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MOTHER JONES: Chinese EV Manufacturer BYD Quote: “Investors including Warren Buffett have bet that the company can extend its lead in electric car production—and the sale of batteries to rival carmakers.”

21 hours ago 21st March 2025 How Chinese EV Manufacturer BYD Hopes to Drive Tesla off the Road By offering a full charge in six minutes, for one. Advertise with Mother Jones The BYD booth at the 2025 Spring International Auto … Continue reading

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Source: The Deep View: AI for Good: Traumatic brain injuries: Quote: A recent, systematic, review of algorithmic approaches to TBI diagnosis found that “each algorithm has a strong ability to automatically identify and quantify important CT findings caused by TBI. (Personal comment before reading this I can vouch for another aspect. Researching family lore via Grok3 and it really fills in gaps I had never quite grasped). The speed of roll out of data incredible. If you are thinking of writing a book, take your headings and input to Grok3 AI …

AI for Good: Traumatic brain injuries Source: Unsplash Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often described as “the silent epidemic” for a simple confluence of reasons: a steady lack of awareness of and research into it, its widespread reach — impacting nearly 70 … Continue reading

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Europol warns AI is changing ‘DNA’ of organized crime

Europol warns AI is changing the ‘DNA’ of organized crime  Source: Unsplash We’ve been hearing about AI-accelerated fraud almost from the moment ChatGPT launched in November of 2022.  It comes in a lot of forms, ranging from deepfaked audio to deepfaked imagery … Continue reading

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Futurism: Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI

Controlled Opposition Mar 17, 4:05 PM EDTbyJoe Wilkins Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI Sick em, Big Brother. / Future Society/ Ai/ China/ Open AI Image by John MacDougall / AFP via Getty / Futurism A year or two ago, OpenAI was on … Continue reading

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New Atlas: Chatbots … acting as therapists. Quote: “If you’d made it this far, we’d like to know if you’ve had positive – or negative – experiences with chatbots. And if you haven’t, last year Psychiatric Times put forward a solid assessment of the functionality and value of the – as of now – four major chatbots, ChatGPT-4o, Microsoft’s CoPilot, Google’s Gemini and Claude. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s X chatbot Grok 3 is also making a name for itself – but not necessarily as a personalized life coach.

Chatbots are replacing therapists faster than anyone expected” By Bronwyn Thompson March 16, 2025 The cultural shift towards AI therapy highlights the challenges people face in accessing “traditional” mental health treatment  While we’re not short of divisive topics in 2025, there … Continue reading

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Big Think: The “existential crisis” of knowledge work

Business — February 27, 2025 The “existential crisis” of knowledge work Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking. Key Takeaways Eric Markowitz Copy a link to the article entitled http://The%20“existential%20crisis”%20of%20knowledge%20work Share The … Continue reading

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Fast Company Impact: … need more math, logic and grammar skills. Quote: “During middle school, students learn set definitions, notation, and representations (listing elements, Venn diagrams), set operations (union, intersection, difference, and complements), and relationships between sets (subsets, empty sets, disjointed sets, universal sets).”. Comment: ***Because of TBI and damage to Brocas, this is of interest to me and others who have suffered TBI

02-25-2025 IMPACT COUNCIL Why today’s youth need more math, logic, and grammar skills To develop and optimize AI use, our educational system needs to promote these basics. [Photo: Getty Images] BY Rodrigo Magnago5 minute read Share The Fast Company Impact Council … Continue reading

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How to inoculate yourself (and others) against viral misinformation. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How to inoculate yourself (and others) against viral misinformation By Sara Goudarzi | February 24, 2025 Exposing people to a weakened or inactivated strain of misinformation can help them build up cognitive resistance. (Bulletin illustration adapted from Suat Gürsözlü / Vadim Gannenko / depositphotos.com)Share … Continue reading

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New Atlas: Use it or lose it: The human brain will be reshaped by AI. Comment: As a person with TBI, short-term memory problems, amnesia, spatial impact proved to be a real problem for me. I found an explanation thanks to this woman Professor Eleanor Maguire (Taxi drivers in London). See details below

Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54. “In 2000, the cognitive neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire published the study that would bring her worldwide fame. It showed that a brain region called the posterior hippocampus was larger in … Continue reading

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Education is no load especially now. A name to keep in mind is Peter Thiel. Check out Palantir below; this is a need to know. Source: X

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics 3rd February 2025 Palantir Technologies: The Future of USAID? Earlier today, we made the claim that, “in coordination with Musk’s X, which will collect unprecedented amounts of data, Peter Thiel’s Palantir will run the data analytics and … Continue reading

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