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...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 ...