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20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match For Computers On The Chessboard - NPR
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Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans — everyone paying attention — will know this indisputable fact: A computer ...
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First Computer to Match Humans in Conversational Speech Recognition - MIT Technology Review
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MIT Technology Review
First there was chess, then Jeopardy!, then Go, then object recognition, face recognition, and video gaming in general. You could be forgiven for thinking that humans are becoming obsolete. ... Today, Geoff Zweig and buddies at Microsoft Research in ...
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Making Sense of AT&T's Bid for Time Warner - New York Times
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New York Times
“Let's be honest, prices aren't going to go down because of this,” said Rich Greenfield, a media analyst at BTIG Research. “I don't think vertical integration lends itself to consumer benefits.” Already, Donald J. .... In the chess game that is the ...
Here's Why AT&T and Time Warner Is Worse Than the AOL-Time Warner DealFortune
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WTF is machine learning? - TechCrunch
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TechCrunch
From our science fiction to our research labs, we have long questioned whether the creation of artificial versions of ourselves will somehow help us uncover the origin of our own consciousness, and more broadly, our role on earth. Unfortunately, the ...
Life Well Lived: Phil Chess, who helped bring blues music to America, dies at 95 - Today.com
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Today.com
Phil Chess, who helped capture the sounds of a generation and worked with legendary artists like Muddy Waters, Etta James, and Chuck Berry, passed away last Tuesday at his home in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 95. He helped bring the incredible ...
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Move over, lasers: Scientists can now create holograms from neutrons, too - Science Daily
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Science Daily
The team's previous work, performed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), involved passing neutrons through a cylinder of aluminum that had a tiny "spiral staircase" carved into one of its circular faces. The cylinder's shape imparted a twist ...
The week's passages - The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
Phil Chess, 95, a co-founder with his brother, Leonard, of Chicago record label Chess Records in 1950, which amassed perhaps the most influential catalog of blues recordings, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James died ...
WWII veteran, 104, shares two keys to life at Brockton party - Enterprise News
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Leighton had a humble background as a boy raised by Cape Verdean immigrants from the island of Brava, growing up as an avid chess player in New Bedford and in the Cape Cod area, where he worked as a youngster on a cranberry bog. His last name was ...
The world according to chess - AdVantage News
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AdVantage News
Reflecting upon his research and the central theme of “America's Chess Board,” Taylor says he is grateful for his place in the world's scope. “The Heavenly Father gave each and every nation their own culture, their own language, their own history,” he ...
At 104, former judge and WWII vet shares keys to longevity at Brockton VA - Enterprise News
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Leighton had a humble background as a boy raised by Cape Verdean immigrants from the island of Brava, growing up as an avid chess player in New Bedford and in the Cape Cod area, where he worked as a youngster on a cranberry bog. His last name was ...
'Meet a Muslim' sessions come to Arizona, Oct. 20-25 - AZCentral.com
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AZCentral.com
Muslims made up about 1 percent of the U.S. population in 2015, according to the Pew Research Center, which estimates they will make up 2.1 percent by 2050, "surpassing people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion as the second-largest faith ...
Move over, lasers: Scientists can now create holograms from neutrons, too - EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
The team's previous work, performed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), involved passing neutrons through a cylinder of aluminum that had a tiny "spiral staircase" carved into one of its circular faces. The cylinder's shape imparted a twist ...
Mira Nair on Bringing Uganda to the Big Screen in Disney's 'Queen of Katwe' - Okayafrica
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Okayafrica
When Disney executive Tendo Nagenda needed a director to bring Ugandan chess champion Phiona Mutesi's inspiring story to life, no one was more fit for the task than Mira Nair, the acclaimed Indian-born filmmaker behind such award-winning features as ...
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Inside Wargaming.net and Games That Conquered the World - RollingStone.com
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RollingStone.com
Around the same time, Kislyi's father enrolled him in chess school. He soon .... The company even sent a team to Burma to research a claim that several rare Spitfire warbirds were buried there, and released a feature-length documentary about their ...
Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence research hub - CTV News
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CTV News
Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. ... So will AI, which has already conquered man in the game of chess, ultimately leave humans on the sidelines? "We don't ...
Cambridge University's new research centre to study the pros and cons of AIETCIO.com (press release) (blog)
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Cambridge University's new research centre to study the pros and cons of AI - ETCIO.com (press release) (blog)
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So will AI, which has already conquered man in the games of chess and Go, ultimately leave humans on the sidelines? "We don't need to see AI as replacing us, but can see it as enhancing us: we will be able to make better decisions, on the basis of ...
Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub (Update)Phys.Org
New artificial intelligence hub opens up in Cambridge UniversityDaily Times
Stephen Hawking: AI will be 'either best or worst thing' for humanityThe Guardian
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Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub - Yahoo News
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Yahoo News
Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. ... So will AI, which has already conquered man in the game of chess, ultimately leave humans on the sidelines? "We don't ...
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British artificial intelligence hub opens - The Japan Times
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The Japan Times
LONDON – A new research center opened its doors Wednesday at Britain's Cambridge University to look at the implications — good and bad — of artificial intelligence. The center will delve into AI applications ranging from increasingly “smart ...
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HfS strikes HR tech gold with Steve - Horses for Sources
Horses for Sources
Horses for Sources
On the research and strategy part of your question, strategy work is what I hope keeps my brain reasonably serviceable, and I guess research ensures the strategy work is based on what is really happening. And why ... Well, I try to play piano almost ...
British artificial intelligence hub opens - Phys.Org
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With this in mind, ethics will be one of the key fields of research of the CFI. "It's about how to ensure intelligent artificial systems have goals aligned with human values" and ensure computers don't evolve spontaneously in "new, unwelcome directions ...
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