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Have you ever wanted to build your own personal assistant, like the ones seen in movies like “Iron Man”? Well, it is now possible to create your own version of a JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System) using Python and Arduino, along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques. This tutorial will guide you through the process of building your own JARVIS, step by step.

and significant disruptions, but the upsides can be so amazing that it’s well worth overcoming the great challenges to get there.

Has Google Created Sentient AI? ➡ https://youtu.be/BSAxfCKFcMI

Many are worried about the rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.). Could A.I. become sentient (able to perceive or feel things)? Are we building machines that can become smarter than us? Are we playing god? What does that mean for how we look at these machines? Will A.I. overtake humans sooner than we think? Dr. Jeffrey reacts to these claims from Joe Rogan and Sam Harris in this video from Help Me Understand.

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Google has recently released its new AI model, PaLM, which is reported to be three times larger and more powerful than ChatGPT. Developed in April, PaLM is powered by Google’s TPU hardware, marking it as a…

Many are worried about the rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.). Could A.I. become sentient (able to perceive or feel things)? What does that mean for how we look at these machines? An ex-google engineer has claimed that Google has actually created a sentient AI. Dr. Jeffrey reacts to these claims in the video from Help Me Understand.

Dr. Thomas R. Jeffrey is both the host for Help Me Understand as well as a professor at Campbellsville University. His research centers around the uses and implementation of artificial intelligence.

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Jeff Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. He received an A.B. from Bowdoin (1973), and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis (1980) where he worked for 30 years before moving to Cambridge (2004). He is a member of Harvard’s newly established Center for Brain Science. Jeff’s research interests revolve around the question of how mammalian brain circuits are physically altered by experiences, especially in early life. He has focused on the dramatic re-wiring of neural connections in early postnatal development. More recently his research has focused on developing new electron microscopy methods to map the entire wiring diagram of the developing and adult brain. One of the principal aims of this “connectomics” approach is to uncover the ways information is stored in neural networks.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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In this episode, Emad and Peter discuss everything from AI-generated content and property rights to ethical implications, along with the upcoming hyper-disruption wave of technology in all industries.

Emad Mostaque is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stability AI, a company funding the development of open-source music-and image-generating systems such as Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion.

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Robots are moving up in the world. Labor shortages and rising wage costs are breathing life into a new generation of robots that can handle a growing number of tasks, from delivering pizza to sorting prescription drugs, fixing a tire or providing room service in a hotel.

After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, all bets were off for live musicians who played in movie theaters. Thanks to synchronized sound, the use of live musicians was unnecessary — and perhaps a larger sin, old-fashioned. In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched a scathing ad campaign to fight the advance of this terrible menace known as recorded sound.

The evil face of that campaign was the dastardly, maniacal robot. The Music Defense League spent over $500,000, running ads in newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. The ads pleaded with the public to demand humans play their music (be it in movie or stage theaters), rather than some cold, unseen machine. A typical ad read like this one from the September 2, 1930 Syracuse Herald in New York:

Tho’ the Robot can make no music of himself, he can and does arrest the efforts of those who can.