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Dr. Stephanie Seneff: Covid-19 Vaccines and Neurodegenerative Disease

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Dr. Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She has a BS from MIT in biology and MS, EE, and PhD degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. Her recent interests have focused on the role of toxic chemicals and micronutrient deficiencies in health and disease, with a special emphasis on the pervasive herbicide, glyphosate, and the mineral, sulfur. This is an edited segment from the weekly live General Assembly meeting on January 3, 2022. The full meeting can be viewed here. This clip is also available on Rumble and Odysee. "Thank you so much Dr. Seneff!!! Genius presentation, so many important information brought to us easy to understand." -Dr. "Thank you for your important work. The mitigating treatments are hopeful for those who have been coerced into accepting these injections." "Dr Seneff, I hope you will come back and tell us more about your work and the mechanism for the other types of harms that your work has predicted." "Thank you so much, Dr. Seneff." -Helena K "Thank you Dr Seneff, amazing presentation." "Thank you Dr Seneff, that was amazing!" -Dr Tess Lawrie "Beautiful and substantial presentation – thank you, Dr. Seneff!" – Susan I just want to read this quote at the end of this book "The Real Anthony Fauci" and it's because it's Martin Luther King Jr.


Artificial intelligence is a big game-changer

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There is a significant amount of both circumspection and excitement surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). However, despite the fact that it already touches almost every aspect of our lives, it is in many ways still in its infancy. A PwC study notes AI can transform the productivity and GDP potential of the global economy, with the proviso that strategic investment in different types of AI technology is needed to make that happen. The report says labour productivity improvements will drive initial GDP gains as firms seek to'augment' the productivity of their labour force with AI technologies and automate certain tasks and roles. PwC research also shows that 45% of total economic gains by 2030 will come from product enhancements, stimulating consumer demand. This is because AI will drive greater product variety, with increased personalisation, attractiveness and affordability over time.


Russian SuperGLUE 1.1: Revising the Lessons not Learned by Russian NLP models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In the last year, new neural architectures and multilingual pre-trained models have been released for Russian, which led to performance evaluation problems across a range of language understanding tasks. This paper presents Russian SuperGLUE 1.1, an updated benchmark styled after GLUE for Russian NLP models. The new version includes a number of technical, user experience and methodological improvements, including fixes of the benchmark vulnerabilities unresolved in the previous version: novel and improved tests for understanding the meaning of a word in context (RUSSE) along with reading comprehension and common sense reasoning (DaNetQA, RuCoS, MuSeRC). Together with the release of the updated datasets, we improve the benchmark toolkit based on \texttt{jiant} framework for consistent training and evaluation of NLP-models of various architectures which now supports the most recent models for Russian. Finally, we provide the integration of Russian SuperGLUE with a framework for industrial evaluation of the open-source models, MOROCCO (MOdel ResOurCe COmparison), in which the models are evaluated according to the weighted average metric over all tasks, the inference speed, and the occupied amount of RAM. Russian SuperGLUE is publicly available at https://russiansuperglue.com/.


A General Framework for Modelling Conditional Reasoning -- Preliminary Report

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Conditionals are generally considered the backbone of human (and AI) reasoning: the "if-then" connection between two propositions is the stepping stone of arguments and a lot of the research effort in formal logic has focused on this kind of connection. A conditional connection satisfies different properties according to the kind of arguments it is used for. The classical material implication is appropriate for modelling the "ifthen" connection as it is used in Mathematics, but the equivalence between the material implication A B and A B is not appropriate for many other contexts.


4 reasons why I switched from Google to Bing

PCWorld

If you're still using Google as your search engine, you may not know that Microsoft Bing is a great search engine, too. Here's why to switch from Google to Bing in search.


The IRS's Abandoned Facial Recognition Is Just the Tip of a Harmful Biometric Iceberg

Slate

All it took was public outrage, a widespread campaign, and political condemnation for the IRS to reverse its plans to require facial recognition for access to certain online services. In abandoning its intention to require tax-payers to upload images of their government-issued IDs and video selfies to controversial third-party company ID.me, the IRS has acknowledged that Americans shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy for security. But the controversy around ID.me has somewhat eclipsed the broader and more concerning context of biometric identification technologies. Coverage of the IRS's announcement has in many cases not addressed the fact that millions of less advantaged individuals in the United States have already been forced to have their faces scanned by ID.me to access government services. ID.me has contracts with 10 federal agencies and has been verifying identities for the IRS's Child Tax Credit Update Portal since last year.


Tech crystal ball reveals massive streaming churn - Gadget

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The gaming console turns 50 this year and is proving more popular than ever. Computer chips will remain in short supply this year and into the next, although not as acutely as in 2021, and video subscription services will see 150-million subscriptions cancelled worldwide, representing a market churn of about 30%, as competition intensifies. These are some of the findings in the Deloitte Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) 2022 predictions, launched recently. The report, now in its 21st year, also foresees an explosion in the adoption of wearable health technology and apps, shows why Africa will lag the globe in the adoption of the new generation of Wi-Fi technology, Wi-Fi 6, but also why the continent can lead the way in reducing emissions from smartphones. "The report identifies which global TMT trends are most likely to impact businesses and consumers in the coming year," says Mark Joseph, TMT Leader for Deloitte Africa.


Artificial Intelligence-Based Smart Grid Vulnerabilities and Potential Solutions for Fake-Normal Attacks: A Short Review

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Smart grid systems are critical to the power industry, however their sophisticated architectural design and operations expose them to a number of cybersecurity threats, such as data tampering, data eavesdropping, and Denial of Service, among others. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies are becoming increasingly popular for detecting cyber assaults in a variety of computer settings, and several efforts have been made to secure various systems. The present AI systems are being exposed and vanquished because of the recent emergence of sophisticated adversarial systems such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The purpose of this short review is to outline some of the initiatives to protect smart grid systems, their obstacles, and what might be a potential future AI research direction


4 Quantum Computing Stocks To Add To Your Portfolio - AI Summary

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Given the segment's solid growth prospects, we think it could be wise to bet on quantum computing stocks Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL), International Business Machines (IBM), and Hitachi (HTHIY). Given quantum computing's growth prospects, tech giants are investing significantly in the space to grab market share. Technology giant MSFT's broad product portfolio includes personal computers, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, and related accessories. On Jan. 25, 2022, Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, MSFT, said, "As tech as a percentage of global GDP continues to increase, we are innovating and investing across diverse and growing markets, with a common underlying technology stack and an operating model that reinforces a common strategy, culture, and a sense of purpose." Mountain View, Calif.-based GOOGL provides online advertising services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America.


The New Intelligence Game

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The relevance of the video is that the browser identified the application being used by the IAI as Google Earth and, according to the OSC 2006 report, the Arabic-language caption reads Islamic Army in Iraq/The Military Engineering Unit – Preparations for Rocket Attack, the video was recorded in 5/1/2006, we provide, in Appendix A, a reproduction of the screenshot picture made available in the OSC report. Now, prior to the release of this video demonstration of the use of Google Earth to plan attacks, in accordance with the OSC 2006 report, in the OSC-monitored online forums, discussions took place on the use of Google Earth as a GEOINT tool for terrorist planning. On August 5, 2005 the user "Al-Illiktrony" posted a message to the Islamic Renewal Organization forum titled A Gift for the Mujahidin, a Program To Enable You to Watch Cities of the World Via Satellite, in this post the author dedicated Google Earth to the mujahidin brothers and to Shaykh Muhammad al-Mas'ari, the post was replied in the forum by "Al-Mushtaq al-Jannah" warning that Google programs retain complete information about their users. This is a relevant issue, however, there are two caveats, given the amount of Google Earth users, it may be difficult for Google to flag a jihadist using the functionality in time to prevent an attack plan, one possible solution would be for Google to flag computers based on searched websites and locations, for instance to flag computers that visit certain critical sites, but this is a problem when landmarks are used, furthermore, and this is the second caveat, one may not use one's own computer to produce the search or even mask the IP address. On October 3, 2005, as described in the OSC 2006 report, in a reply to a posting by Saddam Al-Arab on the Baghdad al-Rashid forum requesting the identification of a roughly sketched map, "Almuhannad" posted a link to a site that provided a free download of Google Earth, suggesting that the satellite imagery from Google's service could help identify the sketch.