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Tag: Artificial Intelligence

  • File This Under, “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”

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    Virginia Tech is implementing a new admissions-application process for the next academic year. Snowed under by a record 57,600 first-year applications last year, Tech will be using AI to help sort through all those essays. States the Virginia Tech news bureau: The changes include shifting the university’s early admissions application deadline from Nov. 15 to…

  • Tech Van Winkle Awakes

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    Northern Virginia’s business community rises from its slumber to address challenges of the AI revolution. by James A. Bacon Like the legendary Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep for 20 years and woke up to a whole new world, Northern Virginia’s business community has emerged from its lengthy snooze to realize that it needs to…

  • AI, Solar and Trees

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    by Chap Petersen If you read this newsletter, you are aware of the ongoing struggle between the data center industry and conservation groups in Virginia. Most of those proposed projects are in suburban counties like Prince William or Loudoun or in the exurbs. In rural Virginia, a separate struggle is playing out as utility scale solar seeks to establish a…

  • Are Virginia’s Historic Landscapes the Next Frontier for Big Tech?

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    Data centers continue to bolster communities in Virginia, but without proper regulation, Virginians on the ground will be the biggest losers. by Bronson Winslow Data centers, driven by Big Tech’s eastward expansion, have popped up like 7-Elevens across Virgini a— reshaping rolling hills and historic communities in the name of progress. The aggressive transformation, primarily…

  • Bob Blue’s Big Opportunity

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    by Paul Goldman America needs to win the Artificial Intelligence battle.  Winning apparently requires building hundreds and hundreds more data centers. At least say the experts right now. Do I have the intelligence artificial or otherwise to know if this is true? No, I don’t. Neither, I suspect, do more than a few hundred Americans.…

  • Was John Reid Framed?

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    by James A. Bacon An in-depth analysis of the Tumblr account where lieutenant-governor candidate John Reid allegedly posted explicit photos of nude male models shows that the account was dormant for several years before someone reactivated it and planted the incriminating photos. So concludes the author of an X account identifying himself as @VaChangeAgent. “Bottom…

  • AI Guardrails Will Shape Society. Here’s How They Work.

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    You know Artificial Intelligence has reached critical mass when the politicians start trying to regulate it. (See The Virginia Mercury’s summary of Virginia bills here.) As citizens, we need to pay close attention. John Farmer, a Richmond intellectual-property attorney, provides a helpful primer. — JAB by John Farmer You will be hearing a lot about…

  • Is There an AI for Fact Checking AI?

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    Type “UVA Board Visitors members” into the Bing search engine, and the above information highlight appears atop the page. Just one problem. The UVA Board doesn’t have seven members, it has 17 members. For a source the text points to an article in UVA Today discussing board appointments by Governor Bob McDonnell in 2010. Admittedly,…