Science
Should artificial intelligence be your doctor? A warning for you. As I’ve mentioned here recently, AI is an amazing animal. As a “Chatbot,” AI can respond like a human with seemingly infinite knowledge. But to me AI is something of a murky creature facing an undefined future. Despite its eloquence, […]
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Yes, artificial intelligence (AI) is often wrong. Admittedly, this digital wunderkind can spout smooth sentences with amazing ease, but its results cannot be trusted. If you’re looking for facts, say by using an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT, watch out! (A chatbot is a computer program that uses AI to […]
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What are the dangers of artificial intelligence? Will AI extinguish human life? Could AI wipe out civilization as we know it? A crowd of experts assert that it could. You’ve probably read the stories over the past couple of days. An outfit called the Center for AI Safety (a San […]
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A burgeoning flood of laboratory data, along with emerging studies on human subjects, indicate that Urolithin A effectively tames inflammation. Importantly, this molecule also stimulates mitophagy (See here), and it is emerging as a potentially important therapeutic agent. The next two paragraphs, taken from recent scientific review articles, lay out […]
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Fountains of youth and magic elixirs have been touted for millennia, each illusion tantalizing many, and disappointing all. That era has ended, replaced by the awesome science of anti-aging. New strategies are evolving to improve and prolong the function of practically every part of the body, organs like the heart, […]
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Global warming and nuclear winter are two different, and in some ways contrasting, risks to the lives of the nearly 8 billion humans living on this planet. My last few posts have focused on what we can do individually to live healthier and longer lives (See 1, 2, 3, 4, […]
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