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I Find MIT a Credible Source Especially About Science ...and you?  The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Ever since World War II, the US has been the global leader in science and technology—and benefited immensely from it. Research fuels American innovation and the economy in turn. Scientists around the world want to study in the US and collaborate with American scientists to produce more of that research.  These international collaborations play a critical role in American soft power and diplomacy. The pr...

  All Three Agree I keep three of the free AI chatbots on my desktop. If I have an important question I ask all three, using the same prompt. This time I indulged my low level anxiety about what's going on in Trumpville. I prompted: "What is the best historical situation in which a country goes through the kind of political conditions the U.S. is currently experiencing?" Lo and behold... CoPilot:    The Weimar Republic period in Germany (1918-1933) is a significant historical example that shares similarities with the current political conditions in the U.S. Gemini:   Several historical situations share similarities with the current political climate in the U.S., but one particularly apt example is the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918-1933) . Claude.ai:   The Weimar Republic period in Germany (1918-1933) offers several relevant parallels. Each one elaborated, gave other cases and asked me if I wanted more.  Ask them yourself for the expanded versions, but ...

...Depends On Who They Hang Out With  AI is moving so fast almost no one except the pros can really keep up. Many people, if the small but diverse sample in my personal sphere is at all representative, see a 'person' of sorts in the chatbot they use. I think a kid with a chatbot personal tutor most certainly will. You can have a conversation with a chatbot at a higher level than you can with most folks. And the bots are getting better by the day. They seem alive to a lot of us human beans. Billions of bucks are crashing around. Progress curves are steepening. International competition is amping up. [Just as I'm posting this, it is becoming clear that Chinese LLMs are competitive and more energy-efficient.] The ballistic move to Artificial General Intelligence is underway. Which just lights up my sci-fi heart. SUPERINTELLIGENCE IS INEVITABLE ONCE AGI HAPPENS People seem to forget the seminal Nick Bostrom prediction that the first SI to get its act together would take over th...

 7264 New Human Proteins*     A New Category of Proteins, "Micro-proteins," thousands of them.  Call me impressionable, but I think this is a HUGE** story. The implications are mega.  Micro-Protein Regular Old Protein 1. We don't know what most of them do YET. 2. Finding what they do is a perfect job for machine learning. We'll be learning fast. 3. Understanding what they all do will be a whole new info layer about us human beans. 4. It's very likely many new pharmaceutical "targets" will be found, especially for highly personalized medicine. New opportunities will emerge for such as MS, Alzeimer's, and all the chronic diseases. 5. Health optimization targets likewise will be found. Longer healthspans and such. 6. Presumably Alpha Fold can describe thousands more micro-proteins as another jump in knowledge. 7. My personal belief (that complex combinations of micro-proteins are what makes the placebo effect work) will be confirmed. Exciting, no? Call ...