Technology

ChatGPT Is Cheaper In Medicine And Does Better Diagnoses Even Than Doctors Using ChatGPT

General medicine, routine visits and such, have gradually gone from M.D.s to including Osteopaths and now Physicians Assistants with no decline in quality, and Large Language Models, colloquially called "Artificial Intelligence", like ChatGPT can ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2024 - 1:18pm

AI And The Poetry Problem

Artificial Intelligence is artificial, but it is not intelligence. That could change some day but it isn't happening soon, Large Language Models are fine for a few things but limited in most. That is why Ben Affleck can talk in a hurry and assure fell ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2024 - 2:29pm

Nanopesticides May Be In Our Organic Farming Future

Friends of the Earth and other litigation groups opposed to science are cheering the closure of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage salmon- the poster-child (decades of regulatory roadblocks) for how the US regulatory system is manipulated by lawyers to hold ba ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2024 - 2:56pm

My Most Important Column Ever

       This column deals with political opposition, resistance, and the future of the nation. It dissects the Trump-Musk financial bromance and the role of VP Vance. Bear with me to its end, then please comment pro, con, or in between. Shadow action ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Feb 11 2025 - 3:36pm

Summer Lectures In AI

Winter is not over yet, but I am already busy fixing the details of some conferences, schools, and lectures I will give around Europe this summer. Here I wish to summarize them, in the hope of arising the interest of some of you in the relevant events I wi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2025 - 5:12am

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Article - Fred Phillips - Mar 21 2025 - 12:03am

Sticky Pesticides Reduce Chemicals Needed To Protect Plants

It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose 78 percent of fruit, 54 percent of vegetables, and 32 percent of cereal crops. Most farmers want to optimize razor-thin margins ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2025 - 12:15pm

Recreating Technology: If You Landed On Another Planet, Could You Make A Toaster?

Just supposing, what if you landed on a planet a lot like Earth and, bereft of modern technology, had to try and rebuild something that looks like home?   You could survive, sure, a little trial and error would get you food and shelter. Creating fire can b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2025 - 12:36pm

Using AI To Find Neural Traits In Social Interaction

An algorithm that maps individual brain activity can reveal a “neural fingerprint” of  transient brain states during social interactions.  The authors of the new paper believe their work demonstrates that individuals whose neural fingerprints are more alig ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2025 - 9:40am

Fortified By Silk: Nutrients And Pesticides Get A New Targeted Approach

Greenpeace is in a longstanding campaign to oppose a public domain Golden Rice created by scientists so that it can be grown to create more Vitamin A and prevent blindness in children of poor countries. It is part of their long history of promoting claims ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 29 2025 - 1:19pm