The ancient dream of AI?

“When it comes to bringing forth artificial human-like life and understanding, mythos preceded logos. The earliest AI stories are Greek mythological narratives.”

https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-ancient-dream-of-ai

#Ancient #AI #ArtificialIntelligence nostr:npub1q8m9f0f3mcmnu3x6a45y90hctvylk9g5uh4f7z9lsm6l7ny0sr3q4u4c67

Do you keep a record of how many pages you #read in a day? If you do how does it help you?

#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

"Petra, showing the Upper or Eastern End of the Valley. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849."

#DavidRoberts #Painting #Art #Lithograph #Petra #C19th #19thCentury

#Image attribution: David Roberts, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:

Are we living through an algorithmic induced dystopian? If we are, will the future bring any amelioration?

#Question #Algorithms #Technology #Tech

"Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being."

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04412-x #Degrowth #Ecology #Economics #Environment #Science #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability nostr:npub1fv25x0uawls034qqlleqymhx9wx574xt0ujlscjjzh5akjx0kars7rwutw nostr:npub13xw06pf3tfygxjjle0wetv8lwzk3eak6zqh8a68jwaqzhhdzht6qzjxyzr

"We designed the Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES) pill, an ingestible device that performs luminal vibratory stimulation to activate mechanoreceptors and stroke mucosal receptors, which induces serotonin release and yields a hormonal metabolic response commensurate with a fed state."

Shriya S. Srinivasan et al., A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety. Sci. Adv. 9, eadj3003(2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3003 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Engineering #Science #STEM #Medicine #Health #Obesity #Academia #Academic nostr:npub1fv25x0uawls034qqlleqymhx9wx574xt0ujlscjjzh5akjx0kars7rwutw nostr:npub1wg6xr2jetdmkeefhypa9hxlnfys5qtsu7tgs5e2ukx03lvmy0v2q6u2ucx

KRSTIĆ, V. (2023). A Functional Analysis of Human Deception. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2023.19 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Philosophy #Deception #Misinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics nostr:npub146u3z92ejag5hakgkaeq9py3tp884244eamhx8mah3m08taaejysr977jj

"Map of the Medo-Persian Empire: Showing its twenty Satapies. B.C. 529-331. By I.S. Clare. (to accompany) Cram's atlas of the world, ancient and modern: new census edition -- indexed." https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/0r7ik5 #Map #Maps #Cartography #History

#Histodon #Histodons #Antiquity #Ancient #Empire nostr:npub14hy6v8f93s6zg39p2d7732e9gy8gf9v7fspxq92g7gaylakr2v0qmnm38n nostr:npub1he57hak3j9q6d6q3jfexx59gtkm2jh5fdh43p73uelwzkfp4gvmstq85zf nostr:npub1wdh93g3fttmlf4u0tmp060wtwdyjlrw02hnstev58fr23ug6eeasnqjxfv

"Map of the Medo-Persian Empire : Showing its twenty Satapies. B.C. 529-331. By I.S. Clare. (to accompany) Cram's atlas of the world, ancient and modern : new census edition -- indexed." https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/0r7ik5 #Map #Maps #Cartography #History

#Histodon #Histodons #Antiquity #Ancient #Empire nostr:npub14hy6v8f93s6zg39p2d7732e9gy8gf9v7fspxq92g7gaylakr2v0qmnm38n nostr:npub1he57hak3j9q6d6q3jfexx59gtkm2jh5fdh43p73uelwzkfp4gvmstq85zf nostr:npub1wdh93g3fttmlf4u0tmp060wtwdyjlrw02hnstev58fr23ug6eeasnqjxfv