Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), interacts with Sudanese refugee children in Egypt. Sherif appealed to the global community to empower girls in crises to receive the education, training, and resources they need to improve their knowledge and skills base in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). …
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Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely | MIT News
If someone advises you to “know your limits,” they’re likely suggesting you do things like exercise in moderation. To a robot, though, the motto represents learning constraints, or limitations of a specific task within the machine’s environment, to do chores safely and correctly. For instance, imagine asking a robot to …
Pro-Life Org Sounds Alarm On ‘Extreme’ Agenda To Eliminate ‘ALL Limits On Abortion’
Kamala Harris By Jaryn Crouson A prominent pro-life group is warning Republicans about the “extreme” abortion platform of the Democratic presidential ticket, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) sent a memo, obtained by the DCNF, to GOP candidates, leadership and state leaders about Vice President Kamala …
Decolonization Has No Limits – American Renaissance
In 2019, I wrote about the concept of “State Conquest,” in which the cultural basis of a state is not just subverted but reversed. The religion becomes the opposite of what it was. The ethnic core changes, replaced by the traditional enemy. Heroes become villains, and even basic symbols such …
Biden Admin Official Pressured WPATH To Nix Age Limits On Sex-Change Procedures For Minors, Emails Reveal
Rachel Levine (Image: Biden-Harris transition team official portrait) By Harold Hutchison Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health to remove age limits from child sex-change procedures, court documents reveal. Emails show Levine feared that keeping the recommendations limiting the initiation of certain procedures …
New study finds AI-generated empathy has its limits
Conversational agents (CAs) such as Alexa and Siri are designed to answer questions, offer suggestions — and even display empathy. However, new research finds they do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user’s experience. CAs are powered by large language models (LLMs) that ingest massive amounts of …
Africa Pushing Limits To Boost Renewable Energy Supply Chain, Security Access — Global Issues
Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid is the current African Union (AU) commissioner for Energy and Infrastructure. She believes that cross-border approaches are critical for clean energy affordability. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (abu dhabi) Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Inter Press Service ABU DHABI, Apr 17 (IPS) – Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and …
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers … source
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“No Limits On What He Will Do” – Why Lula is Extremely Dangerous For Brazil
In this short clip, Patrick Bet-David, Glenn Greenwald, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana discuss Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio … source
‘We’re hitting new limits.’ North Carolina quantum computing bullish on a coveted breakthrough
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When Jungsang Kim came to Duke University in 2004, he wasn’t sure he’d live long enough to witness quantum advantage: the elusive moment when a quantum computer outperforms a classical computer to solve a real-world problem. Back then, the emerging field was more theoretical. The experimental …
Progressive judges are gutting tax limits contained in state constitutions
For generations, Washington State had no state income tax, because of anti-income tax provisions in its state constitution. But the Washington state supreme court recently upheld a classic example of an income tax — a state tax on income from capital gains — by making the absurd argument that a capital …
Rufo’s Counter-Revolution and Its Limits
Credit: rufo.substack.com Christopher Rufo, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, Broadside Books, 2023, 352 pp. America’s Cultural Revolution is essential reading. No other book so quickly and comprehensively explains the specific figures and ideologies responsible for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) monster that has consumed American …
Breaking through the limits of stretchable semiconductors with molecular brakes that harness light
Research Image. Credit: POSTECH Like the brakes that stop cars, a molecular brake exists that can prevent semiconductor chains from slipping, enabling the creation of more groundbreaking devices. Recently, a joint research team led by Professor Kilwon Cho and Ph.D. candidates Seung Hyun Kim and Sein Chung from the Department …
