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When Spock Met PLATO - WIRED
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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
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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)
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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
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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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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 ...
Chess federation says Israel excluded from Saudi-hosted matchTODAYonline
Qatar Grand Masters to skip Saudi chess event10,000 Couples
Saudi Arabia denies Israeli chess players visas for worldwide competition in RiyadhGkMen
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Artificial Intelligence: Dumber Than a 5-Year-Old, No Smarter Than a Rat, Researchers Say - PJ Media
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PJ Media
Artificial intelligence may be smart enough to learn the game of chess or flip hamburgers in a fast-food restaurant. But when it comes to common sense and decision-making skills, AI is way below the bar compared to adult human beings. The “AI Index ...
World's 'strongest open chess events' start in Riyadh tomorrow - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
The events are being organized by General Sports Authority in cooperation with the World Chess Federation (FIDE) at the iconic Apex Convention Center at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Notable entries include World ranked No. 2 ...
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World's 'strongest open chess events' start in Riyadh tomorrow - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
The events are being organized by General Sports Authority in cooperation with the World Chess Federation (FIDE) at the iconic Apex Convention Center at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Notable entries include World ranked No. 2 ...
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Chess federation says Israel excluded from Saudi-hosted match - TODAYonline
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TODAYonline
ATHENS - Israeli players have been denied visas to participate in a speed chess championship hosted by Saudi Arabia this week, a vice president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) said on Sunday. Seven Israeli players had requested visas for the ...
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Novel computational approach launches new paradigm in electronic structure theory - Phys.Org
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... the University of Cambridge and director of Electronic Structure Theory Group in the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart; George H. Booth, Royal Society Research Fellow in King's College London; and Alex J. W. Thom, Royal ...
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Top female grandmaster takes on man's world of chess - CNN
CNN
CNN
At 16 Hou became the youngest-ever female world champion, on account of her winning the Women's World Chess Championship. She held on to the tile from 2010 to 2011, and won it again in 2013 and 2016. While Hou is currently the highest-ranking female ...
Top female grandmaster takes on man's world of chess - CNN
CNN
CNN
The video player encountered an error. Rapid vs Blitz: The world of speed chess 00:30. For standard games she says there is time to research your opponent and devise a strategy to win, draw or simply play. When it comes to speed chess formats, there is ...
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Checkmate humanity: In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in ... - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
And the programs can develop distinctly worrying ideas. A system developed in America for probation services to predict the risk of parole-seekers reoffending was recently discovered to have quickly become unfairly racially biased. DeepMind certainly ...
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As Artificial Intelligence Advances, Here Are Five Tough Projects for 2018 - WIRED
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WIRED
Alphabet's champion Go-playing software evolved rapidly in 2017. In May, a more powerful version beat Go champions in China. Its creators, research unit DeepMind, subsequently built a version, AlphaGo Zero, that learned the game without studying human ...
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Free-riders?: US research funding for diseases causes other countries to back out, new study finds - Duke Chronicle
Duke Chronicle
Duke Chronicle
Researchers looked at funding data from Policy Cures and the World Health Organization for 15 neglected parasitic and infectious diseases—including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy and meningitis—from 2007 to 2014. The data showed that the U ...
The biggest AI stories of 2017 - Axios - Axios
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The NFL, poker playing, and other groundbreaking developments as identified by researchers.
Researchers Reveal Secrets of Libratus Poker AICasino.Org News
How an AI program bested professional poker players in Texas Hold ...GeekWire
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