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Animals vs. humans vs. machines: who’s got smarts?

(credit: MIT Press) “What makes machines, animals, and people smart?” asks the subtitle of Paul Thagard’s new book. Not “Are computers smarter than humans? or “will computers ever be smarter than humans?” or even “are computers and animals conscious, sentient, or self-aware (whatever any of that might mean)?” And that’s unfortunate, becausethough most people are […]

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Iran behind Assumed”Proud Boys” voter-intimidation Mails, Feds allege

Expand / FBI Director Chrisopher Wray talking at a media conference in Washington, DC, on October 7. (charge: Jim Watson | AFP | Bloomberg | Getty Images) We have less than fourteen days to go before the national voting deadline to the elections on November 3, and essentially what is, as most anticipated, hitting the […]