The Zen of Technology & Scientific Discovery! (& Robots)

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Well, now my family and Treeleaf won't be rid of me, even when I'm dead!

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life

You've got questions; Shatner's got answers.

Got a question for "Star Trek" actor William Shatner? You could see it answered in an interactive conversation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and using video responses that Shatner prerecorded.

This two-way conversational video platform was developed by StoryFile, and the company recently introduced the "conversation" with Shatner on its website as a way to commemorate the actor's 90th birthday this past spring. In the video, a jovial-looking Shatner sits in a room awaiting users' questions about his life and career, which can be posed as audio or text. Once Shatner is asked a question, the system swiftly selects an appropriate answer from the prerecorded options, providing the response in real time.

The company recorded Shatner's answers in front of a greenscreen at StoryFile's studio in Los Angeles over four days; questions covered various topics, including details of his life story, according to a behind-the-scenes video that StoryFile shared March 22 on Vimeo.
https://www.livescience.com/william-shatner-ai-chat

Give it a try! Ask him about religion or football or Star Trek, and sit back ...

https://www.storyfile.com/

Gassho, J

STLah

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That sky... just...


st/rj

Oh, ya gotta love folks who know their stuff! Some challenges on the authenticity of this PICTURE!

Beautiful but probably FAKE!

This is actually a montage of Earth sky on to Mars foreground. 'Mars' is near Regulus and Saturn is near Spica; so the sky images are from April 2012. ... the sky on mars is not so dark at night ...
https://www.facebook.com/SocialJunki...43315067435809

Sorry folks, although it is lovely.

Gassho, J

STLah

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That sky... just...


st/rj

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UPDATE:

Oh, ya gotta love folks who know their stuff! Some challenges on the authenticity of this PICTURE!

Beautiful but probably FAKE!

This is actually a montage of Earth sky on to Mars foreground. 'Mars' is near Regulus and Saturn is near Spica; so the sky images are from April 2012. ... the sky on mars is not so dark at night ...
https://www.facebook.com/SocialJunki...43315067435809

Sorry folks, although it is lovely.

This truly BREATHTAKING JAW DROPPING MIND BLOWING 360 degree view of the night sky on MARS, taken by the Rover ...

... do not miss this.

(Thank you, Bion, it popped into my Facebook feed from you)

Use your mouse to look around ...

https://www.facebook.com/SocialJunkieTravel/posts/243316277435688

[Rousei]

I'm very much a humanities person, however I find the sciences and mathematics to be fascinating. While I do not understand any of it, the concepts alone really open my eyes. Case in point, a British mathematician called Roger Penrose and I just learnt won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020.

I learnt about him through his idea of a cyclical universe. That is to say, according to him when the universe has expanded so far for so long it's mathematically no different to the moment before the big bang. So the Universe births itself anew, a rebirth so to speak over and over and over. This aligns quite nicely I thought to the Buddhist idea of aeon/kalpa.

Gassho
Mark
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