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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Now, in a new book, IEEE Fellow Stephen Grossberg argues that an entirely different approach is needed. Grossberg attempts to explain in his nearly 800-page book how “the small lump of meat that we call a brain” gives rise to thoughts, feelings, hopes, sensations, and plans.

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

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The reports have focused on microtrends in consumer behavior; the fifth anniversary edition report— Looking Further with Ford: 2017 Trends —revisits three that surfaced in earlier reports, and highlights seven that are emerging. Sustainability Blues (2014): The 2014 trend book addressed the world’s increasing concerns about water.

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Tesla Model Y becomes a hotel amenity thanks to ride-sharing platform Envoy

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For the first time, Envoy is launching at a hotel, previously building its EV share offering in multifamily housing communities and office buildings. Visitors at the Mondrian luxury hotel will be able to book the Model Y through the Envoy Mobility app, giving them easy access to an electric vehicle without hefty fees.

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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He authored or cowrote textbooks including Lasers and Electro-optics and Building Scientific Apparatus. He then was honored with the 2017 IEEE Kaufmann Award for outstanding contributions to industrial systems engineering. It was the first of three books he would write on power and mechanical engineering. He joined IEEE in 1963.

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What Is Generative AI?

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It can also theoretically generate instructions for building a bomb or creating a bioweapon, though safeguards are supposed to prevent such types of misuse. It’s the transformer architecture, first shown in this seminal 2017 paper from Google , that powers today’s large language models.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

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In 2017, after taking charge of the Tata Group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran had mooted the ‘UniEVerse’ initiative, keeping sustainability at its core. Because of the support of Tata Motors — the passenger and commercial vehicle business, along with JLR — we were able to build the whole ecosystem for EVs,” he said.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. I’ve read it.

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