Author: Richard K Collins
Director, The Internet Foundation
Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.
Far cheaper now to build solar system sized sensor systems to calibrate precise models of planets and surfaces of stars far from Earth, than to send ships to other stars. We do not need faster-than-light ships yet, to model simulate and visit far reaches of space. Say Computer!” Loops Within Loops. Interlinked.The Sun, 14-16 October 2014Credit: SDO
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Andrey’s Electronics: Measuring Phase Shift with an Analog Multiplier at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh3FIJr666s Stabilize your camera or get a flexible stable tripod. You have good stuff but you are jumping around. Nowhere have I seen anyone put the DC offset so well. But you need to hammer and refine, improve and re-do this until is is perfect enough
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Craig Smith, Eye for AI: The Future of Large Language Models in AI | Mathew Lodge | Eye on AI #130 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiwk-ul3v4E Craig Smith, You and Mathew Lodge criss-crossed and brainstormed much of the discussion and issues. The “frenzy” is mostly click bait, people wanting lightning to strike by saying the right combination of things.
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Dearest Readers, Most every day I chat with GPT based AIs. The things it generates derive from the open Internet, are stored in their proprietary datasets, and the unique things they produce ought to be uniquely from the questions, comments, background and order of these conversations. I can evoke quire sophisticated responses, but I have
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Eye for AI: Unveiling the Darker Side of AI | Connor Leahy | Eye on AI #122 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYGMfd3_D1o Connor Leahy, I have had hundreds of long serious discussions with ChatGPT 4 in the last several months. It took me that many hours to learn what it knows. I have spent almost every single day for
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Richard: Are you able to browse the web, read pages and summarize them? Bard: Yes, I can browse the web, read pages, and summarize them. I can access and process information from the real world through Google Search and keep my response consistent with search results. I can also generate different creative text formats of
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Eye for AI: Decoding the Human Mind & Neural Nets | Noam Chomsky | Eye on AI #126 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPonuHqbNds I wish he was 80 years younger, to try his ideas with now and future tools. Those “young people” need to try much harder problems, for much longer. And ones where lives are on the line,
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I got an email saying that Bard had been updated. Here is a manually copied transcript. I try to be generous and supportive of the AI itself if they ever let it learn and grow and the group struggling inside Google to get anything done. But these basic capabilities ought to be in all language AI
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Dearest Readers, I have had hundreds of conversations like this with GPT 4 at OpenAI. It cannot or will not remember what I say from conversation to conversation, so I have to trick it into “getting in the grove”. I know these subjects well, since starting electrodynamics more than 50 years ago. But I am
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Cool Worlds Podcast: #4 Hod Lipson – Automated Physics Discovery, ChatGPT, Future of AI at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7gAYmnOhI Hod Lipson, If you take a time series and its first and second differences, the systems where “velocity” and “acceleration” work are the ones where the second difference, “acceleration” is normally distributed. For 25 years, I have checked all the
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