Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week
First Four RootsTech 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced
Finding Your British WWI Soldier — Dead or Alive
I recommend Paul Milner’s presentation for Legacy Family Tree Webinars, free to all until Tuesday.
The Greater Sudbury Public Library was awarded the Vivid-Pix Memory Station system, which was donated to the Ontario genealogy community in June at the OGS Conference.
Legacy Family Tree Webinars have extended the last date for their 50% off offer for new subscriptions to today, Sunday, 8 December 2024.
National Library of Scotland YouTube Videos
GenCast
An article in the journal Nature discussed GenCast, a new AI weather prediction model from Google DeepMind. It is reported to be more accurate than today’s best operational forecast model from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting. Oversimplifying it’s a multidimensional analogy technique. Analogy forecasting has a long history – see this article from 1901.I look forward to an independent evaluation and real-time GenCast forecasts becoming publicly available.
How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
AI hasn’t yet achieved the broad, flexible reasoning that humans naturally possess. Significant progress is being made, but a fully human-like AI remains a future possibility rather than a current reality.
Thanks to this week’s contributors: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Bruce Elliott, Gail, Glenn Wright, Julia, Marg, Nick Mcdonald, Teresa, and Unknown.
