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The authors, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, mean that very literally: a superintelligence — an AI that’s smarter than any human, and smarter than humanity collectively — would kill us all. Not ...

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A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter ...

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So, TerraPower nuclear. It’s this company that Bill Gates started, aiming to really shake things up in the energy world. They ...

These days, Tomsk Polytechnic University is hosting celebrations dedicated to the important anniversary date – the 75th ...

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