Leela Chess Zero is an open source adaption of Deepminds AlphaZero, a chess engine based on artificial neural networks, and learns by playing chess against itself...stunning progress in only some month of work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_Chess_Zero
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‘Dead zone’ larger than Scotland found by underwater robots in Arabian sea
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Ray Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years
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AI Experts Boycott South Korean University Over 'Killer Robots'
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China already starts to test geoengineering in Tibet to let it rain more often...
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"About 3.6 billion people are estimated to be living in areas with a potential for water scarcity for at least one month per year, and this number could rise to as many as 5.7 billion people by 2050, according to a report published by UNESCO."
Water Shortages Could Affect 5 Billion People By 2050, UNESCO Warns
UNESCO/ UN- WATER Press Release N o.2018- xx PDF
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AI translates news from Chinese to English and reaches human performance, another milestone says Microsoft.
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Luddites start to attack self-driving cars in California, and a Robot learns how to flee from violent kids, maybe it is time for some kinds of defence system?
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German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse discussed the mechanism of an feedback between computation result and executed program in 1983 in his lecture "Faust, Mephistopheles and Computer" and coined the term Devils Wire.
In the early days of computer history, the program to compute and the data to compute on was separated.
Nowadays computer use the same memory for both, so it is possible to write programs that manipulate their own program.
Zuse says, that behind every technology Mephistopheles stands behind and grins, but the modern world needs computers to solve actual and upcoming problems, but better, read the lecture by yourself...
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