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THE BOOK NOOK: Deep behind the scenes of 9/11 – Niagara Gazette
You remember exactly where you were.
You were in your office, at home doing breakfast dishes, just getting out of bed, and at first, you didn't believe what you were seeing. It was not April Fool's Day, it was September 11, 2001, and these books commemorate the anniversary of that day ...
Though the images you saw that morning are probably seared in your mind, you'll still want to spend time reading "September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy" by journalists of the Associated Press (Sterling Publishing, $35). Packed with photos that are rarely seen, taken by professional photographers that fall morning, this book also includes a moment-by-moment timeline and hundreds of recollections from the men and women whose job it was to chronicle what happened. But this book takes things further: you'll read here about the weeks after September 11, 2001, and how everything changed forever.
Also with a timeline this one wider and longer is "On That Day: The Definitive Timeline of 9/11" by William M. Arkin (PublicAffairs, $18.99). This book takes readers much deeper behind the scenes, in the White House, near the Pentagon, and in the air above, and it's not necessarily good news. Unique about this book is that readers don't usually see such in-depth, government-based reporting on September 11 and the days afterward.
Another little-known story can be learned in "The Lives They Saved" by L. Douglas Keeney (Lyons Press, $26.95). Here, you'll read about the kind of heroism that you might have missed: on the day of the attack on the Twin Towers, people who lived and worked in Manhattan needed to evacuate from the area, fast. But how do you get large numbers of people out when many escape routes were blocked? The question is answered in documents and interviews that have been declassified: boat owners, medics, and others who knew the waters around Manhattan came together to shuttle some 300,000 people off the island and to safety. It became the largest boat-lift in history, larger than any other boat-lift in any war, and it happened in one single day. It's a powerful story, perfect for understanding this seminal event.
And finally, there are two generations that won't remember 9/11, either because they were babies then or because they weren't even yet born. For them, there's "I Survived The Attacks of September 11, 2001: The Graphic Novel" by Lauren Tarshis, art by Corey Egbert (Scholastic, $10.99). This is the fictional story of a young boy who struggles with a decision his parents made that he doesn't agree with. He needs to talk things over with his beloved uncle, who works at a firehouse in Manhattan, but shortly after he arrived, something happened that was unimaginable. Meant for kids ages 7-and-up, this book will be a quick read for any young adult who likes graphic novels.
If you'd like more information, you'll find plenty of information on September 11, 2001 at your local bookstore or library. In the meantime, these great books will help you remember ...
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How 7 years of dirt is deep cleaned from mattresses – Insider
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Jon Bristol: My name is Jon Bristol, and I'm from Trinidad and Tobago. I'm the director of Super Fresh, and today I'm going to show you how we clean very dirty mattresses as well as the average dirty ones. So, a typical process of cleaning a mattress is we spray on an enzyme-based cleaner, and that will break down the dirt and the body oils and, you know, the incidents. And we give that chemical some time to work. After that, there's some agitation, also known as scrubbing, and in the final stage of the process, we use the extractor, and that would spray on a solution of clean water, fabric shampoo, and deodorizer and vacuum at the same time. So it rinses away everything, so there isn't any harsh chemicals left to interfere with anyone's skin or anything afterwards. There's going to be a lot of dust buildup over time. There's going to be hair. If there are a lot of kids in your home, you're going to find urine, even if the client doesn't know. Sometimes, you know, some people eat on their beds and stuff, so you find crumbs from various foodstuff. All right. So, I actually had no idea what to expect when coming to do this job. And I'm still not entirely sure what caused it. It may have been some flooding in the area, but I'm not sure. So that was probably more than five years for sure. So, right here, I am spraying on the enzyme-based cleaner onto the mattress, and I'm looking to see the areas where I may have to apply another coat as we go along. What I use right now, it's a synthetic enzyme. I could use it for everything, but there are some stains that would require additional chemicals if you really want to get them removed visually. But the most important thing for most clients is getting the actual thing that caused the stain out. So we say there may not be a visual improvement, but you can be sure that you're getting all the nasties out. They're usually just regular buildup, so just regular dust and dirt that accumulate over the years. Some clients don't use a full three-piece sheet set. A lot of clients don't have mattress protectors either. Using heat is beneficial because heat acts almost like a universal catalyst. So heat would help your chemicals to work faster, so it would help the enzyme cleaner to break down the stuff faster, and it will also help the fabric shampoo to latch onto the dirt particles faster. So it helps make the cleaning process more efficient. Unfortunately, there's no way to know for sure that you get 100% of it, but you want to know that you're picking up as much as possible. This mattress was especially dirty, so it's either, like, a lot of years, probably more than seven or so, or a lot of use. But I don't think it's any one thing, but just a combination of factors that leaves it to be that condition. I found that you could use a variable-speed polisher and a scrubbing-brush attachment. The brush is rotating at about 600 rpm. We use the softest brush available, because some fabrics are really delicate. And we use that to help break down the larger debris and stuff on the surface of the fabric. So it helps break down the larger pieces of debris, 'cause sometimes they have buildup that is really, really bad, and it's actually, like, caked up. The general process for removing stains is just to isolate where the stain is, and I may double-apply the enzyme-based cleaner to it or I may spend a little longer scrubbing it. I believe for this one the client told us it was probably about two years, and it wasn't too bad. It was just, like, a cream-ish color, but we know the original color was white, and so we sprayed it one time and we did the scrubbing. I mean, you'll always have the extreme. Some would be much, much darker brown. Some would be much more spotty. But the average person is just a little cream, just a little off-white from where it should be. For mattresses, you're usually going to get those kind of colors, because even below the surface, you still have a lot of debris. Your dead skin cells, your dirt, and your dust building up. So even if the top After a certain amount of years, your mattress significantly increases in weight simply due to the dust and dead skin cells that collect. So, one, it's going to be more uncomfortable. Two, if you're using it regularly, some of that is going to be entering the air. So you're going to have a lower-quality air inside the home. It may attract mites if there's a lot of moisture around. Just overall it's not going to be the best way of well-being. For people that are asthmatic, the buildup of dust could be a problem. For people with sensitive skin, any buildup on your mattress over time could pose a threat in the future in terms of having flare-ups. If you're taking only preventative measures, I don't think you should need to service more than, like, once a year. Get it cleaned and then get a mattress protector, because you can always wash that every fortnight or every month, and you're in a much better position than paying me. And I don't mind, but you're in a much better position for your own well-being.
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A therapy called rhythm that creates impact on the body and the mind – Onmanorama
New Delhi,: Believing that music is a divine art form, which when clubbed with spirituality can do wonders, Hindustani classical vocalist Lavanya Sundram, who has incorporated aspects of healing into her work, says, "Music is Naad Yog, and sound creates an impact on the body and the mind. A combination of different ragas, insightful lyrics and profound prayers that come from a deep connection with divinity creates tremendous energy and can be instrumental in healing frayed nerves."
Hailing from a family of musicians, Sundram started training for Carnatic vocal music when she was three years old. She performs Hindustani and Carnatic vocal music, Bhajans, Kirtans and Ghazals. She stresses that the feeling of love and peace is the essence in any kind of music. "And love is pure and divine. Be it any genre of music, I connect with my heart and sing with immense love, devotion and peace."
Although her training started very early, it was in grade IX that she started feeling very strongly towards music. Sundram's grandmother, her first guru, felt she should focus on vocals. "Later, I felt very strongly that music had an important role to play in my life and I must give back what I have inherited."
Looking back at her journey, she feels blessed to have had encouraging gurus. "They groomed me into a mature musician and teacher, and have taught me how to give and share. Lovely opportunities to learn and perform, compete and grow have come my way."
Talk to her about not enough platforms for young classical musicians to showcase their talent, and Sundram feels that music must be for the sake of music, and not as a means to achieve something else. "That is true sadhana. When one does this, immense opportunities come knocking for the artist to perform. This art form is not for entertainment I have always felt that one should keep focusing on taleem, keep growing and improving his/her."
Stressing that it was important to give all possible support to the classical arts, the vocalist, who was recently part of HCL Concerts' Baithak, says, "HCL is doing a commendable job by supporting and nurturing music. We definitely need more organisations to come forward."
For Sundram, the lockdown was a period to develop herself and introspect the role of music in her life. "As musicians, performing before an audience is an ecstatic feeling -- it keeps us alive and motivated. I have really missed the live concerts and I am eagerly looking forward to getting back."
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God’s mysterious riches, wisdom, and knowledge – Leawood – Church of the Resurrection
Daily ScriptureRomans 11:25-36
25 I dont want you to be unaware of this secret [or mystery], brothers and sisters. That way you wont think too highly of yourselves. A part of Israel has become resistant until the full number of the Gentiles comes in. 26 In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
The deliverer will come from Zion.He will remove ungodly behavior from Jacob.27 This is my covenant with them,when I take away their sins [Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34]
28 According to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but according to Gods choice, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors. 29 Gods gifts and calling cant be taken back. 30 Once you were disobedient to God, but now you have mercy because they were disobedient. 31 In the same way, they have also been disobedient because of the mercy that you received, so now they can receive mercy too. 32 God has locked up all people in disobedience, in order to have mercy on all of them.
33 Gods riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep! They are as mysterious as his judgments, and they are as hard to track as his paths!
34 Who has known the Lords mind?Or who has been his mentor? [Isaiah 40:13]35 Or who has given him a giftand has been paid back by him? [Job 41:11]36 All things are from him and through him and for him.May the glory be to him forever. Amen.
NOTE: Today we recall the terrible events of 9/11/01, 20 years ago, which made us painfully aware that the bitter divisions in our world have horrible results. It is a good day to ponder Pauls summary of Gods vision of the world. God has locked up all people in disobedience, in order to have mercy on all of them, he wrote. Left to ourselves, we tend to see the world in us and them terms. But God sees one human family, offers mercy to every one of Gods earthly children, and yearns for us to accept that offer. Which is why Paul closed with a great hymn of praise: Gods riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep!....May the glory be to him forever. Amen.
Reading all of Romans 9 11 this week should help us see why it doesnt work to read a fragment of 11:26 as a stand-alone conclusion. N. T. Wright pointed out, The question: how is God saving his whole people, Jew and Gentile alike? How is all Israel going to be saved (verse 26)? Many people find this puzzling. Surely, they say, all Israel must mean all Jewseither all Jews who have ever lived, or all believing Jews, or all Jews alive at the time of final salvation. But Paul himself has indicated otherwise.* And William Barclay wrote: Paul argues that there is more to Jewishness than descent from Abraham, that the chosen people were not simply the entire sum of all the physical descendants of Abraham.** Verse 32 returned to what Paul wrote in Romans 3:23-24, now applied more fully to the tension between Jewish and Gentile Christians.
Creating, redeeming God, your riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep! Thank you for a mind that can wrestle with hard questions, and for a heart that can trust you to know answers I cannot yet fathom. Amen.
* Wright, N.T., Paul for Everyone, Romans Part Two: Chapters 9-16 (The New Testament for Everyone) (p. 59). Westminster John Knox Press. Kindle Edition.
** William Barclay, Daily Study Bible Series: The Letter to the Romans (Revised Edition). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1975, p. 128.
*** Michael J. Gorman, study note on Romans 11:33-36 in The CEB Study Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013, p. 294 NT.
**** William Barclay, Daily Study Bible Series: The Letter to the Romans (Revised Edition). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1975, p. 155.
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Bidens abortion clash with the Catholic Church – POLITICO
On the Texas law restricting abortions
I think the interesting thing will be watching how [Biden] deals with this Texas bill and seeing how he follows through on what he's promised, which is a all of government effort to combat it and to block it. And the idea that the nation's second Catholic president could oversee the death of abortion access, you know, or the the fall of Roe v. Wade This is a remarkable moment. Its really an interesting, complex and difficult position for him to be in. Ruby Cramer
It's a little awkward because when Joe Biden goes to mass, you're not actually going inside the church with him. What you actually do is sit on a bus on a road near the president's home, wait for the president to leave his home as you're getting security sweeps and all that stuff checked by the Secret Service.
And when he leaves to go to church, the press bus joins up with the motorcade, drives to the church with him, pulls up to a certain spot, a designated area. Essentially, you watch him walk from the motorcade to the front doors of the church, you watch him go inside, then that's over. There's nothing else to see because you're not going in with him.
It just feels like a weirdly personal moment that you're observing through a literal fence. It has a fishbowl element that plays out so literally as to almost be ridiculous, and it's just a strange feature of this particular president that always stuck in my mind.
I think with Biden, there's always been a presumption, this almost unspoken rule, that for him mass is so sacred and his church is so sacred that it is an incredibly private space. And I think the interesting tension ... is that, yes, it's private, and that's always how Biden has treated it and yes, communion is this sort of, for Catholics, a literal moment before God, and that's as personal as you can get. But it's also the president of the United States occupying this incredibly public role of being the nation's second Catholic president, second to John F. Kennedy.
I mean, we've got a history in this country of that being a very fraught and important and full-of-meaning sort of role. And what does that mean to people? That's what's interesting about it, I think. Ruby Cramer
In my conversations with the people who built the faith engagement program, I would always ask them the same question, which was, When you are going to work for Joe Biden running a faith program for him did you ever sit down and talk to him like, Hey, buddy, how do you want to do this faith thing? Because religion and politics is pretty complicated, last I checked.
... So I always wanted to know, like, did these people ever sit down with Joe Biden and ask him what were the boundaries of what this should look like? I thought that was a good question. And basically, the impression that I got is no, no one ever did that. And I think what happened instead was they all just kind of took their cues from watching him, understanding that he was going to sort of set the tone for the way that they would make the case to people. Ruby Cramer
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Google pulls the plug on DeepMind-developed health app Streams – Business Insider
Google is shutting down Streams, a mobile app designed to help clinicians track patients' conditions, two years after acquiring it from portfolio firm DeepMind.
The decision to take Streams offline marks the tech giant's latest letdown in a streak of high-profile disappointments. Last week, Insider exclusively revealed the company was dismantling its embattled health division after struggling to hammer out a roadmap for the group, and letting major deals fizzle out along the way.
A Google spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch it would soon be decommissioning the app, which it took control of when it absorbed DeepMind's own health team in 2019. The app has been in use at a number of the UK's best-known National Health Service hospitals for the past five years, but faced criticism from those wary of Big Tech hoovering up patient data.
Three years before Google took control of Streams away from DeepMind, a New Scientist investigation revealed that the app had extensive access to 1.6 million patients' data as part of an arrangement with London's Royal Free Hospital.
The UK data regulator ruled that the deal was unlawful, triggering public outcry over worries that a US tech giant might gain access to confidential patient data for profit.
The decision to shut down Streams comes just months after Google pulled the plug on Loon, the spin out that hoped to make broadband more accessible using solar-powered balloons, and the shutdown of other moonshot projects, including power-generating kite firm Makaniand fuel alternative Project Foghorn.
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Where the mind is without fear – The Times of India Blog
From an early age, we have been taught that education is probably the only path to achieving success and happiness in life. And yet, so many of us, in spite of the education we have been blessed with, get swayed away by the volatility of life, volatility that has heightened significantly in the current times. This might lead us to wonder has education lived up to its promise? Or has it lost its intrinsic purpose and vision in the wake of modern-day societies and countries? It probably has.
Fundamentally, education needs to be reimagined. Had we heeded Tagores words- Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high while designing curricula and imparting education, this might not have been required. The purpose of education is three-fold: sharing information, building skillsets, and instilling wisdom. Wisdom is critical to be able to better understand the art of living and be at peace with ourselves and the world. Truth be told, our education system, as exposed by the rapid pace of change in the 21st century, and more recently by the pandemic, has obsessively focused on the first two aspects only. And consequently, it has failed our students to be future-ready. Our schools and colleges have rarely taught us how to respond gracefully to a colleagues chiding remarks, double down when things get hard, manage our thoughts, emotions or our worst fears or to keep our heads high in the face of uncertainty. In our race for survival and higher economic status, wisdom remained in the timeless teachings of our past seers only.
The tragedy of Indian education lies in our inability to capitalise on our over 5,000 years old Gurukul system of learning, where students lived in the Gurus residence, learning and working together as a community. This system included all essential elements for nurturing educated and responsible beings. Learning was seen as a lifelong process where life was the most important teacher, and the Guru the leading light. The curriculum inspired students to develop a sense of discretion and self-restraint, build their personality and intellectual prowess, imbibe personal virtues and social awareness, and more.
Some parts of this deep educational philosophy have remained embedded in our 21st-century system, but sadly, only some. The gaps in our education have now manifested into real-world problems, and the raging pandemic and the subsequent disappearance of brick-and-mortar learning has only complicated matters. What then is a balanced and nuanced path towards reclaiming the old order of cultivating informed, skilled and conscious individuals? How can modern society move from developing agile workers to agile humans? Is there still a way to tap into our ancient wisdom and our cultural heritage against the current wave of complexities and unhappiness? The answer is yes and three things need to be done.
First, the student-teacher relationship needs to be deepened again, where teachers are fully responsible for students growth and well-being and teach emotional intelligence as an integral component of the school curriculum, much like the Delhi governments newly minted Happiness class. Further, we need to draw talent and compensate teachers in a manner that, at least substantially, competes with the rewards of a mainstream career. Teachers have always been revered in our society and we should revere them even more.
Second, the learning horizon needs to be expanded beyond teachers, parents, authors and managers to include friends, peers, strangers, community, and life events, for we have always learnt from others and limiting who or what we learn from limits our potential to learn.
Finally, our education system needs to transform the mindset of our students from limited learning through our growing years only, to a mindset for lifelong learning where we all become students for life.
There are many more things that need to be done. However, even if these three changes can be incorporated into our current education framework, we can expect to live up to Tagores words again Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action, Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Views expressed above are the author's own.
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Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Component, By Technology, By Deployment, By Application, By Region, Competition Forecast &…
Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Component (Platform, Services (Managed, Professional)), By Technology (Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Robotics, Computer / Machine Vision), By Deployment (Cloud, On-Premises), By Application (Customer Experience, Price Optimization, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, Automation, Others), By Region, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2026
New York, Aug. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Component, By Technology, By Deployment, By Application, By Region, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2026" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06131095/?utm_source=GNW
Global cognitive computing in retail market is expected to grow at a significant rate in the forecast period.Cognitive computing analyzes a massive amount of data with accuracy.
It can understand the natural language, images, recognize patterns, amongst others to provide an enhanced shopping experience to consumers and help the organization to make smart decisions.Change in the consumer preference to buy through online channels has impacted the operation of the retail industry.
Development of interactive platforms along with the lucrative discounts offered by the market players to attract customers is accelerating the online sales channel market growth.Ongoing research and development activities for technological advancements of cloud computing technology to increase the efficiency of the system are expected to fuel the market growth in the next five years.
The rise in the expenditure capacity of the consumer is increasing the sales of smart devices. Organizations are actively utilizing cognitive computing solutions to reduce the other operational expenses is expected to pave the way for market growth. The growing adoption of internet of things technology for real-time monitoring to analyze consumer behavior and the roll-out of 5G technology is influencing the demand for cognitive computing in the retail market.Global cognitive computing in retail market is segmented into component, technology, deployment, application, regional distribution, and company.Based on the regional analysis, North America is expected to dominate the market for the forecast period, 2022-2026.
Supportive government policies and high adoption of advanced technologies by the organizations are driving the growth of the market in the region. The presence of major market players coupled with the start-ups adopting cognitive computing solutions is expected to influence the market growth.The major players operating in the global cognitive computing in retail market are SparkCognition, Inc., Expert System USA, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Google LLC, Teradata Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprises Co., CognitiveScale, Inc., Deepmind Technologies, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Enterra Solutions LLC, SAS Institute, Inc., Virtusa Corporation, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., among others. Major companies are developing advanced technologies and launching new services to stay competitive in the market. Other competitive strategies include mergers & acquisitions and new service developments.
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Historical Years: 2016-2019Base Year: 2020Estimated Year: 2021Forecast Period: 20222026
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To analyze the historical growth of the market size of global cognitive computing in retail market from 2016 to 2019. To estimate and forecast the market size of global cognitive computing in retail market from 2020 to 2026 and growth rate until 2026. To classify and forecast global cognitive computing in retail market based on component, technology, deployment, application, regional distribution, and company. To identify dominant region or segment in the global cognitive computing in retail. To identify drivers and challenges for global cognitive computing in retail market. To examine competitive developments such as expansions, new product launches, mergers & acquisitions, etc., in global cognitive computing in retail market. To identify and analyze the profile of leading players operating in global cognitive computing in retail market. To identify key sustainable strategies adopted by market players in global cognitive computing in retail market.The analyst performed both primary as well as exhaustive secondary research for this study.Initially, the analyst sourced a list of service providers across the globe.
Subsequently, the analyst conducted primary research surveys with the identified companies.While interviewing, the respondents were also enquired about their competitors.
Through this technique, the analyst could include the service providers who could not be identified due to the limitations of secondary research. The analyst examined the service providers, distribution channels and presence of all major players across the globe.The analyst calculated the market size of global cognitive computing in retail market using a bottom-up approach, wherein data for various end-user segments was recorded and forecast for the future years. The analyst sourced these values from the industry experts and company representatives and externally validated through analyzing historical data of these product types and applications for getting an appropriate, overall market size.
Various secondary sources such as company websites, news articles, press releases, company annual reports, investor presentations and financial reports were also studied by the analyst.
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Cognitive Computing in Retail service provider companies Market research and consulting firms Government bodies such as regulating authorities and policy makers Organizations, forums, and alliances related to cognitive computing in retail marketThe study is useful in providing answers to several critical questions that are important for the industry stakeholders such as service providers, suppliers and partners, end users, etc., besides allowing them in strategizing investments and capitalizing on market opportunities.
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In this report, global cognitive computing in retail market has been segmented into following categories, in addition to the industry trends which have also been detailed below: Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Component:o Platformo ServicesManagedProfessional Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Technology:o Machine Learningo Natural Language Processingo Deep Learningo Roboticso Computer / Machine Vision Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Deployment:o Cloudo On-Premises Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Application:o Customer Experienceo Price Optimizationo Demand Forecastingo Inventory Managemento Automationo Others Global Cognitive Computing in Retail Market, By Region:o Asia-PacificChinaIndiaAustraliaJapanSouth Koreao EuropeFranceGermanyUnited KingdomItalySpaino North AmericaUnited StatesCanadaMexicoo South AmericaBrazilArgentinaColombiao Middle East & AfricaSouth AfricaSaudi ArabiaUAE
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What would it be like to be a conscious AI? We might never know. – MIT Technology Review
Humans are active listeners; we create meaning where there is none, or none intended. It is not that the octopuss utterances make sense, but rather that the islander can make sense of them, Bender says.
For all their sophistication, todays AIs are intelligent in the same way a calculator might be said to be intelligent: they are both machines designed to convert input into output in ways that humanswho have mindschoose to interpret as meaningful. While neural networks may be loosely modeled on brains, the very best of them are vastly less complex than a mouses brain.
And yet, we know that brains can produce what we understand to be consciousness. If we can eventually figure out how brains do it, and reproduce that mechanism in an artificial device, then surely a conscious machine might be possible?
When I was trying to imagine Roberts world in the opening to this essay, I found myself drawn to the question of what consciousness means to me. My conception of a conscious machine was undeniablyperhaps unavoidablyhuman-like. It is the only form of consciousness I can imagine, as it is the only one I have experienced. But is that really what it would be like to be a conscious AI?
Its probably hubristic to think so. The project of building intelligent machines is biased toward human intelligence. But the animal world is filled with a vast range of possible alternatives, from birds to bees to cephalopods.
A few hundred years ago the accepted view, pushed by Ren Descartes, was that only humans were conscious. Animals, lacking souls, were seen as mindless robots. Few think that today: if we are conscious, then there is little reason not to believe that mammals, with their similar brains, are conscious too. And why draw the line around mammals? Birds appear to reflect when they solve puzzles. Most animals, even invertebrates like shrimp and lobsters, show signs of feeling pain, which would suggest they have some degree of subjective consciousness.
But how can we truly picture what that must feel like? As the philosopher Thomas Nagel noted, it must be like something to be a bat, but what that is we cannot even imaginebecause we cannot imagine what it would be like to observe the world through a kind of sonar. We can imagine what it might be like for us to do this (perhaps by closing our eyes and picturing a sort of echolocation point cloud of our surroundings), but thats still not what it must be like for a bat, with its bat mind.
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Google Health Disbanded; Staff Sent To Other Divisions – Silicon UK
The dedicated health unit at Google has been disbanded, with its 570 staff sent to different divisions within the Alphabet empire
Alphabet is reportedly disbanding its unified Google Health division, and instead will adopt a more distributed approach to developing health-related products.
This is according to Business Insider, which claimed to have seen a leaked memo on the matter. The 570 staff at Google Health are apparently being transferred to other teams.
The head of Google Health, David Feinberg, has also left the division and has joined US IT health services provider Cerner as CEO and President.
The fate of the remaining Google Health personnel has been revealed by Jeff Dean, Googles AI head in a tweet, with an undisclosed number moving to
As weve broadened our work in health across Google (Search, Cloud, YouTube, Fitbit, ), we have decided to move some @GoogleHeath teams closer to product areas to help with execution while nurturing some earlier stage products and research efforts, he tweeted.
Google Health had reportedly been founded in 2018 as a way to consolidate Googles fractured efforts in multiple healthcare areas, under a single division.
However the unit reportedly underwent some restructuring since that time.
Google will apparently remain invested in its existing health focused projects, but there will no longer be a single entity at the tech giant focused on health projects.
Google it should be remembered has its fingers in a number of healthcare related projects over the years, including Android fitness apps, medical study apps, and sleep-tracking features for its Nest Hub.
In 2019 Google officially swallowed DeepMind Health and its team into its new health division.
Google had announced in November 2018 that it would transfer control of DeepMind to a new Google Health division in California, as part of its efforts to commercialise its medical research efforts.
DeepMind had been acquired by Google for 400 million in 2014.
The firm has had its moments in the spotlight, most notably in 2017 when a war of words erupted between Deepmind and the authors of an academic paper, which fiercely criticised a NHS patient data sharing deal.
Besides Deepmind and Android apps, Google has also been involved in other health related projects.
Perhaps the most notable was in 2014, when Google and Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis agreed to develop smart contact lenses, designed to help people with diabetes track their blood glucose levels.
And in 2019 Googles then London-based DeepMind artificial intelligence unit created a working prototype of what would be its first commercial medical device, the result of the units three-year collaboration with Moorfields Eye Hospital.
DeepMind performed a retinal scan and real-time diagnosis on a patient who had agreed to be examined publicly.
The scan was analysed by DeepMinds algorithms in Googles cloud, which provided an urgency score and a detailed analysis in about 30 seconds.
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Google Health Disbanded; Staff Sent To Other Divisions - Silicon UK