"It was a normal day, just like any other. I was picking up groceries at Jewel and on my way out the door, I decided to buy a lottery ticket," the man said.
For those not conversant in Illinoisan, Jewel is the grocery store.
"Today marks a significant step on the path towards returning humans to the surface of the moon," Russell Ralston, executive vice president of extravehicular activity at Axiom, told reporters.…I guess it's not. All they need now is one of those rocket things.
The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks.
No word on what kind of socks.
(Eastern box turtles apparently sell for up to $1,000 each in China.)
When I ask whether we should be afraid that AIs will soon grow so powerful that they pose a hazard to us, he quips: “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.”
…the sci-fi is still fi.
Way back in the 1970s there was a flurry of excitement for something called expert systems. It was an attempt to make a database of questions and answers so that, for example, a washing machine repairman who encountered a problem on the job could describe that problem to a computer and get advice on fixing it.
I was doing some work for an office machine manufacturer at the time. They thought it would revolutionize their repair service. It didn't. They gave up. Everybody else gave up too.
Today's AI is basically the same thing but with an order of magnitude more answers. And not all of them, by any measure, from experts. It seems to work a little better. But take over the world?
Bet on the cat.
The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port.
And more.
Maybe just some crazy hobbyist, ya think?Last month alone, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said a Chinese state-linked firm hacked 260,000 internet-connected devices, including cameras and routers, in the U.S., Britain, France, Romania and elsewhere. A Congressional probe said Chinese cargo cranes used at U.S. seaports had embedded technology that could allow Beijing to secretly control them. The U.S. government alleged that a former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was a Chinese agent.
But maybe it shouldn't. Happen. Or seem.
The sport’s origin story isn’t exactly politically correct.
