Generative AI is still making the headlines, even though as I observed in a previous post it is not something that we would normally qualify as “intelligent”. Sure the results delivered are amazing and may look like the product of intelligence, however, if you know how Generative AI does its …
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Ever hummed a tune in your head? I bet you have. Hence, you should agree that somewhere, somehow, your brain has recorded and stored that tune and it is able to play it back … on demand. Now the question is: could it be possible to let other people hear …
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Bubbles in the financial markets are not something related to the Internet age. The first financial bubble that I am aware of happened in 1634 blowing out in 1637. It was the first time that financial tools like edging and futures. The very first “flippers” appeared, buying on paper to …
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CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The bold part is what matter in this post. Over the years I got progressively more and more annoyed by CAPTCHA, more and more as they became more and more complicated. Add to this the fact that my …
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Ever looked at the result of some medical exams and wondered what does that mean? I am not talking about the chicken scratch of some doctors (many, most …) but to the nicely printed result you get from a medical lab. Those long list of unknown words, and even more …
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There are plenty of medicines out there. The problem is that they not always work as expected with a specific patient. This is disappointing but is not surprising. Drugs are tested on thousands of people (after having been cleared for human testing) and will make their way to commercialization if …
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There are plenty of satellites circling the planet and some of them are equipped with tools to look at the Earth surface with a very good resolution (see the image). A company in the UK, Aspia Space founded in 2021, is leveraging on the data harvested by those satellites and using …
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8. The future of shopping Retail store profitability is at an all time low. The competition from on-line shopping has put out of business thousands of stores (45 retail chains in the US went bankrupt in the last three years) and drastically decreased the EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes) …
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5. The future of video entertainment That the entertainment business is facing new opportunities and challenges is demonstrated by the rising concern of actors and workers in the entertainment sector. The ongoing protest and strike in Hollywood is a testimony. The July 2023 Wired magazine is focussing on the Future …
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AI DISCLOSURE: The Office of Assemblyman Clyde Vanel is actively exploring new ways to enhance government efficiency and draft better laws. This bill and its memo were researched and written by artificial intelligence, with the accuracy and language reviewed and refined by humans. This disclosure will appear on every …
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