Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

The new version di MidJourney, version 5, is out and as you can expect is way better than the previous version (although it still creates hands with … 6 fingers but only sometimes). Look at the figure of that nice girl. The resolution is impressive, the light effect are also …

FlightAware  is a global flight tracking platform that started operation in 2005. It uses ADS-B – Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast- to track airplanes (every airplane sends a radio signal for tracking purposes) and over 1,000 receiving stations that are mostly operated by  private people. On these data (and several others …

Artificial Intelligence is an integral part of Healthcare in most Countries. Most of the time it is not perceived since it is embedded in equipment. As of January 2023 the FDA has approved 520 AI based algorithms for use in healthcare, most related to medical images (like interpretation in radiology …

The area of Pharma has consolidated its approach and processes in the last fifty years as the tools for designing, testing (trialling) and commercialising new drugs adapted in synch with the regulatory framework. The time to market, measured from the idea of “discovering” a new drug to its commercial availability …

Yesterday  GPT-4 was released. Open Ai claims it goes beyond ChatGPT and from what I have seen I am just amazed. For sure it goes beyond my  capabilities. Take this example of question published on the GPT-4 homepage: Explain the plot of Cinderella in a sentence where each word has …

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere and it is so pervasive that is changing our lives, and even our sense of self. I  was reading an article on the Technocrat (MIT Technology Review) on the massive use of AI filter to alter our image on social media. It seems that over 600 …

I found it sad, but not surprising, that some people are using the advance in AI to steal money from people. A new wave of voice scams has hit the United States, and most likely several other Countries. It goes like this: The phone rings, you take the call and …

Who doesn’t know the discussion about who came first, the chicken or the egg. It seems even Aristotle looked at the problem (his solution, by the way, was wrong…). Nowadays evolution biology has a clear and scientifically sound answer: the egg came first (the Bible opted for the chicken…). Having …

A recent article on Futurism reports from a large four day work week trial in UK: workers are happy (not unsurprising…) and companies are happy too (more surprising) since productivity did not decrease, on the contrary it has improved in some cases. Obviously, not all jobs could be compressed in …

“A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest” I like this African proverb that aims at pointing out that whatever grabs our attention is not necessarily the most important, or significant, thing. We, human beings and most likely all life have been engineered by evolution to pay most …