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Teaching AI Common Sense

Teaching AI Common Sense

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, just announced a new multi-million dollar research initiative to teach artificial intelligence “common sense.” His initiative is called Project Alexandria and is geared toward creating a central database of knowledge for AI. In the...

Musk and Pinker Disagree on Threat Posed by AI

Musk and Pinker Disagree on Threat Posed by AI

Last week, a brief feud erupted between two of the brightest thinkers on the topic of human progress: Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and tech CEO Elon Musk. It began with a recent interview of Pinker in Wired (for his new book Enlightenment Now), where he said...

Ban Ki-Moon Takes New Leadership Role in Sustainable Development

Ban Ki-Moon Takes New Leadership Role in Sustainable Development

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was appointed President and Chair of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) last week. His appointment was agreed upon unanimously by the GGGI Assembly. In this new role, he will help lead the GGGI in its mission to reduce...

Women in Data Science Conference at Harvard

Women in Data Science Conference at Harvard

This Monday, March 5th, the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference will be held at Harvard University. This conference was founded to educate and connect data scientists, and especially to empower women in the field. This event is open to the public and will be...

SpaceX Launches First Broadband Internet Satellites

SpaceX Launches First Broadband Internet Satellites

SpaceX just launched two test satellites, Tintin A and Tintin B, which the company and its head Elon Musk hope will be the beginning of a space-based broadband network dubbed Starlink. Both launched on a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket and were orbited successfully. “First two...