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Sex, love and robots — is this the end of intimacy? - Raw Story
Raw Story
Raw Story
David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home ...
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Sex, love and robots — is this the end of intimacy? - Raw Story
Raw Story
Raw Story
David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home ...
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Sex, love and robots: is this the end of intimacy? - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home ...
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Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are committing $1 billion to OpenAI to ... - Next Big Future
International Business Times
Next Big Future
In the early days, people thought that solving certain tasks (such as chess) would lead us to discover human-level intelligence algorithms. However, the solution to each task turned out to be much less general than people were ... The group's other ...
Non-profit research company, OpenAI, backed by Elon Musk, Sam AltmanTV Newsroom
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Reel Boston - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
REMEMBERED FOR: Multi-image technique swiped by director Norman Jewison from Expo '67, Michel Legrand's groovy theme song, “The Windmills of Your Mind,” chess used as a game of seduction. WHERE IT WAS SHOT: Everywhere. The Walter Mirisch ...
Researchers create a computer program that learns the way humans do - Napa Valley Register
Napa Valley Register
... a central fact of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) research for decades. If you cram enough data into a machine, and let the algorithms grind away tirelessly, the computer can detect a pattern, produce a desired outcome and perhaps beat a grandmaster ...
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Page & Panel brings comic book culture to the Toronto Reference Library - Toronto Star
Toronto Star
Toronto Star
It's easy to see why it stuck around — after all, where else in the city could a shopper snag a Jane Eyre mug, a Walking Dead foam-dart crossbow, a chess set inspired by Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Gilbert Hernandez's Marble Season in hardcover or a ...
Will Trump's Muslim comments boost Christie's chances? - NJ.com
NJ.com
NJ.com
David Paleologos, the director of polling at the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston notes that as of mid-November, Trump supporters gave Christie some of the highest favorability ratings of any GOP candidate running for president ...
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Why Cultural Capital is a Great Gift - International Policy Digest
International Policy Digest
International Policy Digest
In a research article, Dr. Thomas Abel says that “it is concluded that cultural capital is a key element in the behavioral transformation of social inequality into health inequality.” That is ... So, this holiday season, in addition to purchasing ...
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Library hosts International Games Day - Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Current and prospective computer science students and the general public ahd the opportunity to see what projects the University's Innovation in Computing Research Labs (iCORE) students and other computer science students have been working on. They ...
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The science of learning: five classic studies - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
A classic study defines where research will go next – whether to confirm, disprove or qualify the original finding – and helps us to reorganise our learning to be more effective. .... His studies of how chess experts think began the modern study of ...
Careers Nova Scotia Profile: Librarians - TheChronicleHerald.ca
TheChronicleHerald.ca
TheChronicleHerald.ca
But while she likes all aspects of her busy job in a public library, the best part for her is meeting new people and helping them, whether it's to find a good book to read, get started on genealogical research, or find a program. “When I first started ...
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from ... - GeekWire
GeekWire
GeekWire
OpenAI is a non-profit foundation tasked with expanding research and practical application of AI tech. As the introductory blog post notes, AI has been used to solve some very specific problem, like how to win a chess match, but those advancements ...
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Why the Max Planck Institute Wanted to Cook Up Plasma in its Fusion Reactor - Inverse
Inverse
Inverse
Fusion has long been the golden calf of nuclear energy research, showing up nuclear fission in all categories except feasibility. Fusion produces a colossal ... In years before super-computers played chess, trashed humans at Jeopardy, and folded ...
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Elon Musk And Sam Altman Launch OpenAI, A Nonprofit That Will Use AI To ... - Fast Company
Fast Company
Fast Company
"Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact," the blog post reads. "We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly ...
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from ...GeekWire
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The New Education Bill May Not Improve Student Outcomes - Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
Jaden Perez, 8, participates in a chess-geography lesson at Discovery Elementary School in Sunrise, Florida August 29, 2014. ... Fortunately tons of private philanthropy dollars are being poured into research to try to figure it out. The bill does not ...
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This week in Scottsdale: 50 Cent, Jedi Academy and Pickleball Clinic - Scottsdale Independent
Scottsdale Independent
Scottsdale Independent
All proceeds from the auction and event will benefit the Arizona Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to support Arizona children living with cancer by supporting research and providing travel assistance to children who have to travel ...
Still no deal as congressional budget talks limp forward - Fox 59
Fox 59
Fox 59
But a source close to the negotiations told CNN the Democrats' new push to include the language on gun research wasn't part of the talks up until Thursday, so the public push was viewed as a sign that both sides still had a lot of outstanding issues to ...
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Prima Asta di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Artribune
Artribune
Artribune
Da segnalare infine una ricca selezione di Arte Contemporanea, ancora una volta con artisti italiani e internazionali: una fusione di Pop Art e Street Art nelle opere di Marcel Dzama, Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber e Massimo Gurnari, un nuovo ...
Retirees play their way to a sharper mind - Bend Bulletin
Bend Bulletin
Bend Bulletin
During the last two summers, Wieder has flown to Missouri to spend four days at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis watching even better players compete. “It's like sending your brain to the gym,” he said. Wieder plays in tournaments in ...
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