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Snowbound

“Travel may be very difficult or impossible,” the bulletin said as a gray front of clouds rolled in, with as much as 16” of snow in the forecast. By the following morning, the roads being at least theoretically clear, the “or impossible” had been removed, but nevertheless the occasional town plow truck was the only...

Live Wires

If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in artificial intelligence, now would be a good time to start. While I remain a skeptic of the idea that we will have a computer program capable of thinking like a human anytime soon, I am convinced that AIs built for more discreet tasks, from generating...