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In footage from Russia's flagship propaganda show, a member of Russia's parliament boasts about the nation's military might, before also labelling 2 million Ukrainians as "incurable."The politician, Alexie Zhuravlev, was joined on the talk show by fellow MP and Russian-state mouthpiece Yevgeny Popov, the...
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DeepMind expert suggests the hardest tasks to create a human-like AI are solved
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This week DeepMind unveiled a program capable of achieving over 600...
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