Meta Platforms is preparing to release LLaMA, its no-charge large language model AI to compete with ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
AI: TEACHERS’ NEW BEST FRIEND
Schools may have doubts about students using AI in their schoolwork, but teachers have made chatbots their new classroom utility players.
GOOGLE READIES CHATBOT TO ANSWER YOUR MEDICAL QUESTIONS
Google is testing Med-PaLM2, its chatbot that will be able to answer common medical questions.
HUMAN CREATORS DEMAND PAYMENT FROM AI DEVELOPERS
Major AIs – ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Stable Diffusion, image creator Dall-E, and others—learned by ransacking the Internet and internalizing its contents. Now it uses that content to create original essays, news stories, pictures, and other works.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
At this point in the stock market game, it’s all about interest rates.
In the U.S., the bet on The Street is that following the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday, there is a 98-percent probability that the central bank will raise interest rates 25-basis points, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
GLYPHOSATE AND GENE-EDITED POPLARS (AND MAYBE PEOPLE) GOOD FOR THE EARTH, SAY CLIMATE ACTIVISTS
Altering the natural genetics of trees and increasing the use of glyphosate might not strike many sensible people as “environmentally friendly.”
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
As we had long forecast, the higher central banks raise interest rates, the lower the Merger and Acquisition trend… which hit record highs at the height of the COVID War in 2021 when interest rates sank and governments pumped in countless trillions to artificially prop up sinking economies.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
The value of exports from China fell 12.4 percent in June, year over year, to $285 billion after declining 7.5 percent in May, The Wall Street Journal reported.
BANK OF CANADA RAISES INTEREST RATES TO 22-YEAR HIGH
Once again, the Bank of Canada (BoC) raised its key interest rate by a quarter point, moving it from 4.75 to 5.0 percent in the wake of second-quarter consumer spending that was stronger than predicted.









