Passwordless Google accounts are here—you can now switch to passkey-only | Ars Technica
May 12, 2023Cholesterol and dementia | Alzheimer’s Society
May 12, 2023https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-and-prevention/cholesterol-and-dementia
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A meta-analysis is a study that looks at lots of previous studies and analyses all of the data together to increase the number of people studied and to look at the information in a consistent way. A meta-analysis looking at observational studies investigating statins and the risk of dementia looked at data from 11 studies, involving over 23,000 participants, who had been taking statins for between 3 and nearly 25 years on average. When all of the data was analysed together, the researchers found that those people taking statins had a 29 per cent reduced risk of developing dementia.
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‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead – The New York Times
May 12, 2023interesting news about Hinton
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
Chart: The Evolution Of Human Space Flight | Statista
May 12, 2023https://www.statista.com/chart/24604/number-of-people-launched-into-space-by-year/
was used for:
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Genomics-n-DataSci-ENTEX-variant-interpretation–20230509-i0stj/
How to Get Google’s New AI Tool to Write Your Emails
May 10, 202335 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now – The New York Times
May 7, 2023https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html?name=styln-artificial-intelligence®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=undefined
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Organize a messy computer desktop.
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I basically just gave ChatGPT a directory, a list of all my folder names, and the names of all my files.
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Write a wedding speech.
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“A few hours before, I said, ‘Can GPT-3 write this officiant speech?’” he recalled. “The first version was generic, full of platitudes. Then I steered it.”
Adam is a great lover of plants
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Write Excel formulas.
Create new proteins in minutes.
Play with language.
….It’s particularly helpful for bizarre acronyms, like this: Please tell me the words I could use to create the acronym ‘BIBERE’ to identify an organization dedicated to getting together after work to hit the bar — without saying we’re going to the bar in a workplace email.
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Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets | The Economist
May 6, 2023https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/19/how-generative-models-could-go-wrong How generative models could go wrong
A big problem is that they are black boxes
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/19/large-language-models-ability-to-generate-text-also-lets-them-plan-and-reason How generative models could go wrong
A big problem is that they are black boxes
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/20/how-to-worry-wisely-about-artificial-intelligence
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