Tag: AI
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AI: Addressing an Aging Population
in: Observation
The article “How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World” published in the New York Time, July 16, 2023 notes: The projections are reliable, and stark: By 2050, people age 65 and older will make up nearly 40 percent of the population in some parts of East Asia and Europe. That’s almost twice the…
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AI and the End of Humanity
There are many expressing concerns about the ascent of Artificial Intelligence and the effect on the arts, manufacturing, work, life styes, and more broadly on humanity [1]. At the nub of many of the concerns is the question whether a machine can be creative, or does creativity lie wholly within the human domain? I suspect…
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Firmware Updates
My “app” notified me that there was a firmware update for my bird feeder. So I dutifully downloaded and then installed it. The feeder has a camera and motion detector in it, controlled in part by firmware. The firmware also enables my feeder to connect through my home WiFi through the internet to the manufacture’s…
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Mushroom Soup Diary
Many years ago, 44 maybe, I thought it would be a good idea to start a diary. I don’t recall why I thought it would be a good idea. My first entry was a recipe for cream of mushroom soup. It was also my last entry. Since then, I have blogged. Recently I have been…