6 November 2025

Open Health and Research Compass are two initiatives where someone downloaded papers from PubMed and other sources and hooked up a chat query interface. The Open Health site has a lot of claims liked 135,000+ users trust it. Sounds like typical marketing. I wasn't impressed with Research Compass. The response to my inquiry was superficial and was based on a handful of citations from really obscure and questionable sources. Open Health's responses seemed more solid and evidence-based. But I asked it a question about "What should I know about taking bortezomib for my cancer treatment?" and it gave a long response delving into the drug and its mechanism. But I couldn't find any mention of avoiding taking vitamin C on the day of treatment, as it may abrogate its efficacy.  No substitute for a good doctor or nurse.

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Here's what's scary as an employer:
  •     65% use unauthorized AI tools at work
  •     30% have fed sensitive company data into ChatGPT
  •     Retail workers are the worst offenders: 72% using shadow AI
There's the usual trust issues, and concerns about return on investment. I'm not that interested in this because I know that many or most companies are still feeling their way with AI and many are just using public chat bots with no prompt training. And that generative AI tools we have now are still fairly early, despite their already impressive achievements. We're not where we need to be, and much of what we see is illusory, in terms of real comprehension and understanding, which is what we really need to see.

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Brave explorers. 110,000 spiders in a giant web.  It's on the border of Albania and Greece, so that's good.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backtracks after saying China will win AI race. What, did someone talk to him? Now he's saying that China is "nanoseconds" behind the U.S. but that's not exactly contradicting what he said earlier.

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AI smart ring lets you record your voice. It is meant to “capture thoughts in the moment” but it has a greater potential than that. But if you have an Apple Watch, do you need this, too?

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OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework. So what good is AI? To help students cheat.

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Here's Oregon's economic forecast for the foreseeable future. What can we see?
Revenue is declining. Payroll is declining. Unemployment is increasing. 
Oregon is below the US average in GDP, but the US GDP is declining to Oregon levels. 
And that the General fund was really well-funded under Biden. There was such a huge flow of Federal money. More than even during Obama and Clinton.  Oregon had a subsidized life. No wonder they hoped Kamala would win. 
Well, an Oregonian writer wants Oregon to be a "magnet of opportunity".  Yeah, that ain't happening under Democrat leadership.

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