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Could AI Prove to be Humanity’s Salvation ?

There has been much angst voiced in the media recently about the risks of AI being harmful to our species, most notably by the very people involved in developing it.... This is perhaps a reasonable 'gut' reaction to a technology which is developing faster than many of us expected and has turned out to be a powerful and transformative tool. It could certainly create havoc in the wrong hands. Personally, I’m not an ‘AI denier’ any more than I am ‘climate change denier’…both of these phenomena are appearing in front of our eyes, and only the cognitively blind could fail to see and accept them. What’s important is how we interpret them….and more to the point, how we act to mitigate their worst effects. There are risks, certainly, in allowing AI to continue to develop virtually unfettered as we appear still to be doing now. We should of course regulate…and on a worldwide basis, with the regulators actually ‘having teeth’, but without 'killing off the golden goose'. ...
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Garendon Park, Loughborough - Public Access Developments

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  I’m publishing this post to provide interested users with a link to my website’s Garendon page, where you’ll find some useful information on public access to the Garendon Park development . Just follow the link. Herewith also  some recent developments..... Update 12.9.26:   Persimmon's failure to honour their commitments under the S106 Planning agreement is now becoming something of a joke..and an annoying one at that.  Despite promises in June that the Link between Hathern Drive and the main estate road at the Bavarian Gate would be opened 'by the end of this summer', nothing has happened, and the cabling work that was reputed to be the cause of the delay is still in progress. An inspection yesterday showed little sign of any progress since the last inspection in mid August. By contrast, housebuilding on the northern side of the estate is proceeding rapidly and the distributor road which is intended to serve it looks to be largely complete between the A512 and t...
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Advanced Search Query Builder: The Easy Way to do Selective Internet Searches

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  Ever wanted to get rid of those pesky AI summaries that seem to appear nowadays every time you do a Google search ?  Want to bypass AI and 'do your own thing' with a more focussed advance internet search ? Or switch the search engine you're using at the touch of a button ?  Now you can - and without needing to remember the exact query syntax to use....or even opening a new window. To find out how, just read on….. Background Internet searching has changed a lot over the last few years, due largely to the automatic insinuation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents into everything but the most basic searches by the all the major search engine providers. There is no doubt that those AI summaries which now appear uninvited in response to most queries can be very useful, particularly for those who know little about a particular subject to start with, and aren’t quite sure where to start looking. But they aren't always needed, and they can clutter up the results ...
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