Just for fun I printed this poem out on an 8 x 12 sheet of paper and sent it to the New Yorker Magazine in a stamped envelope. Thinking doing the unconventional would lead to something interesting. Crickets! Imagine Being The letter opener At the New Yorker Magazine, Poetry Section; Its steel edge Honed, To razor sharpness, So that it may Slice open the Envelopes that arrive, By the sack full; Daily in their dozens. Poems! Peons to loneliness; Heartaches revealed; Dreams

AI will provide hypothetical mechanisms for all the ‘function unknown’ proteins that are currently in the world’s protein databases; >90% of these mechanisms will be more or less correct. AI will also assess >90% of hypothetical proteins in these databases, and identify whether or not they do have function, and in many cases, assign a function with a >50% success rate. Will AI reach the point where it understands at a fundamental level how it works? Will it tell us? If AI b

I spent some time writing a blog on AI and it's ended deciding to post as three separate blogs, the first being Are We Insane? This one is a follow-on to Are We Insane. The third one is just me having some aMUSEment. In my own world it is nearly impossible to imagine the kinds of resources being used to develop AI to remedy environmental problems, and create a sustainable future. Like most technology, AI will contribute to technical problem solving, but will it provide soluti