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Machines may be better at assisting, not replacing us.

Journalist Kawandeep Virdee sees if he can be replaced by AI by writing some predictions for 2024. "I gave ChatGPT the last 13 years of Nieman Lab predictions ... [and asked it what I'd write about in 2024]" [ChatGPT suggested] Navigating the infodemic: Strategies for media in the era of misinformation...
Source: niemanlab.org

AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search

A new generation of artificial intelligence-based information access systems, which includes Microsoft’s Bing/ChatGPT, Google/Bard and Meta/LLaMA, is upending the traditional search engine mode of search input and output. These systems are able to take full sentences and even paragraphs as input and...
Source: ampproject.org

Spem in alium nunquam habui (Hope in any other, never did I have)

This piece of music is probably like nothing you have ever heard. Maybe because it is nearly 500 years old it feels like it is from another world. Maybe because it is written for eight choirs with five voices each the forty parts it's so complex you'd be pressed even to hum some of the tune afterwards....
Source: wikipedia.org

Mars rover Perseverance takes first spin on surface of red planet

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has taken its first, short drive on the surface of the red planet, two weeks after the robot science lab's picture-perfect touchdown on the floor of a massive crater, mission managers said on Friday.
Source: reuters.com

Rashomon approach to medical education.

"The Rashomon approach was named after the 1950 film, Rashomon. In this film, a single event, a homicide is described from the different perspectives of the characters. In the Rashomon approach, teachers, like film directors, need to fully understand the big pictures so that they can engage characters = students...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Using whale songs to image beneath the ocean

Using whale songs to image beneath the ocean’s floor: Seismic data generated by whale songs helps build a picture of the ocean's base. "The song of a fin whale is not exactly the sort of thing you'd typically describe as musical. It's generally in the area of 20Hz, which sounds more like a series of...
Source: arstechnica.com

Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E.

Ever wondered what an armchair in the shape of an avocado might look like? Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E. Does this help with accessibility by explaining things in pictures from written words? Does it risk replacing humans in the creative industry with machines? "DALL·E: Creating Images from...
Source: openai.com

APOD: 2020 August 11 - Churning Clouds on Jupiter

"Pictured by Juno, churning clouds on Jupiter show not only mesmerizing complexity but some high-level, light-colored pop-up clouds. Understanding atmospheric dynamics on Jupiter gives valuable perspective to similar atmospheric and lightning phenomena that occur on our home Earth."
Source: nasa.gov

My next Tweet could be generated by a deep-learning neural network.

blog post image My next tweet could be generated by a deep-learning neural network. I've been training one. Would anyone notice the difference? Could I just hand over tweeting to my machine? Method: downloaded the last 3200 Tweets that I posted using allmytweets.netpruned the dates off and removed the RTs by using some...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon

Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon on New Year's Day.
Source: bbc.com

It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t: A new study helps explain the myth.

It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t: A new study helps explain the myth. "Consistent with past research on learning styles, the participants’ preferred learning style (verbal or pictorial) was not related in any way to how well they recalled the pairs...
Source: bps.org.uk

Using a videogame to facilitate nursing and medical students' first visit to the operating theatre. A randomized controlled

Using a videogame to facilitate nursing and medical students' first visit to the operating theatre. A randomized controlled trial. - PubMed - NCBI "A videogame was developed, combining pictures and short videos, by which students are interactively instructed on acting at the surgical block. Moreover,...
Source: nih.gov

In pictures: What being a doctor in Wales means to me - BBC News: Doctors in Wales were set a photography challenge to portray

In pictures: What being a doctor in Wales means to me - BBC News: Doctors in Wales were set a photography challenge to portray their lives.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Responding to social media posts with pictures of a cute hedgehog in a hat. When you see a post and don't quite know what

Responding to social media posts with pictures of a cute hedgehog in a hat. When you see a post and don't quite know what to say then perhaps the only option is to respond with a picture of a hedgehog in a hat. After all isn't that why the internet was invented? First of all the social media machine...
Source: tineye.com

Good read. The most good you can do by Peter Singer. This is about effective altruism. If you are going to give away your

Good read. The most good you can do by Peter Singer. This is about effective altruism. If you are going to give away your money how can ensure you give it to the most effective resources? More than that if you've decided to give away money what is the best job that you can do? There are some extreme...
Source: amazon.co.uk

APOD: 2016 March 20 - A Picturesque Equinox Sunset

APOD: 2016 March 20 - A Picturesque Equinox Sunset
Source: nasa.gov

Are Farmers Being Deliberately Misled About Badger Culls?: Politicians, farmers leaders, and particularly veterinarians,

Are Farmers Being Deliberately Misled About Badger Culls?: Politicians, farmers leaders, and particularly veterinarians, should know better. (picture from Wikipedia)
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk