Is AI bot Gemini woke?

 In breaking news, AI has discovered a "profound" moral dilemma:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13127549/google-ai-nuclear-apocalypse-misgender-caitlyn-jenner.html

Retiree medical cost increase

 

 gardner6 said...

Anyone know when the retiree's medical was last increased? I've asked empyrean, UC and LLNS. They either say they have no idea or point to each other as being responsible. Any information?
Thanks.

Disgruntled scientist

Warning: the video is very long. 

 This is a good video -- it is by a disgruntled scientist who gives his unvarnished opinion on the state of science, and the world:

https://youtu.be/p_swB_KS8Hw?si=Mjxzl6YbYtZHiMKF

Who will it be in 2026?

 Will the NNSA go for the “low hanging fruit” and select a Triad National Security 2.0 to manage LLNL in 2026? This is essentially what the NNSA did in 2006 and 2007 with LANS and LLNS respectively, when these for-profit LLCs were selected to managed these two Labs.

Are we taking nuclear threat seriously?

 Https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/02/23/taking_nuclear_war_seriously_1013900.html

We warned that the greatest threat to the United States was a nuclear attack in an American city – likely by a terrorist group. We proposed a Department of Homeland Security capable of dealing with three simultaneous nuclear events. That would have been a department with the discipline and training we associate with military organizations or first-class fire departments.

As a sign of how little people understood the danger of nuclear weapons, the department degenerated into a bureaucratic mess of enormous incompetence. Today, it cannot cope with unarmed civilians at the border. It would likely be totally incapable of dealing with one (let alone three simultaneous) nuclear events.

AI and video creation

 Many people have already heard about this, I would assume, but there is a new AI technique that generates realistic video content, given only text prompts:

https://youtu.be/nYTRFKGR9wQ?si=1EfcxFhWQetZeXbm

This could revolutionize the movie and video game industries, content creation, and also make the metaverse a reality, of course.

Imagine doubling the processing power of your devices!

 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1035231

This might be hype, but it seems like great news if true -- we're getting several years worth of Moore's law type improvement's (a doubling every two to three years) for "free". Who said there is no such thing as a free lunch?

Maybe the growth of AI will exceed expectations!