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The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. We need to stay calm — and develop a new te...

The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. We need to stay calm — and develop a new test.

Instructor:  Teaching Fellow: Gal Koplewitz, galkop@gmail.com. Office hours: Thursdays 3-4, Maxwell Dworkin second floor lounge. This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present. It is meant to be a synthesizing experience for advanced students in computer science: a way for them to see the field as a whole, not through a survey, but by reliving the experience of its creation. The idea is to create a unified view of the field of computer s...

The Joint Center for Economics brings a quantitative approach to economic history. In May 1968, the university’s students wanted to change the world. Left-thinking ideologies like Maoism and socialism were in their minds, and “Vietnam” was on their lips. They went on strike, skipping classes and exams. They rioted and clashed with police. One student was killed, 900 arrested. If this sounds like a scene from Kent State, where student demonstrators were killed two years later, that is beca...