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What can Qualcomm do to fend off Broadcom? - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The two tech giants are supposedly wary of Apple's influence over the deal and worried about Broadcom's reputation for cutting costs rather than investing in new technologies, which could interfere with Qualcomm's 5G research. In a research note ...
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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Montana Standard
Montana Standard
Montana Standard
As researchers began to ask computers to solve complex, real-world problems like diagnosing diseases or translating Russian, it turned out that many of these complex problems could only be solved in theory but not in practice. The time and memory ...
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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Motley Fool
Motley Fool
To understand why such a simple game has confounded AI research for decades, it's helpful to contrast Go with chess. For decades, it was said that computers would be intelligent if only they could play chess. Then, half a century after Alan Turing ...
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Why Are Trump's Troops Training ISIS Terrorists? - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 11-14 among 1,001 adults, finds that amid competing claims over the effectiveness of CIA interrogation methods, 56% believe they provided intelligence that helped prevent terrorist ...
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Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Shares Thoughts on AI Developments - Christian Post
Christian Post
Christian Post
Google's AlphaGo, often cited as the foremost example of groundbreaking research into AI, has beaten World Number One Go Player Ke Jie in his own game earlier this May. Ke Jie, who was confident before the match that AlphaGo has no chance to defeat him ...
'I instructed you so,' chess legend Garry Kasparov says on Russian interference within the US election - Kaplan Herald
Kaplan Herald
Then they extended this practice to Russian speaking neighborhoods in the former Soviet Union. Then they tried it in Europe. Eventually they successfully tried it in the United States.” that about 80,000 posts backed by Russia got onto the social ...
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Space science work recognised in New Year Honours - BBC News
BBC News
BBC News
Another to receive a CBE is Dr Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and chief executive officer of DeepMind, a world leading company in artificial intelligence research. The firm's computer programme defeated a human Go player in 2016, in what was seen as a ...
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2017 Data: Pew Research Shows People Fear Robots Taking Jobs - Breitbart News
Breitbart News
Breitbart News
Neural-networked artificial intelligences are already dominating games of immense complexity like Chess and the ancient Chinese game of Go. Their next challenge is the exponential increase in action complexity of a live game like Blizzard's Starcraft ...
It Was a Big Year for AI - Slate Magazine (blog)
Slate Magazine (blog)
Slate Magazine (blog)
“Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” said Dhruv Batra, visiting research scientist from Georgia Tech at Facebook A.I. Research, in an interview with FastCo Design. While this got a lot of blowback in the ...
Vanity and some old habits - Manila Bulletin
Manila Bulletin
Eye Associates Research lab report: Based on their clinical findings, EAR released their newest product, Nuviante Eyelash Enhancer. EAR claims that its clinically tested formula contains enzymes, peptides, anti-oxidants and vitamins essential for lash ...
Gravitational waves, gene editing and other top science stories of 2017 - The Hindu
The Hindu
The Hindu
In January, Libratus, an artificial intelligence computer created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University defeated four top class poker players. In March, “AlphaGo”, Google-run artificial intelligence (AI), defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol ...
When Spock Met PLATO - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
And now here he was in the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The voice was the same. It was him. But it wasn't. Those tiny ears! Nimoy and his entourage made their way down the first-floor hallway, past ...
When Spock Met PLATO - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
And now here he was in the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The voice was the same. It was him. But it wasn't. Those tiny ears! Nimoy and his entourage made their way down the first-floor hallway, past ...
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2017: The year AI beat us at all our own games - New Atlas
New Atlas
New Atlas
For much of the 20th century, the game of chess served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence researchers. John McCarthy, who coined the term "artificial intelligence" back in the early 1950s, once referred to chess as the "Drosophila of AI", in a ...
Saudi ban on Israeli chess players underscores limits of Gulf relations - The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel
A 2016 study by the Middle East-focused Zogby Research Services found that 100 percent of over 1,000 people surveyed in Saudi Arabia held an unfavorable view of Israel, and 100 percent also said it was not important for their country to have good ...
Qatar, Iran players to get visas to play in Riyadh: World chess bodySaudi Gazette
Ukraine's chess grandmaster Hanna Muzychuk confirms decision to skip Saudi blitz tournamentUNIAN
Chess federation says Israel excluded from Saudi-hosted matchTODAYonline
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Researchers: Artificial Intelligence is dumber than a 5-year-old and no smarter than a rat - TechStartups.com (blog)
TechStartups.com (blog)
We've all heard or read about how robots are going to take away our jobs. Saudi Arabia even went as far as granting citizenship to “Sophia the robot” back in October (See the video below). With crytocurrency at the top of daily headlines, 2017 may be ...
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Stanford University Researchers: Artificial Intelligence is dumber than a 5-year-old and no smarter than a rat - TechStartups.com (blog)
TechStartups.com (blog)
TechStartups.com (blog)
We've all heard or read about how robots are going to take away jobs. Saudi Arabia even went as far as granting citizenship to “Sophia the robot” back in October (See the video below). With crytocurrency at the top of news headlines, 2017 may be ...
Ukraine's chess grandmaster Hanna Muzychuk confirms decision to skip Saudi blitz tournament - UNIAN
UNIAN
UNIAN
This means we will never have the beams back, although they themselves are an object of cultural heritage – they should have been preserved. And according to the UkrNIIrestoration [Ukrainian Research Institute for Restoration], it was necessary to ...
Qatar, Iran players to get visas to play in Riyadh: World chess bodySaudi Gazette
Chess federation says Israel excluded from Saudi-hosted matchTODAYonline
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Cal Ripken's favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
First, I insist on distinguishing between movies that are really about chess, of which there are very few, and the countless films that use chess as a prop. For real chess movies, I'd recommend the recent “Queen of Katwe,” about the girl Phiona Mutesi ...
Qatar, Iran players to get visas to play in Riyadh: World chess body - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
The King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship will be held at the iconic Apex Convention Center in at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh. Awarded for its state of the art architecture, it has been designed by ...
Saudi ban on Israeli chess players underscores limits of Gulf relationsThe Times of Israel
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