Reposting stories from original website

After recapping on AI in Andrew's crash course on AI, let's follow on recent updates: 

Aug. '24: A return to my roots
Oct. '24: "Where in the world...", updated
Oct. '24: Global sea level rise revisited
Oct. '24: Northwest Passage Reloaded
Nov. '24: Cumbria classic revisited...
Dec. '24: Exhuming my thesis area... & Jan. '25: update
Jan. '25: London Thames Barrier... & Feb. '25: update
Feb. '25: Beechey Island update
Feb. '25: East Anglia Peatlands revisited

I now re-posted ftom my original "www.zolnai.ca", a new chronological blog of my life & work web  from 1957 to 2001, incl. the evolution of my websites:

aizonline.blogspot.com

It's linked as "prof. portfolios" atop right banner menu on main blog, desktop link below:

blog.zolnai.ca/?m=0

Following on from my map re-visits atop, here's one last request posted as my closing blog.

A convesation with AI (long read)

Update: a short read on Medium tells "the story behind the story" of American & French Revolutions.

Shakira YouTube channel posted this video #LMYNLWorldTourCDMX: 

How a confusion between CDMX (Ciudad Mexico) and MCDX (1410 in Roman numerals) lead to a far-ranging AI chat thru culture, geography, career and climate activism. MSFT Copilot (here) transcript (Italics: me, regular: Copilot):

Andrew's AI Crash Course

Update 1: added an album of AI edit quirks below

Update 2: added cautious optimism @ end

Update 3: AI data centers are not what you think! 

Update 4: finish this series w a conversation here

Update 5: a note of pessimism from an AI futurist 

Update 6:  an expert & critic questions "intelligence"

Update 7: a warning about AI wreaking havoc already

I mentioned before that AI will need skilled writers more than skilled coders. Forbes wrote here about a US efforts in that regard. The UK government has a playbook here.

Here is are lessons-learned in Andrew Zolnai Blog here and Andrew Zolnai my Professional Medium Channel (my Personal Channel is here):