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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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World Chess Hall of Fame - STL.News
The World Chess Hall of Fame is located in St. Louis, Missouri and is aimed at exploring the relationship between art and chess. To do so, the World Chess Hall ...
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 ...
JHSC Chess Team Brings Home National Competition Trophy - Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut
Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut
Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut
This past weekend, The Jewish High School of Connecticut (JHSC) chess team competed at the United States Chess Federation 2017 National Scholastic K-12 Championships in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The team, made up of freshmen Gavriel Genger, Leo ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Crescent City Schools Notes for December 27, 2017 - The Advocate
The Advocate
The Advocate
EINSTEIN CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: Students from Einstein Charter High School in New Orleans placed in top spots at the 2017 Louisiana Scholastic Chess League Holiday Scholastic Chess Tournament hosted by Cajun Chess at Tulane University on Dec. 2. Jimmy ...
Best of 2017: 20 inspiring stories that had a positive impact this year - The Indian Express
The Indian Express
The Indian Express
Coach's letter after 12-yr-old chess champ was kicked out for 'seductive' dress. malaysia, chess, chess champion kicked out for dress, teen chess player kicked out. Her coach said the incident has left the little champion sad and disturbed. (Source ...
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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World Chess Hall of Fame - Central West End - St. Louis, MO - STL.News
Around the region, Dec. 27, 2017 - Republican & Herald
Republican & Herald
Nativity BVM High School will host the 2018 Schuylkill County Scholastic Chess Tournament on Feb. 18, open to all students attending schools in Schuylkill County. There will be thee divisions: grades K to 4, 5 to 8 and 9 to 12. Schools that have a ...
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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