nVIDIA and OpenAI want the smartest people for their companies. Who wouldn't? I keep hearing about how the H-1B visas are preventing American graduates from getting jobs, but since I'm never in the hiring departments, I wouldn't really know what the field looks like. Then I see this article: American students are getting dumber.
So many professors in the South are leaving, because they can't get their way on DEI, gender and race-based education. Wow, the education system has been festering for such a long time. The South is already perceived as being the place to go to avoid woke indoctrination. Certainly to avoid activist protests. The cleansing will be good.
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It happened to Geoffrey Hinton, and it appears to be happening to other couples as well. People are using ChatGPT to attack their spouses, leading to divorces. It's probably easy to get an agreeable chatbot to take your side that your anger is justified and that the other person is unreasonable. It shouldn't be something that leads to breaking apart human relationships, though. We have enough of that already.
Here's another medical startup using AI. I love this quote:
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“Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit,” says Jared Goodner, Akido’s CTO."Yeah, sounds like a winner. /sarc.
The rise of conspiracy physics. I was wondering when others would take notice. I used to think the YouTube videos popularizing physics was beneficial, but lately it's been bizarre, and mainly rants. And I don't know enough about advanced physics to know who is telling the truth.
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Interesting idea. Roger Penrose is supporting an effort to archive recordings of the world's geniuses as they describe the discovery process that led to their math and scientific breakthroughs.
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Lars Larson asks: Is the City of Portland permanently broke? I don't know about permanently, but it will be for a long time.
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