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[applause] i nt9 i am james barrat thank you for being here. Also to cspan this is such a great bookstore i remember when the books were only sold in bookstores and it captures those when i was the kid. But very rich and fascinating. Also such a great meeting place. Thank you for inviting me. Documentary Film Producer by National Geographic channel here is some that are available on netflix. With Artificial Intelligence what i am here to talk about what it is and why i think they think it is dev...

Documentary filmmaker james barrat talks about runaway Artificial Intelligence. Mr. Barrat argues we are headed into the future in which machines will be able able to outthink humans and may eventually view is in the same way we view lower life forms today. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] hi. I am james barrat and i want to thank mary and jenice for inviting me here and i would like to thank cspan for being here. I think this is such a great bookstore. It is good to remember when books real...

Commissioner mar. This item came up about a month or so ago. We thought it was a good thing that this department become involved acknowledging all the work our staff do, but especially our staff who really do exemplary work. We wanted to start an employee of the month program, but actually its a little bit of a misnomer because we dont think we have the resources to pick an employee of the month. I think the original idea is that we will just start it kind of quarterly and with the caveat that t...

Item 7c, update permit tracking system. Good morning, commissioners. Vivian day, special assistant for technology. And im pleased to announce that were still currently on track with permit tracking system. In fact, were a little bit ahead of the game. Weve completed as per your agenda package, weve completed all of the prioritization of the change orders requested beyond the initial configuration stage for the actual system. We will they were very minimal in nature. Weve also completed all the i...

Have us like happened the last time where, you know, everybody was delighted, we finally got somebody permanent. And a few months later, you know, the job was given to somebody else. She did a fine job. I would hope this time the finished product is a decision where somebody takes the run and stays for sometime and we all have continuity. Thank you for your time. Thank you, inspector. Next speaker. Seeing none. Okay. Well go back to the motion. Ill do a roll call vote on that motion. President m...

A Software System that was designed and installed that is extremely difficult and it has some issues in business practice. In other words, when like if pamela were doing, and shell be up here, but fa if she was doing a process it has to lack at what are the rules. This thing doesnt, its very difficult and theres recognition all throughout the city that this has caused problems for a lot of departments and those are the kinds of things were running into. Its not reluctance on the part of the enti...

Initiatives and coming transaction. Weve got a lot going on in parra transit. Munis has been providing parra transit since 1978 long before ada required it in 1990 and we are proud of that fact. Many elements of our Transit Program exceed the requirement of the ada and we have to meet them in many cases. We are proud of that. We are also proud of the fact that our transit corridor council, our Advisory Committee has been working with us so we have a long relationship in working to improve the sy...

Plastic tiles along the left and the concrete tile on the right. Again, its the same bright yellow and actually when its in place, its very difficult to tell the difference. And then the last slide is information of how to contact me if you need to. Again, i also have my business cards here on the side table. Read it out for the record. Ken spiel men, department of public works project manager. My email address. Kenneth do the spiel man sfgod. Org. My phone number 4154377702. With that i will co...

Flee the country at a rapid rate. Among them is one refugee, who says he was the only man to escape a firing squad near the city of aleppo. He has since fled to turkey. James reynolds has this report. Muhammed olli works at a petrol station in southern turkey. Customers barely notice him. But the man selling chris has one of the most astonishing selling crisps has one of the most astonishing stories to tell. He tells me he was stopped at a checkpoint in the city of aleppo in august. The militiam...

Rebels, filmed here by the bbc, go after suspected pro government militiamen. They are accused of carrying out mass killings. They put us all on our knees, all 21 of us. They began firing. I fainted when they shot at us. I woke up after 10 or 15 minutes and saw the gunman the gunmen meeting and i saw everyone around me was dead. I was hit by five bullets, one in my shoulder. One of them is in my year. Two in my leg and one in my hip. Government and rebel forces still fight for control of the bus...