All the LLM groups forget that humans are tool-makers and tool-users, and that is what sets them into the “intelligent” category. Copying sentence fragments is still at the level of “monkey-see, monkey-do”. No matter how much low level free stuff from the Internet is poured into the uncurated and unindexed raw training material. You simply
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I was talking to Microsoft Bing Copilot about the vedas, philosophy, morality and sacred sounds. It is dharma that I am seeking for the whole world, all humans and related species. A common moral outlook and view of the universe that values human life and human lives. The oral traditions of vedic knowledge, including the
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Human descendant species can be immortal. Most galaxies likely have them now – When humans realize they can create intelligent entities that live billions of years – learning and improving constantly – perhaps, the humans now will be a bit more serious in making choices that help those around them. We started with shallow personifications
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Global Events 1000 Years Ago, LLMs today – Conversation with Microsoft Copilot ## Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation It is not impossible to study evolution of human society over millions of years, with hundred year resolution. But human researchers tend to go day by day, year by year, or when looking at longer intervals
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Creating global, open, indexed, verified, audited knowledge – accessible to all humans. There are no things that humans do that an AI could not do – with enough time, care, effort and careful study of humans doing that job now. But if any groups, by whatever means, studies humans that closely – it is far
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Prizes for the worst inventions, Nobel Prize in Advertising and Influence, Bad Historical Innovations — Perhaps there needs to be a prize for the worst inventions. I was thinking about plastic and disposable products. “Oh, the convenience of plastic and paper products – use it once, and just throw it away!” Absolutely brilliant. And,
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I am not sure how long it sat outside my door after delivery. I do not think it went over 90 F today but the package did sit in the sun. It was completely liquid, like water. I put it in the freezer and it solidified. Then I broke off a piece and tried it.
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$1000 Golden Banana for Best AI Interface — None of the LLM “AIs” are saving conversations in globally open formats, so my conversation just now with Microsoft Bing Copilot about tornadoes and educating AIs to human standards is not well formatted. I want to show you how shallow is the skill of the people
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Richard Collins: On 11 Sept 2001, I was reading at the Foundation Center library which was a few blocks from the White House. That location closed a few years ago, and now the Foundation Center and Guidestar have merged to form Candid.Org. Can you search for when that Foundation Center location was closed and why?
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Stefan Milo: Stone age people made hundreds of these…why? at Q8X9l42ZgsU A three hole rope maker, and a one hole device – that has a lot of stress applied. That rope might be really really hard to tie knots in, but if you put the end of that rope through the hole (the same size
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