Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 9 minutes, setting at 5:05, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:56. The Moon, 1 day before first quarter, will set at midnight.

As the constellation Orion rises in the evening, the Native Americans around here would say the Winter Maker is rising, we are waiting for the glory of the winter constellations to appear and the bright Moon to disappear from the evening skies. I thought I’d talk about another topic this week. I am interested in, but really don’t know the depth of detail about: AI, artificial intelligence or what I’d rather call machine intelligence. It seems to me that there are a lot of folks being hooked on talking to these AI models such as ChatGPT and others as somebody or something that’s sympathetic to them. AIs are what you might call book smart or really Internet smart, but they’re not street smart. They were literally born yesterday, with all the wisdom that entails.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.