gene therapy “A startup called Silence Speaks provides AI-powered avatars turning spoken words into sign language in real time,” notes historian Paul Matzko. “Their first use is for announcements in noisy public spaces like train stations where cochlear implants don’t work well and in a context where human interpreters are …
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GOP Bill Introduced Denying Chinese Students Visas After China Instructs Them to Spy, Report Back Intelligence
Chinese college students here in America are spying for China. Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) introduced legislation that would block all Chinese nationals from studying in the U.S. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.). This is a no brainer. But don’t expect the Democrat …
“Mediator” Qatar Instructed Hamas to Keep the Hostages, U.S. Intelligence Officer Reports
Meanwhile, the press was reporting the mediators in Qatar were making efforts to negotiate the release of more than half the remaining hostages. This is a pattern including the alleged “financial payments” Qatar made to undermine efforts by Egypt and mediators in talks between Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire …
The Halo Effect And How It Affects Your Daily Life
The halo effect theory refers to a type of cognitive bias where our overall impression of someone influences what we think about … source
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Amazon is increasing use of in-house artificial intelligence tools to cut energy use
agricultural robot from Japanese company Inaho “AI-supported tools Amazon uses to monitor utility and building system performance in 120 of its sites globally will be expanded to more than 300 facilities by the end of the year,” reports Utility Dive. “The tools have helped identify water leaks, faulty energy meters …
The case for expanding the definition of intelligence
Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. For centuries, we’ve generally defined intelligence as the ability to solve problems quickly. But is that definition too narrow? What if intelligence isn’t just about …
When You Think For Yourself or Follow The Crowd
If you blindly support a thought, movement, person, or authority without ever questioning it, then you may have a herd mentality. source
Intelligence officials knew in early 2020 that Chinese lab leak caused COVID pandemic
A coronavirus. CDC: Dr. Fred Murphy & Sylvia Whitfield “The American media is doing its best to ignore the biggest news this week,” notes Alex Berenson: The fact that intelligence officials knew even in early 2020 that the coronavirus leaked from the Chinese lab where it was created. The U.S. …
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Revokes Security Clearances of Deep State Actors Including Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan
The “51 Spies Who Lied” overthrew the Republic, pure and simple. “One of the other reasons this is extremely important is because security clearances are a HUGE source of profit and revenue for these corrupt officials. Take away their access. Take away their ability to leak information. Take away their …
Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 20 as America cuts intelligence sharing with Ukraine
“Russia launched heavy aerial attacks on Ukraine for a second night Saturday after the United States stopped sharing satellite images with the Ukrainian government, officials said. At least 20 people have been killed,” reports the Associated Press: The U.S. decision to withhold intelligence and military aid came on the heels …
AI could supercharge human collective intelligence in everything from disaster relief to medical research
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine a large city recovering from a devastating hurricane. Roads are flooded, the power is down, and local authorities are overwhelmed. Emergency responders are doing their best, but the chaos is massive. AI-controlled drones survey the damage from above, while intelligent systems process satellite images and …
Our Intelligence Community Has Been Run By Delusion-Riddled Deviants
According to reporting by Chris Rufo and Hannah Grossman at City Journal, employees of the National Security Agency and other Intelligence agencies have been gathering on a work-related chatroom to discuss their transgender surgeries and kinky sex preferences. Now I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking: Wow! That’s a …
Trillions of viruses live inside you. Artificial intelligence is trying to identify them
SARS-CoV (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus), CDC “The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses that may send us to the grave,” reports the New York Times: But healthy people are rife with …
The Science of Human Intelligence
Richard J. Haier, et. al., The Science of Human Intelligence (second edition), Cambridge University Press, 2024, $64.99 (softcover) 423 pp. The Science of Human Intelligence (hereinafter SHI) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on human intelligence now available. It is lavishly and usefully illustrated, and includes hundreds of full …
*THIS* Mark Zuckerberg Ai Crypto Play Could Be BIG? Ai Companions
Don’t Sleep on THIS Mark Zuckerberg Inspired Ai Crypto Play Best Crypto Exchange to Buy & Trade Bitcoin: … source
How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Asia’s Economies — Global Issues
AI may widen inequality, but policymakers can counteract this with more effective social safety nets, reskilling programs, and regulations to promote ethical use of the technology. Credit: Chunip Wong/iStock by Getty Images via IMF Opinion by Tristan Hennig, Shujaat Khan (washington dc) Friday, January 24, 2025 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, …
Artificial intelligence is being used to communicate with animals
A prairie dog. By Steve Polkinghorne, Newton Abbot, CC BY 2.0, Link “Researchers are building an AI system that they hope will, one day, allow humans to understand the many languages that animals use to communicate with one another,” reports Axios: NatureLM is an AI language model that can already …
Inspiring Purposeful Change: Artificial Intelligence and Beyond
This is the second in a series of blogs about how you might set up for success in the face of rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence. You can read the first of these entries, here. Behavior change is hard. It’s even harder when the people on your team feel disconnected …
Robots with artificial intelligence may radically reduce need for weed-killer and pesticides, gutting crop-chemical industry
agricultural robot from Japanese company Inaho “After almost a century of deploying a more-is-more approach to chemical herbicides, the global agricultural sector is rapidly rolling out advancements that promise to curb the use of weed-control sprays by as much as 90%. Using artificial-intelligence powered cameras, the new sprayers can identify …
Redefining Intelligence: Exploring Dynamic Relationships as the Core of AI
As someone who’s been working from first principles to build innovative frameworks, I’ve been exploring a concept that fundamentally challenges traditional notions of intelligence. My work focuses on the idea that intelligence isn’t static—it’s dynamic, defined by the relationships between nodes, edges, and their evolution over time. I’ve detailed this …
