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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$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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Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil If existing desalination plants were set up to extract salt from the brine to sell it, they would cause a free fall in global salt prices. https://pic.x.com/y6vbo5yswy Replying to @cremieuxrecueil The cost of a basic commodity goes lower. And reduced dependence on mined lithium. It would not happen overnight. You have to run the
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Smart Biology @SmartBiology3D In most biology classrooms each student can have their own interpretation for how things work especially with systems and processes. Our animated lessons bring those to life exactly the way they happen so everyone is on the same page with understanding. http://smart-biology.com https://pic.x.com/iipz9uwmge So when you make mistakes, and give inefficient approaches
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Can the Google AI search for a topic in all human languages and all domain specific languages (DSL)? So concepts or methods in one DSL can be found in different contexts or many different scales and situations? For instance, the models for neutron stars also work for gluon equation of state in accelerators and cosmic
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Galactic Scifi: Earth’s Daughter Shocked the Galactic Campus in Ways No One Could Have Predicted! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLxORPHg6w Perhaps you might write stories about humans, in their infinite varieties, working together in a larger Universe. There are big and small humans. Humans of many sizes, colors of hair, eyes and shapes. Voices or no voice, blind
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Alien Historian After Humans Prove Him Wrong! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63heuMKFCeI Thank you. I do not know who wrote this, or who is narrating. Can you give details in the video description? There is no $Thanks or I would buy you a cup of coffee. Good stories, but I think the story of the author and narrator
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