Cher Created a New Accent: Listen to her songs and try to figure out where she found it
Accents, of English or any other language, provides a sense of community and also of the place of origin. Once someone begins to speak,...
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Nov 28, 20195 min read
Here’s to the Ladies Who Create, Everybody Cheer: Late-life creativity is receiving new attention in
Life and creativity don’t end after you fly out of your 20s, grudgingly enter your 30s, and then there are the terrible 40s. Life goes...
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Nov 22, 20196 min read
Mental Illness and the Promise of AI: The search for relief may lie in AI not alcohol
Mental illness and the terror of its symptoms, which can include paralyzing fear, paranoid thoughts, total life destruction, or...
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Nov 9, 20195 min read
AI's Secrets Behind That Job Interview: It's not what you did or who you are but what AI says
Prepare all you want but know it doesn’t matter because your job interview fate doesn’t lie in your hands but the AI behind it. No, it’s...
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Nov 7, 20195 min read
Stress is YOUR Silent killer
Stress is natural, but we live in extremely stressful times, and your health is at risk if you don’t take steps to control it Over 8...
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Oct 24, 20194 min read
Child Porn Detection by AI: The chase is on with technology on the internet
A family member holds a video camera as a little girl is giggling and laughing as she poses for the camera. Uploading the video to a...
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Oct 21, 20193 min read
The AI War Against Climate Change: Is AI the enemy, who are the players, and what are they doing?
Stephen Hawking, in his posthumously published book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, expressed his concern about the advances of AI...
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Oct 18, 20196 min read
Advancing Ethical Robots: How do we prevent unethical, biased robotic creations?
Robots stalked the street, looking for anyone who didn’t meet the program’s appropriate face detection incorporated in the Haar Cascades...
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Oct 17, 20194 min read
Mozart in Your Mind: AI's ability to score the music your brain is creating
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed everything in his head, or so the story goes. Biographies and letters written by the musical genius...
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Oct 17, 20194 min read
Sex with a Female Bot: Who benefits, who complains and the sex trade's concerns
Moaning and whispering what her partner wants to hear, she is more than compliant, and she is totally programmed. With each whisper, each...
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Oct 17, 20194 min read
Video Game Addiction: Can an addiction have a positive side?
Video games are dangerous to your mental health and will make you become an addict. Do you believe that? Of course, we hear this repeated...
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Oct 14, 20194 min read
Deepfake Destroys Trust: AI enters a world of illusion with dire political and personal implications
Children appear in pornographic videos, and so do celebrities and politicians. Senator Ted Cruz dancing seductively in an inappropriate...
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Oct 10, 20195 min read
Cyberbullying, Suicide and AI: Technology made it happen and technology has to be the solution
Close to 7,000 beds were empty last night and they'll never be filled again. The children, teens and young adults who slept in them...
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Oct 7, 20194 min read
The Non-Fiction Novel: Is it an art form or was Truman Capote a fraud?
Full disclosure. I had adored Capote’s writing and have a signed postcard from him sent from his Hampton’s home. In it, he indicates he...
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Oct 3, 20194 min read
Porn and the World of AI: Computer sensuality enters the world of adult entertainment
Pornography is a multi-million-dollar, or multi-billion-dollar industry, depending on your source. And the industry is undergoing...
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Sep 26, 20196 min read
The "Evil" Therapist: Protecting yourself from those who might harm you
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Dostoevsky Evil is a word most...
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Sep 26, 20194 min read
The AI Rabbit Hole of Writing: A personal journey with AI manuscript review
Writing, we are told by some of the most famous and successful authors, is passion, a necessity, the staff of their lives and something...
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Sep 20, 20194 min read
Mozart in Your Mind: AI's ability to score the music your brain is creating
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed everything in his head, or so the story goes. Biographies and letters written by the musical genius...
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Sep 13, 20195 min read
Desperate for Attention and Dying: Advertising, vaping and the insidious wish to belong
Marketing has its geniuses just as science. Two stellar names stand out for entirely different reasons, but with the same goal; selling a...
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