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ChatGPT Might Have Passed The Turing Test, New Study Suggests
IFLScience· 2 days agoIn 1637, the French philosopher and probable pothead René Descartes came up with an interesting thought: can a machine think? In 1950, the English mathematician and computer
Spokane reaches wits’ end over relationship with regional dispatch center
The Center Square· 3 days agoSpokane Regional Emergency Communications, or SREC, started operating in 2018 and began providing...
With Air Conditioning, Have We Passed the Point of No Return?
The Nation· 3 days agoThe world’s hot future has already arrived in parts of the Global South, thanks largely to past...
A ten-year look back at the Fire Phone, Amazon's innovative flop
Android Police· 2 days agoAfter years of rumors, Amazon announced the Fire Phone on July 18, 2024, a full decade ago today....
“These Relationships Can’t Be Taken for Granted”: How U.S. Ambassador Bijan Sabet, BC ’91, is...
The Heights· 21 hours agoA Wall Street Journal headline caught Bijan Sabet’s attention in mid-March as the diplomat, former...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 3 days agoOn Sunday night, some of the music industry’s finest—and more than a few its faves—gathered to celebrate a year of popular music’s hits at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. “While female voices ...
Allan Saxe, beloved UT-Arlington professor obsessed with philanthropy, has died
Fort Worth Star-Telegram· 1 day agoAllan Saxe, the eccentric former political science professor at UT-Arlington who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars from his modest earnings to dozens of humanitarian causes, has died at 85. “I’m buying immortality,” he said in that 1993 story.
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 days ago“Dollars are fungible with each other,” Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, said recently to explain how money wired to company accounts could b used for more than
Water, sand and humans: everything can be strange
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 3 days agoDavid Hume, the 18th-century Enlightenment philosopher, and librarian at Edinburgh U., once observed “What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’ ...
Retirement Budget: Enjoy your leisure time without breaking the bank
Rome Sentinel· 7 days agoRetirement may mean you have unlimited time to enjoy each day, but it doesn’t mean you have a budget...