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Head coach Mauricio Pochettino and the USMNT are on the hotseat as they prepare for their second friendly of September ...
It’s 1962 again, only this time the Cold War pits Democrat against Republican for control of the US House of Representatives ...
Instead of doing one thing very well, artificial general intelligence will do many things very well — if it ever arrives.
Shall we play a game? With California threatening to meet Texas in a nationwide redistricting fight, the possibility of strike-counterstrike scenarios between red and blue states is evoking Cold War ...
Shall we play a game? With California threatening to meet Texas in a nationwide redistricting fight, the possibility of strike-counterstrike scenarios between red and blue states is evoking Cold War ...
No, it’s not the nuclear simulation nightmare faced by Matthew Broderick’s character in War Games (1983) — in this East-to-West escalation of tensions, the driving force is control over the U.S.
From my own experience, building a futuristic world is not about wild imagination. Rather, it’s about predicting the psychological change in mankind and their needs, or else you might turn it into a ...
Free movies show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center ...
There have been many great AI movie villains over the years, such as HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey or Skynet from the ...
Opinion

Our AI Fears Run Long and Deep

Fictional portrayals of computer sentience reveal not only what we want from this technology, but also what we know about the fallibility of humans.
In a sense, nearly all AI literature from the past half-century has been inspired by the science fiction novel "Frankenstein": irresponsible scientists create uncontrollable "monsters" that threaten ...