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A slew of articles are claiming that an “exasperated” artificial intelligence snapped at its programmer during a conversation about morality and ethics. Sadly, it’s another example of the media overselling the capabilities of simple chatbots. In his Wall Street Journal article, “Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Programmer,” Amir Mizroch reports on a recent…
That title is not hyperbole. This literally shocked me. Son of Batman, an animated movie, is pretty much exactly what the title suggests. And this scene, in which Batman finds out he has a son, is one of the more bizarre and uncomfortable on-screen moments I’ve ever seen. Son of Batman is the animated version…
The people of Greece are already feeling the pinch from the latest economic crisis. “My wife went to the supermarket,” says Greek political correspondent, Christos Michaelides. “She told me that most of the shelves were empty — especially those with pasta, especially those with rice. Also milk, eggs and a lot of canned foods like…
If we know one thing about the media business right now, it’s that hardly anyone wants to be just a publisher any more. Everyone would much rather be a platform—or, failing that, hook up with a giant platform like Facebook FB that can achieve the kind of social distribution required in today’s media environment. For…
IN 2013 Alejandro García Padilla, the governor of Puerto Rico, did his best to tell the territory’s jittery creditors what they wanted to hear. He called servicing the American-controlled Caribbean island’s $72 billion debt load a “moral obligation”. He reassured holders of its general-obligation (GO) bonds that the government could not default on them even if…
Shutterstock Human: what is the colour of blood ? Machine: it is the same as a black eye . Artificial intelligence just got threatening. A chatbot has learned how to hold a conversation by analysing millions of movie scripts, allowing it to muse on the meaning of life, the colour of blood, morality and…
ZURICH/LONDON Unusual public confirmation that the Swiss National Bank intervened to weaken the franc escalated its battle to rein in a currency whose strength amid Greece’s debt crisis is hamstringing an export-reliant economy.”We have always said that we are active in the foreign exchange market if necessary,” SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan said at a financial…
Up until a few weeks ago, I worked at a historic site in the South that included an old house and a nearby plantation. My job was to lead tours and tell guests about the people who made plantations possible: the slaves. The site I worked at most frequently had more than 100 enslaved workers…
Greece… mattered!! The market be like… * * * It began as FX markets opened ugly in early Asian trading, but once stock markets started to open, the focus shifted there… Japan spanked… Nikkei 225 down 730 points from Friday’s close… China collapsed… When Europe opened it was ugly in stocks… …