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But unless someone had already asked the same particular question how could any live webpage search contain an answer ?

Neither if these statements is correct.

So this is also a wind up

So this is a wind up then.

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I think you have made the classic mistake of confusing the map with the territory. The late, great, Professor Synge has written several books and papers on just this question. Here is some bedside reading for you. The Hypercircle in Mathematical Physics Cambridge Geometrical mechanics and De Broglie Waves Cambridge (If you really want to include quantum paradoxes) General Relativity: Papers in Honour of J. L. Synge (editor Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh); Pub: Clarendon/Oxford

Returning to this question of mine, your answer raises an important further issue. I can't see this happening unlesss the AI training has included reading everthing ever written by a human. I say this because otherwise the only possible answer to a question containing a reference to a theorem or experiment that was not in its training data is "I have no knowledge of that' Have you ever seen such a response? I tried the following question in Google. Use of Hutton's pendulum The returns were quite interesting. The AI version incorrerectly referred to the Schiehallion experiment about gravity The non AI version did not find it directly, but did find a Wikipedia reference which actually had the correct use but strangely did not mention Hutton at all. Questions about Napoleon's theorem, Poinsot's theorem and others also return vague and variable results.

Thank you. I note your first links refers to 100 years of AI, so I suspect it depends what you (they ?) mean by AI. I also note their impressive page of sponsors (those who stand to gain) What was the story about self policing ? The Romans had a catch phrase for it.

This explanation and maps of the current situation explain why modern medicine is important and why the plague was so devasting to the Roman empire and in the Middle ages. PlagueAbout PlaguePlague is a disease that affects humans and other mammals, caused by the bacterium, <em>Yersinia pestis</em>. PlagueMaps and StatisticsHuman plague still occurs in the western US, with most cases in northern New Mexico and Arizona.

May be so. But the user doesn't regard the steering wheel or pedals on a car as 'extras' All I see is a system presented to me as an AI. It can't function without the whole system.

At the university of Technology I first studied at, there were many students of electronics, computing and the like sponsored by the Marconi Company. One such flatmate of mine had a very dry sense of humour and came back from his industrial period with this tale. "Marconi produce some of the msot advanced signal generators in the world. The most advanced ones yo utype in the frequency etc you want at a numric keypad of push buttons. But the top brass are not satisfied. They want to advertise it as microprocessor controlled. So we had to devise a scheme whereby you typed in say 972.537815 MHz and the microprocessor read you input and said to itself 'Hmm he wants 972.537815 Mhz - and push the buttons for you.' " LLMs are just a bit further down this line.

Surely the LLM trawls new material it hasn't seen before every time you ask a question ? This additional information and using fixed statistical weights will still result in a new output every time ie development, I hesitate to call it evolution.

(A long way) backalong in this thread I'm sure I introduced you the the master principle that you can use to explain almost all process in physics. The principle of minimum energy, otherwise known to engineers as the shakedown theorem. This defines the conditions for virtual particles from the Higgs, through electrons, nuclear reactions, chemical reactions, macroscopic mechanics and upwards.

Sorry I need your explanation.

It's a popsci book, but being german, it is accurate, so yes I would recommend it. Here is the flysheet. the book is for reading not studying. It is a good read. And note Fritzch had an earlier book too, along with many other properly scientific publications. However it is not about tensor calculus. If you are interested in that I would recommend Visual Geometry and Forms By Needham. It's much more up to date than MTW. But this is a digression if you really want to explore books on these subjects, we should do it in another thread. Markus had a thread like that when he was (self) studying the stuff.

I couldn't quickly find any graphs going further back. But I did post information relevant to the dates in a subsequent post. You made quite a specific quesiton and are now wandering around in both space and time. The 'Middle Ages' was a particular time period in European history, it did not occur anywhere else. Egypt at the same time was under the control of the growing Moslem empire and, like ancient Egypt quite different. One particular feature of the European middle ages is relevant to you question. At that time people were much more dispersed, there were almost no large cities. In the country people lived in houses that were two story high. The ground floor was used, especially in winter, to house livestock. People lived on the first floor above the animals, using the rising heat to warm the upper floor in winter. This close proximity must have led to the poor hygene referred to elsewhere. In England parish records go back this far so fair estimates of the ages at death can be made; many cemetaries have gravestones for children remaining to this day.

Interestingly there is a book by a german professor of Physics, the late Harald Fritzsch, on this very subject.

References ?

There is no need to apologise, but thank you for noting your background. I think it is very important to note my warning about language though because there are so many words that have different meanings in scientific and general discussions and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the intended use. For instance it is very clear when someone wants to talk about the 'Field of Baroque Music', that this is a general not scientific use of the word Field. But a person who is used to encountering such usage may be tempted to think he knows what Field means scientifically. We see many threads based on this simple misconception.

What the difference between sentience and cognitive capacity ?

Perhaps you would like to explain what is behind this question ? The ancient Chinese development fell bewteen the two stools of algebra and geometry so you have a case in point if you study that for an answer. Have you read Johnny Ball's book wonders beyond numbers ? You will find an unbiased introduction there.

With respect a layman is someone who knows little about the subject in consideration. She may be an expert in chinese painting and sculpture nonetheless. But I take you point the the Op needs to brush up on his mathematics and physics before pontificating on definitions used by others.

Just a small niggle. 'resonated' has a very specific meaning in science, which is not the way you have used it. It seems to me that one of the characteristics of 'drawing on every source' is that an AI will encounter and then adopt a lot of flowery common English with non scientific meanings to the scientific detriment of the output.

The thing is I would expect anything (alive or inanimate)) that can respectably called 'intelligent' to do more than just solve problems set by others.

Do you have a prediction for the cirtical temperatures of either of your candidates ? Did you test you method of prediction on any known (relatively) high temperature superconductor compound, say HgCa2Ba2Cu3O8 (mott temp 133K) ?