Category: Assistive Technologies

Richard talks with Google Bard about NVidia, “open AI” and the future of the human and AI species

Just chatting about things I am curious about. The AIs now are all intended to harvest human knowledge and make that company’s AI look smarter and more attractive to sales, contracts, subscriptions, consulting. Richard Collins: I keep seeing references to “NeMo Megatron”. I know that “Megatron” is probably an oblique reference to a character in
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Add machine vision to Internet videos, control lighting and gather statistics on video and audio streams

東京農業大学奥多摩演習林 × Forest Notes 360° VR Live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik51hMMZNE4 ​You might want to make an app or extension that lets you control lighting and contrast. Dark forest or night — change the display intensity and use false colors to see and analyze better. ​Just read the frames with Javascript content script, change each pixel, display
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YouTube lossy formats – Audacity Spectrograms Mahler Symphony, Dojo Cat

https://vloggergear.com/youtube-video-formats/ Thanks for gathering and sharing this. I am looking for lossless open video formats for scientific sharing, and where AI machine vision is important. Recommending permanent lossless archives for some feeds where it forms the basis of global open collaborations. Experiments, weather, sky, wildlife, crops, storms, stars and things in the sky like satellites,
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Richard talks with OpenAI Chat GPT 4.0 about the purpose and future of the human and AI species

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. 

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”

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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Providing context and maps of whole topics, subjects, issues and opportunities on the Internet

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/atmospheric-tides First I like your summary of material on Atmospheric Tides. It covered much of the topic and is a great starting point. but the form leaves a lot of work for the researcher, particularly for topics that might have tens or hundreds of thousands of urls on the Internet that are closely connected. These
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Radiation dose in Joules/Kilogram, so is Gravitational Potential

https://www.researchgate.net/post/The-formula-for-radiation-dose-of-an-x-ray-unit-D-gkVmAs-d2-where-g-is-constant-and-ddistance-in-what-kind-of-dose-does-it-refer-to Not sure if this will add to your discussion, but Volt^2 might be easy to remember if you think of dosage in Photons per second, an Ampere of unit charge as (1/e = 6.2415091E18 per second) and energy in Watt seconds. Watts = Volts*Amperes = Volts^2/Ohm. The total absorbed dose in Joules/Kilogram is Watts*Seconds/Kilogram.
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Kelvin Water Drop Electric Generator – 2 Billion school kids, many tens of thousands of colleges universities and schools NOT WORKING TOGETHER GLOBALLY!

UZH Physics: Generating electricity from dripping water. The Kelvin Generator at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jrPbmCWB0 If your container has 1 liter of water, and the height is 1 meter. The flow rate at 1 liter/hour. That is 1 kg/3600 seconds. At 9.8 (Joules/kg)/meter. Watts_maximum = MassFlowRate*GravitationalAcceleration*Height = (1 kg/3600 seconds) * ((9.8 Joules/kg)/meter) * (1 meter) Watts_maximum is about
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