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Gary Marcus and Anka Reuel argue that global governance must be prioritised to address the risks of bias, misinformation or worse

Gary Marcus and Anka Reuel argue that global governance must be prioritised to address the risks of bias, misinformation or worse | By Invitation

Space Engineers goes to war in latest patch and DLC The Space Engineers are going to war! The developer behind this impressive sandbox space game is finally taking a stab at the way warfare is handled, with a new patch and mini-DLC pack that, between them, revamps infantry combat. Update 1.198 overhauls the mechanics around ground combat, with new weapons – including two new rocket launchers and three new pistols – and new gun mechanics that bring the infantry combat more in-line with what ...

In graduate school, Gebru used Google image data to infer political positions from populations based on simple items—for example, the breakdown of types of vehicles people owned. After completing her PhD at the Stanford AI Lab, Gebru worked at Microsoft in its Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI (FATE) lab and later at Google, where she researched items such as bias in facial-recognition software. Most recently, Gebru left Google; she claims she was fired for a critical ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A new study applies machine learning to the fossil record to visualise lifes history, showing the impacts of major evolutionary events. This shows the long-term evolutionary and ecological impacts of... view more  Credit: J. Hoyal Cuthill and N. Guttenberg. Charles Darwins landmark opus, On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally brea...

Charles Darwin’s landmark opus,  On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” In fact, scientists now know that most spe...