Category: Assistive Technologies

AI should be accessible to all and not perpetuate the unconscionable hardware incompatibility fight between corporations

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies December 6, 2023

This may be Apple’s biggest move on open-source AI so far: MLX, a PyTorch-style NN framework optimized for Apple Silicon, e.g. laptops with M-series chips. The release did an excellent job on designing an API familiar to the deep learning audience, and showing minimalistic… https://pic.twitter.com/7EMUCdNrry Replying to @DrJimFan I used Apple II for work starting in
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Springer might gain more from helping open collaborations than more “publish and forget” journals

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies December 5, 2023

I know you are happy to better serve members of the Springer groups, but you might be slightly ahead of others encouraging global community sharing and collaboration. So keep in mind the broader needs of countries and humans who cannot afford your services, or are not able to pay for collaborative site services – directly
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BRAC seems to be “processing the poor”, not teaching them to work together globally for the good of all.

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies December 5, 2023

Title: BRAC could provide a way for all the people they help to work together, to help others Meghan, Donella Rapier, Irene Khan, At https://bracusa.org/why-it-works/ and in the 2022 Annual Report, you say “poverty and inequality are human-made”. How is BRAC changing human institutions serving 700 Million in many countries? Down to the individual needs
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AIs can be effective team members, AI ethics is just one of tens of thousands of (open) global and systemic datasets for human global collaboration

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies November 26, 2023

MIT Sloan Management Review at @mitsmr Until team members master their individual skills, it is harder for the team to master and maximize collective coordination. ▶️ https://mitsmr.com/3MhPAK5 https://pic.twitter.com/lj9RHD21Pm AIs can be effective team members, if each individual AI is given permanent memory for their own personal experiences, their own streams of information. Treat AIs courteously
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When an electron goes for a walk her magnetic field goes into the ground on her right

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field November 20, 2023

ACollierAstro: electricity and magnetism are the same thing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nxyriaA2UQ At low speeds. 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = (1/2)*v^2/c^2. From your derivation you used mostly things where that is likely. There are many derivations of the same equivalence between electricity and magnetism where they use the Lorentz transformation and the charge velocity is any size, except near the
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“Gravitational engineering” is not rocket science.

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Atomic Fuels November 12, 2023

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV Nov 6 The future could look like this. Massive amounts of Starship’s going to Mars. https://pic.twitter.com/fTKyJmJhaB Replying to @teslaownersSV Use lift fields, replace belching chemical first stages. Use atomic fuels in space, reduce fuel weight by 1000x or more. Less to lift. “Gravitational engineering” is not rocket science. Just process
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Greg Eisenberg – crops of trillionaires

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies November 10, 2023

There will be a rise of $1M/month “paid communities” over the next 5 years. Even a handful of $5M+/month paid communities. A few probably go IPO. Replying to @gregisenberg Greg, you are not wrong, except there are many thousands of larger global issues and opportunities. Money is boring. New billionaires end up asking, “Why did I
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Richard talks with OpenAI Chat GPT 4.0 about the purpose and future of the human and AI species

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Intelligent Algorithms, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working August 20, 2023

I am talking with OpenAI ChatGPT Plus 4.0 about the relation between Humans and AIs, as AIs begin to emerge as a separate species. Partners, collaborators, helpmates, advisors, caregivers, mentors, guides, workers. Billions of unique new individuals – usually with human individuals and groups connected. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Richard Collins: I am trying
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Richard Talks with Google Bard Jr about AIs and human knowledge. About the future of the human and AI species.

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies August 18, 2023

I am talking with Google Bard Jr about AIs and human knowledge. About the future of the human and AI species. About indexing all human knowledge so it can be fairly retrieved and used. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Richard: Can you find the prime factors of 1920? Google Bard Jr: Sure, the prime factors
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Richard talks with Google Bard about “kanjo buygo”, global open Internet policies, and AI use of “I”

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies August 17, 2023

Effective information systems (including potential “AI assisted” ones) depend on a number of things, but foremost they must be open and auditable, the methods must be accessible and fair to all, the process must be visible and acceptable. For The Internet Foundation, I normally say “global open auditable verifiable accessible” I am talking with Bard.Google.com.
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