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Culture We asked an artificial intelligence bot to write Hanukkah movies
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Fast Forward Artificial intelligence unlocks a new secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Technology has enabled new insight into ancient documents that have fascinated and often mystified scholars of Jewish and religious history since their discovery around 70 years ago. Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands used artificial intelligence to analyze the longest text of the Dead Sea Scrolls, running at 24 feet long and…
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Fast Forward Soros Cites Nazis To Warn World About Peril Of Artificial Intelligence In China
Billionaire financier George Soros blasted China for its progress on artificial intelligence, hoping to “warn the world” of the threat it imposes, BuzzFeed News reported. Soros directed his speech at world leaders on Thursday at his annual dinner during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which criticized China’s development of an automated “social credit…
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Life Welcome To The Machines
The waking fantasy of the ages is that some external force will take care of all our needs. And, for those who rightly eschew slavery in all its forms, that has meant hoping for a scientific invention or dreaming of some magical intervention. But there’s a catch. As a writer, I yearn for an automatic…
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Culture 20 Years Ago, Deep Blue Beat Garry Kasparov — And Changed The World
On May 11, 1997, something utterly unexpected happened to then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov: He conceded defeat in the last of six chess games with the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, losing the match. It wasn’t the first time Kasparov had faced off with a machine. In 1985, he beat 32 computerized opponents at the same…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Calls For Closer Ties With China After State Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walked the Great Wall of China at the end of a state visit to China. During the visit, which ended Wednesday, the University of Haifa signed an agreement with the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, a Chinese conglomerate, and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences that…
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Fast Forward Marvin Minsky, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Dies at 88
Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence pioneer who helped make machines think, leading to computers that understand spoken commands and beat grandmasters at chess, has died at the age of 88, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said. Minsky, who died on Sunday, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the school said. Minsky had “a monster brain,” MIT colleague…
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