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| Know your enemy |
| If robots
get too smart
be ready to terminate them,
Cornelia Dean
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| In Isaac Asimov’s collection of stories, I, Robot, robots rise up against humanity. In the classic sci-fi thriller Blade Runner, a bounty hunter must exterminate intelligent androids that are both deadly and very unhappy with their creators. Even in 1920, when the playwright Karel... |
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| Meet
mr fuzzy logic |
| It is rare for people at my age to be interested in science and also make a contribution to it,” remarks Prof. Lotfi Zadeh. He has just presented a paper called “Generalised Theory of Uncertainty”, which, if accepted, will enhance probability theory. And he is just 85. Age has never been a barrier for this engineer turned mathematician — only staid ways of solving
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| Keep the thugs out! |
A friend recently took a broadband connection like many others, and surfed merrily at the speed of light. Till the bill came ? Rs 80,000 was what she was slapped with as extra download charge. The cost of downloading stuff worth 57 GB on a PC with a ... | Read..
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| QED: Science Ambushed |
The vatican did it to Galileo in the 17th Century. The Bush administration is now doing it in the 21st Century: muzzling scientists to prevent them making public uncomfortable facts. George W. Bush and his government would have succeeded but for the j
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Why Corner
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| Why can’t we remember our early childhood? |
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Anybody up for a spinal tap? How about a needle through your ribs to siphon fluid from around your lungs? ... | 
