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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere. The article, written by reporter John Markoff, ends with a quote from Geoff Hinton: "The point about this approach is that it scales beautifully. In many ways we already have."

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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It started out as a means of running Amazon’s own platform and has since grown into a company that offers similar services to other companies and even university researchers. This article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currencies.” Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

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Freddy II was completed in 1973 as one of a series of research robots developed by Donald Michie and his team at the University of Edinburgh during the 1960s and 70s. University of Edinburgh More people joined the team to build Freddy Mark 1.5, Stuart Sutherland of the University of Sussex and Roger M.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Even this article keeps showing the old futuristic version model which GM said can’t be done. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM. — Goodbye 2.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. The following article has more info on these great electric cars: [link] — Green Machine42 1 2 Next » Add your comments.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam sent between buildings at the University of Maryland.

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