CHARBONNEAU – Kamloops’ rating of high wildfire risk is doubtful
WHY WOULD a small Toronto-based insurance broker release arcane data that shows Kamloops to be at highest risk of wildfires — in all of Canada? BC Wildfire Service fire [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Canadian team unmasks the dark underside of GPT-4o
A CANADIAN TEAM has easily unmasked the ugly side of GPT-4o, a side that exists in all chatbots but is usually covered up. It only took a few seconds for the team, [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – One big grid would solve our future electricity needs
WE FACE TWO PROBLEMS that a Trans Canada electrical grid would solve. Renewable sources face a storage problem. When the wind blows and the sun shines, turbines and solar [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – AI is hungry for electricity, thirsty for water
WE HEAR A LOT about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence but little about mundane things such as how to feed the lumbering savant. The promise is that generative [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Huxley’s futuristic solution to the ‘drug problem’
ALDOUS HUXLEY came up with a solution to the drug problem of the day in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley’s book is set in the World State city of London in AD [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Robots could learn from the lowly flatworm
WE CREATE ROBOTS in our own image. Or, in the way we imagine ourselves. We imagine ourselves as calculating machines with all the processing going on in our brains. Bodies [Continue]
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