When AI popped into educators’ awareness a year ago, many math teachers panicked: with AI able to solve math problems for students on demand, what would be the point of assigning homework – or what would be the point of teaching math at all?
Category: 14 November 2023
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NEWSPAPERS ARE THE LATEST TO ACCUSE AI DEVELOPERS
The News Media Alliance (NMA), a trade group of more than 2,000 newspaper publishers, has released research they say shows that AI developers rely more heavily on copyrighted newspaper stories in training their AIs than they do on generic content randomly taken from the web.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
This past week saw several by turns startling and ominous signs of an ongoing, largely unheralded War For Natural Humanity, as I have named it in my three volume series culled from content mostly written for The Trends Journal.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
IRS proposed crypto reporting regulations treat cryptos far differently than other asset classes. The regulations seemed designed to damage crypto adoption in the U.S., says Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange operating there.
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DARKBLOCK SHOWING HOW NFTS CAN BE THE KEY TO WEB3
As an author and content creator who has long dealt with a few major distribution platforms for my creative work, I have been keeping close tabs on web3 development.
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ANTIBIOTIC “WARHEAD” KILLS LYME BACTERIA
Lyme disease is rampant, with 14 percent of the world’s adults having or having had the illness, according to BMJ, a British publisher of medical journals.
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NEW RECYCLABLE PLASTIC HEALS ITSELF AND CAN FEED SEA LIFE
Working with a plastic called epoxy resin vitrimer, researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a new kind of plastic that is plastic-strong at room temperature, repairs itself when cut, breaks down into its recyclable ingredients when heated, and dissolves in seawater into edible material that can nourish marine life.
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MASSIVE STUDY FINDS NEW KINDS OF BRAIN CELLS
Twenty-one teams of scientists around the world have collaborated to make the most detailed catalog yet of human brain cells.
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THE ISRAEL EXCEPTION TO FREE SPEECH
Last Tuesday there took place a disgraceful display of visceral malignancy in the United States House of Representatives Chamber in the south wing of the Capitol building.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
What a difference a month makes. The U.S. equity market continues its November spike.