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Bill Gates Launches $1M A.I. Competition to Tackle Alzheimer’s
Observer ^ | 08/19/25 | Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Posted on 08/20/2025 7:04:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 08/20/2025 7:04:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“...a figure expected to rise as AI eats brains.”


2 posted on 08/20/2025 7:05:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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This is an easy one... Stay away from AI and exercise your brain...


3 posted on 08/20/2025 7:07:18 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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More than 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease—a figure expected to rise as life expectancies increase. To help accelerate progress, Bill Gates and a coalition of partners are backing a new A.I. competition designed to spur breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s and related dementia research.

That doesn’t sound promising. :-[

4 posted on 08/20/2025 7:14:52 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Into the wood chipper we go!


5 posted on 08/20/2025 7:16:22 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Run!!!


6 posted on 08/20/2025 7:22:04 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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Hey, if your conscience is bothering you, inventing some computer thing will not redeem you. That hell you are feeling is HELL. Try to find your humanity. Not so artificial game. oh, and please go inject yourself


7 posted on 08/20/2025 7:24:33 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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BKMK


8 posted on 08/20/2025 7:24:36 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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I am sure they can come up with an AI that mimics someone with alzheimers.

/sarc


9 posted on 08/20/2025 7:33:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I actually give the guy a tiny bit of credit for this effort.

It’s tiny, though.


10 posted on 08/20/2025 7:34:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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Only 1 million? Cheap SOB, isn't he?

11 posted on 08/20/2025 7:50:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Tackling Alzheimer’s is a matter of minimizing exposure to aluminum and fluorine. Both toxic and ubiquitous


12 posted on 08/20/2025 7:54:07 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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What a dumbass.

Just give me the million$ and it will go away without big pharma (but it will never happen).

Alzheimer’s is a race to the bottom, enriching a handful.

Don’t contribute.


13 posted on 08/20/2025 8:42:02 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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Hhmmm...wonder if he has had some recent interesting medical tests...


14 posted on 08/20/2025 8:42:05 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Demo rats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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Oh my god! Bill Gates is spending “one MILLION dollars!”

Isn’t that an Austin Powers joke?


15 posted on 08/20/2025 8:44:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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His Alzheimers?


16 posted on 08/20/2025 8:56:33 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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What? Has Bill Gates stopped killing Africans and others with his specially designed vaccines?


17 posted on 08/20/2025 8:57:21 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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AI is not some super intelligence that has or can decipher the biochemistry of human thought. The brain is 90% phospholipids.Just how those fats churn in the cranium and create human thought and higher intellectual function is unknown. Modern science thus far has virtually no understanding just what biochemical reactions occur to create thought or behavior. Nor does science really know the real mechanism of drugs that modify or interact with those chemical actions. AI is only an accumulation and ordering of known science which is believed to be true. Until that biochemistry is understood, AI cannot find a cure . If humanity is fortunate an ethical empiricist may find some approach to Alzeimers long before the biochemistry of thought is truly understood and what actually goes wrong with dementia.


18 posted on 08/20/2025 9:18:54 PM PDT by allendale
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Just hand me the million. My results will be just as effective.


19 posted on 08/20/2025 9:23:16 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Thank you, Trump, Musk, Leavitt....)
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One Million dollars from Bill Gates???

That's the equivalent of me or you having a penny in our pocket and losing it... What a generous dude he is.

And it's all because his 94 year old father died from Alzheimer's... WTF?

20 posted on 08/20/2025 11:14:10 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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