Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious

Nothing here is what it seems.   7.28.21.  4am. Cat wakes me. Say, No. Launch pillow toward meow. [This routine can sometimes start at 2am .] Quieter meow under chair. Say, No. Firm tone of voice. Too early. 4:33am. Still awake. Let cat out. 4:36am.  Dozing. Base of neck. Slight tickle? Rub neck. Epiphany. Look at clock. Time is  5am. Inform invisible helper clock is set 10 minutes ahead. Wait 9 minutes. Silence phone before alarm wakes puppy. Time is relative. As is dreaming. *** OddsnEnds NASA conversation starter from Uri Geller . "I can't tell you what I saw there. But use your imagination. What could they have been refrigerating?"   Source. What has security experts baffled by UFOs? Answer: Combustion.  MSN . Long overdue. Research suggests "Brains Might Sync As People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research."  DiscoverMag . "Scientists have peered into people’s minds as they complete tasks in pairs and groups. The...

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov, WIST quotes (Wish I'd Said That!) Truth detected. Oddsnends -  All the perks (minus note on the potential hook). TedX presentation on how True Artificial Intelligence will change everything. Professor Juergen Schmidhuber has been called the father of modern AI. Deep Learning. Kurzweilai As AI continues to evolve, remembering Elon Musk, NPR, advising caution. (Suspect once we incorporate AI into much of our tech there will be no recovering or divesting from that merge.) Musk's warning, so far, has been dismissed ignored.   At least one jabbed Musk's action as self-serving. - Might be he's less concerned with reasons we can imagine as a deal breaker and more concerned with issues we have not yet bothered begun to fathom. Forward we go. Healthcare, VR, Cybersecurity, 51 AI Predictions for 2018. Forbes AI game changer. Wen...