AI and tools like ChatGPT and Bing Assistant, Claude etc. may have changed the way we work in many industries. I just recently found that asking obscure programming questions give some surprisingly useful or halfway working responses in Microsoft Bing assistant. But will it be what some consider an AGI – a general intelligence to match human thought or ingenuity?
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Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected by the recent storms on the US West coast. Recently some live streams have highlighted the good work by the ham radio repeater operators and emergency nets:
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The Panhandle preparedness expo is coming up next weekend! What will you find at the preparedness expo?
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If you have been participating in Summer of Math Exposition voting, remember this is the last full day of voting for the phase-2 voting portion of the contest!
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In recent years some voters have been increasingly unsatisfied with two-party systems in USA. In 2016, neither of the two party candidates could get a majority of votes of the American people. In 2000, one third party candidate ended up making a big difference in the total, because as in most voting systems, one can only vote for one person for each position.
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Earlier this month, both AT&T and Verizon had a texting and calling cell phone outage – even the FCC noted that this was happening in multiple states! Similar issues have happened in February and at other times. In the recent New Mexico, 29 out of 113 cell towers were down and this is a common issue among areas with natural disasters. This highlights the need for other channels of communication, even when you are in town and normally have a working cell phone:
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SOME (Summer of Math Exposition) is happening again this year – a contest without a big prize, but of course the winner is everyone when we build some new math posts and videos for students learning…
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In the recent article in The Atlantic, they make an interesting point – the web will likely be transformed by the junk that can be created by LLVMs and ChatGPT. This could be an increasing problem in the future, and I have seen some cases where current search engines give links to the “word salad” pages noted in the article.
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If you live in Oregon you may have seen one of these research papers mailed to you along with a short letter promoting Noah Robinson for Oregon senate. Since this report is claimed on the campaign website to be “the most widely read scientific review article on “climate change,” which shows that human use of hydrocarbon fuels like gasoline is not changing the earth’s climate“, and the data in the charts ends at about the year 2000 for many charts as of its publishing, I decided to get some more recent data to research the most recent trends:
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In early March a paper was published with details of a potential vulnerability that can spread across getAI systems. For example, a mailing assistant service could be set to send out something spammy.
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