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"The push to develop Artificial General Intelligence, or super-intelligent AI, that would be so powerful and
capable that we would see it as a “digital god."

Smh. How is this even a thing???

https://www.schumer.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8Opening%20Statement.pdf

Academic life tip: if you leave a browser tab open long enough on a preprint you plan to read, it becomes a journal article you plan to read.
US Covid = JN.1
Excellent in depth look at some of the extent research into the biology and pathology of Long Covid by @erictopol We REALLY need the potentially damaging effects of post Covid sequelae and the protective effect of vaccination on preventing this to be widely acknowledged https://open.substack.com/pub/erictopol/p/lighting-up-long-covid?r=11blfp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Lighting up Long Covid

An important new mechanistic study and a blitz of other reports that help our understanding

Ground Truths

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ai-in-medicine/

My conversation on the new Science Friday episode

From Scans To Office Visits: How Will AI Shape Medicine?

Scientists are testing artificial intelligence’s ability to read imaging results, make diagnoses, and more. Listeners call in.

Science Friday
It's 2024. Most of #bioinformatics is yet to come and the best we can offer future generations of scientists is idiosyncratic R-scripts, massive Nextflow pipelines and file formats such as FastQ? We have to do better.
I feel like we spend so much time on the fact Star Wars happens in a galaxy far far away that we don't talk enough about the long long ago bit

Some apps on here are offering AI/LLM for certain features such as entering an image description automatically.

If you are abled and sighted, please don't use these features.

If you are sighted and able to enter descriptions yourself, it would be better for the planet if you enter descriptions manually. Manual descriptions avoid anyone having to cause environmental damage.

So-called "AI" features damage the planet:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9

https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume

AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think

Generating one image takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone.

MIT Technology Review
rewatching the movie and why is Cap declaring "Avengers... Assemble!!" after they've already assembled, nobody likes someone who keeps asking after it's already done, Steve