John F. Sciacca

Chief #Innovation Officer | #GTM #Strategy --
#AI, #Analytics, #Blockchain, #Cloud, #Data, #Digital Transformation, Future-of-Work, Ind 4.0, #Quantum

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@satyanadella The business immaturity of OpenAI brings questions of governance and trust. AGI Hype is the future? AI for sixty years has seen winters and valleys. This has been a [sales] $__t show — illustrating the hype for profit — this is anything but trusted...

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@OpenAI So after @SnoopDogg said he was giving up weed — you guys got some of his stash and are now waking up from a bad trip?

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@tprstly @eshear @OpenAI Well stated! 👍

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@elonmusk @satyanadella LOL! 😆

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@csvoss What if AI decides to become [closed] and not need people? 🤔

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@lexfridman @satyanadella Looonngg way off from AGI — current tech = brain of mosquito. The mosquito is impressive with its DNA coding. However, ask it to build a honeycomb or birdsnest — it is incapable. We do excellent things with AI that enhance the human condition today. However, AGI is ~100 years.

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NIKOLA TESLA's WIRELESS ENERGY BECOMES REALITY!

A few weeks ago, Caltech was able to take a page out of the playbook of an Asimov science-fiction book or as some of the more tech savvy would know, Tesla's relentless quest for wireless electricity.

For…https://t.co/f0BCYKqQ5z

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CAN GRAVITY BE QUANTIZED?

The weak nuclear-force, strong nuclear-force and electromagnetism is quantized where we can manage it.

Gravity with space-time is peculiar. It is so weak, yet so powerful. How does it work on the quantum…https://t.co/IjuxNbFFcJ https://t.co/MAo0p3owNZ

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AYN RAND (Objectivism)

Ayn Rand was a prominent author, influencer and philosopher. She might be best known for Atlas Shrugged "Who is John Galt?"

Ayn's philosophy is so influential that when she was aked in an interview by Mik…https://t.co/WZUucPJN9w https://t.co/rUyIF10rt5

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Johnny and I share a few things in common — Two of which are:

1. We have the same name with spelling.
2. We both graduated MIT together on the same day as MIT ACE Alum.

He has just been honored by the President of Ireland for outstanding contributions!…https://t.co/h4gISp1qcn

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SUPERPOSITION EXPERIMENT

Interesting read on Schrödinger's cat example of superposition from physics student's at the the University of Warsaw. I'm not sure what the time was for observation of the dual-pulse states -- however, l…https://t.co/AnlGsKtHl4 https://t.co/BqQ8XWixwZ

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ANTHROPOMORPHISM (Don't hurt the AI's Feelings)

I have been working on neural science studies with people (sub: 12yrs - 80yrs) conversing with GenAI on questions from: "Will Santa bring me a new PlayStation" to "How much is enough to retire on" to "Will…https://t.co/ybm2raoT0I

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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
07-04-2023

Happy Birthday These United States of America!

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Lif…https://t.co/5qMGyAVUIl

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MIT - RECOMMENDED READING [SUMMER] BOOKS
(2023)

There are gems in here!

Following is what I 'added' to my list of summer reading -- Curious to hear your summer list of reading?

The first book on this list resonates with me as a…https://t.co/KQA4qr0KsM https://t.co/UnbkYnDzPn

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REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY

It is unusual for the Supreme Court to "unanimously decide" on a ruling like this.

"In a unanimous decision the justices made clear that workers who ask for accommodations, such as taking the Sabbath off, should…https://t.co/pKv3rtvoQA

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HARVARD - [RENOWNED CS50 COURSE] TO BE TAUGHT BY AI THIS UPCOMING SEPTEMBER SEMESTER

Are you serious Harvard? If you are going to charge premium prices for a course taught by a 3.5 or 4.0 LLM from OpenAI -- Why would people not…https://t.co/YfNCgpb8gS https://t.co/BX9iTbSs9R

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CLOUD WARS (AWS vs ORACLE)

Is Oracle making the comeback of the technology century?

I remember not that long-ago Oracle saying customers will never go-to-the cloud and it was a waste of time. They also did not allow instances of…https://t.co/uzbB5bMSvJ https://t.co/GLwYObJcuR

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FUN READ [PHOTONS-TIME RELATIVITY]

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1) Einstein's special relativity describes how as an object moves closer to the speed of light, time slows down and distances shrink.

2) A photon, moving at the speed of light…https://t.co/LuFbSmiKoh https://t.co/lT2us97Cku

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QUANTUM BUNCHING (Photon Mysteries)
06-23

There is alot to be said about the observation in this article that contradics our current understanding of the behavior and measurement of photons. Are photons a wave? A particle? Both? A…https://t.co/tgmSRiHY44 https://t.co/J8GHKBXngn

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MOORES LAW (History + Past-state; Present-state; and Future-state)
06-2023

The article attached is an excellent read on the man who brought us from large vacuum-tubes -- processing computers that used entire warehouse-sized rooms…https://t.co/vORnd2DDu7 https://t.co/54NNYM7VzQ