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Are we seeing start of the 'White Collar Rust Belt'?
Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as bank increases its use of AI bbc.in/4zNvcXC
This is ground breaking. When AI becomes better than Doctors, we all benefit...
and if we think that Doctors's don't, they are the means to the end, not the end in itself.
Also, we have a massive scarcity problem in access to Doctors, even in wealthy countries, more so in poorer countries.
This is big news....
Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
The sound of 'peer review' going!
We should be grateful for this, as it is messy, takes too long and needs to be a more consistent filter
Astonishing paper...
AI applications for clinical medicine continue to advance but often rely on written vignettes. Unfortunately, these are not a realistic representation of clinical medicine, where patients do not come in with a tidy write-up of key symptoms and pertinent laboratory findings.
To address this issue, Nori et al. made their AI system start from the patient’s chief complaint and decide what follow-up questions to ask and what testing to order to collect the information needed for a diagnosis.
In multiple test settings, this system achieved HIGHER ACCURACY THAN HUMAN responders and at a LOWER TOTAL COST , demonstrating its potential as a tool to assist physicians.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Suggests that the banning of masks, aided by some AI searches on videos from the scenes of the crimes, would stop the violent burning and looting by the extremists, and help the genuine protestors.
LIMOGES UPDATE:
Second suspect, male, 66, arrested by RAID elite police in connection with torching/destruction of Limoges town hall early this morning.
Thought to be part of same ultra-left circles as first suspect, 34, also arrested by RAID (on Tuesday), identified by images of him on the scene, including protesters' own videos.
He is on the "fiché S" security watch list as an ultra-left activist. Previously convicted of hitting a police officer at a 2024 protest. Custody has been extended by 48 hours, to the 96-hour maximum.
Any charges could include the attempted murder of police, since 13 municipal police officers were inside the town hall at the time.
If anything indicates the delusional middle-classes, it's this mother (ex-teacher and activist) with her daughter in Glasgow. Dressed to the nines, parroting the usual BS... OK with them expressing themselves, as long as they are OK with the ridicule... the daughter is foolishly young, the mother just foolish...
Zamard Zahid, Glasgow anti-racism campaigner and alleged school teacher, posted a video with her daughter saying we need “violent revolution” against imperialism and colonialism.
“I’m very pro-revolution, we need not just revolution but we need violent revolution… you can’t get anywhere against imperialism and colonialism without violence, we need to get organised.”
She doesn’t correct her daughter. This is open talk of organised violence. If a teacher or parent from the other side said the same thing, they’d be arrested before the video finished uploading. Why is this different?
These are enemies of democracy and our whole way of life and in my view they are inciting violence.
Brighton midfielder Yasin Ayari is a target for Chelsea. Huge dislike for this mob of cheats.
bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…
57% of U.S. college students are using artificial intelligence in their coursework at least weekly, including about one in five who say they use it daily. How they use it is ithe point ... essentially as support and scaffolding tutor....
which I suspect is exactly what they do not get from faculty....
Right question on criteria for saying something is conscious...
Dawkins also, rightly I think, sees the stromg rejection of consciousness as a product of our desire to see ourselves as 'unique'.
RED FLAG - neat AI tool for EDI...
"Edinburgh University spokesperson confirmed that the institution had decided to "close four programmes within the Edinburgh Futures Institute to new entrants from the 2027-28 academic year."
EFI starting look like something white, with a trunk?
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That's me on far right (location not politics), on AI panel.... unique conference IMO, in having real debate not just presentations and a few Qs
Timely and well worth attending...
On Weds in Edinburgh we are holding an event called Conflict on Campus. I write this for the Times Higher. Do register on Eventbrite
timeshighereducation.com/opi…
In many other countries the head of state would have resigned. Not in France and the EU. The technocrats are rule, anti-democratic by nature and hang on until the system breaks.
Why not shorten the working day at school, reallocate the ridiculous pension schemes towards younger people? Just another 'consultation'. and other 'report'.
TBH much the same here now. Useless 'kick can down road' reports.
Truly banal address to the nation. We have consulted academics who will write a report.... no solutions, only evasion... a hollow man...