The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.
Gemini, Google’s new chatbot, has provoked a fierce debate about social values and artificial intelligence. Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source
Biden’s State of the Union Strategy, and Haiti in Crisis
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Eight Teens Are Shot at Philadelphia Bus Stop, Police Say
Eight Philadelphia high school students were shot and wounded as they waited for a public bus after school on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of shootings that have touched off outrage in the city, the police said. The students, who attend Northeast High School, were shot at about 3…
Opinion | Dark Brandon in the House
Enough already: It is time to unleash Dark Brandon on this soul-sucking downer of a presidential race. And the most obvious place to begin is to invite him to the State of the Union address. President Biden is set to deliver his annual address to Congress Thursday night, just two…
Josette Molland’s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps
Josette Molland, who died at 100 in France on Feb. 17, was a young member of the French Resistance during World War II when she was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Nazi forced-labor camps for women. She survived, after witnessing and enduring repeated episodes of brutality. Later, after…
Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100
In the spring of 1943, Josette Molland, a 20-year-old art student, was certain of two things: that she was making a pretty good living creating designs for Lyon’s silk weavers, and that it was unbearable that Germans occupied her country. She joined the Resistance. Fabricating false papers and transporting them…
Profound Damage Found in Maine Gunman’s Brain, Possibly From Blasts
A specialized laboratory examining the brain of the gunman who committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting found profound brain damage of the kind that has been seen in veterans exposed to repeated blasts from weapons use. The lab’s findings were included in an autopsy report that was compiled by the Maine…
Alabama Lawmakers Pass Bill to Protect I.V.F. Treatments
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation to shield in vitro fertilization providers from civil and criminal liability, capping off their scramble to allow the fertility treatment after a State Supreme Court ruling found that frozen embryos should be considered children. But it was unclear whether the protections would be enough…
Winter Heat Waves and Hottest Ocean Ever
Winter was weirdly warm for half the world’s population, driven in many places by the burning of fossil fuels, according to an analysis of temperature data from hundreds of locations worldwide. That aligns with the findings published late Wednesday by the European Union’s climate monitoring organization, Copernicus: The world as…
Chinese National Accused of Stealing AI Secrets From Google
A Chinese citizen who recently quit his job as a software engineer for Google in California has been charged with trying to transfer artificial intelligence technology to a Beijing-based company that paid him secretly, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, who was part of…