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Stuart Russell: Will we choose the right objective for AI before it destroys us all? Filter Bubble

Stuart Russell: Will we choose the right objective for AI before it destroys us all?

Russell outside the ballroom at the Hilton on Wednesday, mobbed by audience goers wanting to ask questions. "A lot of people operate on the assumption that it's only when we make machines that are conscious that we will have a problem," he says. "You can make super-intelligent machines, and it…
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February 13, 2020
Tesla is raising $2 billion in fresh funding — 15 days after Elon Musk said the company didn’t need to (TSLA) Elon Musk

Tesla is raising $2 billion in fresh funding — 15 days after Elon Musk said the company didn’t need to (TSLA)

Tesla is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in fresh funding through a new stock offering, it said Thursday. The new prospectus comes two weeks after CEO Elon Musk said it "doesn't make sense" to raise new money in Tesla's current condition. Musk will buy up to $10 million of the…
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February 13, 2020
Natalie Portman responded to Rose McGowan calling her Oscars cape with female director names ‘deeply offensive’ Black Swan

Natalie Portman responded to Rose McGowan calling her Oscars cape with female director names ‘deeply offensive’

Rose McGowan called Natalie Portman's Oscars cape, which featured embroidered names of female directors whose work wasn't nominated by the Academy, "deeply offensive" in a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday.McGowan wrote that the cape is "the kind of protest that gets rave reviews from the mainstream media for its bravery,"…
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February 13, 2020
ONGC Videsh: In your face Air Pollution

ONGC Videsh: In your face

DescriptionThe objective of the campaign was to tell people that the harm we bring to the environment has a direct bearing on us. It may not look tangible in the short term but in the long term, the damage is permanent. Using tan lines, which are not pretty, we showcased…
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February 13, 2020
Battle for Budapest: Russian MoD Declassifies Files on Brutal Campaign for Hungarian Capital Stalingrad

Battle for Budapest: Russian MoD Declassifies Files on Brutal Campaign for Hungarian Capital

Kicking off in late October 1944, the Soviet offensive to liberate the Hungarian capital turned into a brutal slog in the streets of the city between the Red Army, fanatical local fascists and crack German troops, serving as a final ‘dress rehearsal’ for the April 1945 operation to take Berlin.The…
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February 13, 2020