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Andrew Barto (left) and Richard Sutton (right) have won the 2024 Turing Award. | Image: Association for Computing Machinery Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption. University…
If an out-of-control trolley is racing toward four AI engineers, potentially killing them, is it ethical for AI to throw a switch so only one engineer is killed instead? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Chatbots canât think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well. In mid-February…
Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant and head coach Mike Budenholzer were caught in an intense moment during the team’s victory Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Clippers. Durant walked back to the bench when it appeared Budenholzer was trying to tell him something. Cameras caught Budenholzer grabbing Durant’s arm and the star basketball player ripping…
President Trump‘s signature “weaving” skills were on full display during his joint address to Congress. Throughout his record-long speech, Trump incorporated his unique communication technique he has dubbed the “weave” during recent media appearances, a lengthy aside often used to support a broader point he is trying to make, to highlight some of the biggest…
Maine state GOP Rep. Laurel Libby applauded President Donald Trump’s remarks on keeping biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports on Tuesday night in his speech to a joint session of Congress. Libby was censured in the Maine House of Representatives over a social media post that pointed out a transgender athlete had won…
President Donald Trump promised on Inauguration Day to “protect American workers,” and a month later, he’s off to a solid start. But there’s plenty left to do. He started by ending the diversity, equity and inclusion programs that have been undermining workplace cooperation and fairness. Second, he secured U.S. borders, so millions of illegal immigrants are no longer crossing into America, swelling the low-wage labor…
The new Digg looks a lot more like 2025 than 2005. | Image: Digg Sometime last fall, Kevin Rose started thinking seriously about Digg again. A smidge over two decades ago, he’d launched a social and link sharing website that, for years, was known as “the homepage of the internet.” Since then, Digg had been…
1. What you may have missed from Trump’s address to Congress. 2. Trump promises ‘this will be our greatest era.’ 3. Freshman senator blasts Trump on kitchen table issues in Democratic rebuttal. KICKED OUT – Democrat removed from House chamber after disrupting Trump’s speech. Continue reading … FACING JUSTICE – Trump says US apprehended ‘top…
President Donald Trump continued pushing the idea of America acquiring Greenland on Tuesday night, devoting a small portion of his speech to the topic while delivering remarks before a joint session of Congress. Trump declared that the U.S. would welcome the people of Greenland if they decided to join America. “And I also have a…
In a surprise announcement Sunday night, the U.S. Treasury Department put out a press release that could save tens of millions of small businesses from being treated like financial criminals and risking jail time and massive financial penalties. The release, titled, “Treasury Department Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Against U.S. Citizens and…