Don’t be guilty of this! From the Miss Manners newspaper column: Dear Miss Manners: Lately at social events, I often find myself trapped by people who want to share, in excruciating detail, their genetic test results. Each person finds their own results deeply compelling, marveling at length over being 3% this and 15% that, with …
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Do ‘Griefbots’ Help Mourners Deal With Loss?
From an article by Tim Reinboth published in the undark.org web site: Various commercial products known as “griefbots” create a simulation of a lost loved one. Built on artificial intelligence that makes use of large language models, or LLMs, the bots imitate the particular way the deceased person talked by using their emails, text messages, voice recordings, …
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
Here is an article that is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, I found it interesting: By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the …