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Last week’s defeat at Gillespie prevented the Southwestern Piasa Birds from adding 2021...

Piasa Birds come back strong after flatten the curve (w/ 11 photos) Greg Shashack, gshashack@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of17 Southwestern’s Megan Bailey (left) smiles at first base coach Amanda Edwards after Bailey’s RBI single gave the Piasa Birds a 1-0 lead over Edwardsville in a May 12 game in Piasa.Greg Shashack / The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 2of17 Southwestern catcher Abby McDonald (left) throws to first for an out while third baseman Bri Roloff backs up the play during...

On Thursday evening, Penn States Student Farm Club hosted a panel of alumni who did some form of agriculture-related service after graduation. The panel, which was called "Strengthening the Corps: Advancing food system sustainability through Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and FoodCorps," featured three alumni - one from each service organization. The three panelists discussed their experiences serving with these organizations and how current agriculture students can get involved. The panel was held ov...

February 24th, 2021 Simpsons / 20th Century Fox AI and ML systems have advanced in both sophistication and capability at a staggering rate in recent years. They can now model protein structures based only on the molecule’s amino-acid sequence, create poetry and text on par with human writers — even spot specific individuals in a crowd (assuming their complexion is sufficiently light). But for as impressive as these feats of computational prowess are, the field continues to struggle with a n...

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The Alphabet company terminated Meg Mitchell who co-headed the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, following the dismissal of her former colleague Timnit Gebru

Google fires researcher Meg Mitchell, escalating AI saga Google is trying to move past the disarray in its AI division, but on Friday the upheaval showed no sign of letting up. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press) Bloomberg Print Google fired the lead of its Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, Meg Mitchell, escalating the turmoil surrounding its AI division after the acrimonious exit of Mitchell’s former colleague Timnit Gebru. “I’m fired,” Mitchell tweeted Friday, a minute after sa...

You’re certainly right about the spending drop in the bucket. But overall I still think it’s probably a waste. If the objective is some kind of human landing or achieving a base on Mars, isn’t this pointless? NASA has concluded that Mars can’t be terraformed. And why send a few human beings to a desolate rock? That said, I deeply believe in space exploration. In fact, I’d pour a lot more money into it. But rockets aren’t the answer. They can’t take us to anyplace worth going to. W...

Google has evidently fired the founder and co-lead of its Ethical AI team, Margaret Mitchell. This comes after weeks of being locked out of her work accounts over an investigation related to Mitchell’s objections concerning the controversial firing of her fellow co-lead Timnit Gebru. I’m fired. — MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) February 19, 2021 According to a […]

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Employees in Googles AI research division have delivered a set of demands to management after the recent ousting of AI ethicist Timnit Gebru from the company. Employees ask that Google offers Gebru her position back at a higher level, while demanding that a manager is removed from the reporting chain. They also ask for Google to publicly commit to academic int...