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In 2017 I concluded the mighty health insurance companies were successfully hiding their premiums income. I just couldn't get a good answer from the Google/Bing duopoly.  What the...? I wrote a blog post challenging readers to see if they could find it. Nope. So today I gave two of my fav chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, the challenge. NO PROBLEMO!  And they pretty much agreed. Claude.ai: Key Premium Revenue Estimates: Total Market Size : The health insurance market size to surpass USD 1.78 trillion in 2024 Measuring total-premium inflation for health insurance in the Consumer Price Index : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Private Health Coverage Spending : Spending on private health coverage is set to exceed $1.5 trillion this year, according to the nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office Best’s Market Segment Report: US Health Insurers Met Challenges in 2024 but Pressures Expected to Persist in 2025 The data suggests that premium revenue from al...

 Two Takes On How Fast  and How Big AI Changes  Are Upon Us Already millions of people are being fooled, made fools of and robbed blind by AI. Already millions are being convinced of "truths" that are really lies. If you say, "Not me!" you better be right. The stakes are high and getting higher fast. You can't believe what you see. You can't believe what you read. The new normal is to doubt everything.  That's the take away from these Truth Tellers, John Oliver and Geoffrey Hinton. John Oliver sent me! LINK My expression give you a hint? LINK It took me 25 minutes to put this post together. AI could do it in seconds. It could do ten variations in a few more seconds. If it couldn't find a picture of Geoffrey Hinton it liked, AI could create one. In seconds. Watch these two assessments of the situation. Ramp up your mental guard dogs. Don't believe your eyes.  You've been warned. P.S. I LOVE AI.  I'm beguiled by it. I use it all the time. ...

  Three Years Ago (summer, 2022) I posted: Blogging With Dall-E... Bizarre    ...and it was. Wrong number of fingers, strange eyes, inconsistent physics. But have things ever changed for the better! Multi-level prompts get amazing results. Body parts are under control for sure. You know how fast AI is moving.  All the chatbots are getting smarter, having fewer hallucinations and becoming specialists in hundreds of fields. Stills and video generation are becoming mind bogglingly good.  I thought I'd revisit Chat-GPT's graphics generator (not called Dall-E much any more) again to see if it's as good as I've read it is.  I fired off a moderately detailed prompt: PROMPT: Create an image of an old man (totally bald, with a short full beard that is all white) wearing a parachute type harness which holds an anti-gravity device on his back. he is cruising along at 20 feet above a wide, empty field of grasses and wildflowers. The perspective must be from slightly ab...

  I'm surounded by people very upset by what's going on in Washington. Most of them say "What can we do about it? What can I do?" A data wizard I know has built a complete set of handbooks to show you the way. It's very powerful, with specific targeting of each of the "hits" in the exploding chaos in D.C. Whichever huge challenge grabs you the most, there's a "handbook" of what you can do about it. (For instance: I'm grinding my teeth over the defunding of NPR and PBS,  I think the attack on science is tragic, and I am sick over the destruction of USAID.) You can pick your topic and there is a customized set of aids, suggestions, and gems of facts ready for you to use.  https://constitutionaldefenders.org/index.html The site is also motivating, which all of us need a bit. It clearly shows what you can do "right now," then it makes it easy to do. And it's all free.  I urge you to check it out, spend a few minutes clicking ...