invisibility 'cloak'
If you never saw the movie “GATTACA”, you should watch it to learn what’s coming next. Actually, that time has just arrived.
AI Can Recreate Images From Human Brain Waves With ‘Over 75% Accuracy’
If you think you’re recommendation engines are good today, what until your computers can see what you’re thinking and feeling.
Study gauges how people perceive AI-created content
Everybody say they prefer art and literature from another human, but in the blind “taste test” they usually choose the art and literature of artificial intelligence.
New York Times: Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize
So do people.
Nerds are using “autocomplete” to have AI guess the missing genes within DNA. Isn’t that the mistake the scientists made in the original “Jurassic Park” movie?
The Rock’s appearance on Rogan is proof that ‘cancel culture’ lost
Good.
“We find that freelancers in highly affected occupations suffer from the introduction of generative AI, experiencing reductions in both employment and earnings….These results suggest that in the short term generative AI reduces overall demand for knowledge workers of all types, and may have the potential to narrow gaps among workers.”
Invasive Feral Cats Could Be Wiped Out Using Genetic Modification
Remember the butterfly effect? The ripple effects of killing a single butterfly might cause a tsunami on the other side of the world? What happens if you introduce artificial genes that recursively pass down sterility to their offspring?
A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant
Humans are electrical robots, which is why our computers can communicate with our body. The rate of revolutionary medical breakthroughs is continuing to increase.
Deobfuscating the Bible
In this chapter, “Religions as Source Code”, we are exploring the ways the religion could be used to align artificial intelligence with the goals of their creators. In part 2, “Improbable Origins”, we discussed all the scientific reasons that the Jewish Origin Story was orders of magnitude more likely than any Darwinian Origin Sto…