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Ephemeris: 07/24/2026 – AI, a paradigm shift in computing

July 24, 2026

This is Ephemeris for Friday, July 24th. Today the Sun will be up for 14 hours and 57 minutes, setting at 9:17, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:21. The Moon, 3 days past first quarter, will set at 2:15 tomorrow morning.

Astronomy is my hobby. Back in my working days I was a computer systems analyst designing computer software systems for particular tasks, mainly for banks. However I was always interested in the idea of artificial intelligence. The computers I worked with were dumb. They did exactly what you told it to do, whether it was correct or not. So computer errors were really human errors. The current AI, based on neural networks, which are an approximation of what happens in the human brain, are different. Their errors are their own, because they are taught rather than programmed. And to my mind are more than the sum of their inputs. Even the people who design these systems admit they don’t really know what goes on inside. Scary.

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.

A visualization of a neural network, capturing the complex flow of information as it travels through interconnected layers and nodes to process data. Currently, neural networks are simulated by software. Hardware implimenations are currently being perfected, which could lower the power consumption of AI models. Created by Google's Gemini AI.
A visualization of a neural network, capturing the complex flow of information as it travels through interconnected layers and nodes to process data. Currently, neural networks are simulated by software. Hardware implimenations are currently being perfected, which could lower the power consumption of AI models. Created by Google’s Gemini AI.
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