STEM-Talk
IHMC production, scientist conversations: metabolism, neuroscience, aerospace and AI, questions lean toward experiments and data
1:17:36After Near-Frontier Models Go Open Source, What Moat Do Closed Labs Have Left
If Chinese open-source models can close in on the American closed-source frontier in a matter of months, then ‘our model is the strongest’ is no longer a moat — what's actually valuable is ecosystem, reliability and workflow integration.
1:39:07AI companies shouldn't get Section 230 immunity, and hallucination isn't a bug waiting to be fixed
Ken argues that because generative AI synthesizes new content with the source in the model itself, it looks more like a publisher than a neutral platform; and hallucination is closer to confabulation in neuropsychology, a risk built into how the system works.
1:10:47Traumatic brain injury is an energy crisis, and ketones can bypass the broken glucose metabolism
After traumatic brain injury the brain first burns glucose in overdrive, then settles into long-term glucose hypometabolism — and ketones do not depend on that damaged pathway, and also suppress neuroinflammation. This explains why ketone metabolic therapy can act on epilepsy, psychiatric disorders and addiction at the same time.