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On land
A young boy learns about land vehicles from bicycles to subways and trolleys as he and his father travel to the train station.
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Escaping Al's Magic Black Box
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The artificial intelligence (AI) technology of chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) is magical in just this sense. Speak a magic word to summon the AI and your wish is granted, with no explanation of how your preferred genie-ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri-does (or sometimes doesn't quite do) the trick. There are two sorts of magic: the supernatural magic of genies and demons, and the natural magic of magicians and escape artists such as Houdi-ni. Engineering technology should be of the second kind. Although a small number of users believe that their chat-bot is the voice of God, most accept it as the magic of engineering. What is unusual about LLMs today, however, is that the engineers themselves are not quite sure how the AI works; LLMs are spoken of as mysterious black boxes.
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Banning Lethal Autonomous Weapons: An Education
Lethal autonomous weapons systems--commonly but misleadingly known as \"killer robots\"--are weapons systems that, once activated, can attack objects and people without further human intervention. With more than a dozen nations working to develop highly capable versions of them for use in the air, at sea, and on land, these weapons are not science fiction: they exist now, and they are already being used in some current conflicts. Since 2014, the United Nations has held discussions around a treaty to ban autonomous weapons systems (AWS). So far, in addition to the UN secretary-general and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 30 countries have declared support for such a treaty. But the US and Russia have combined forces to prevent any discussion of a legally binding instrument. Instead, in 2021 the US called for a \"non-binding code of conduct.\"
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I love you for miles and miles
Describes the depth, height, and steadiness of one's love for another by comparing it with the deepest drill, tallest crane, and steadiest tugboat.
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Richard Scarry's busy busy cars and trucks
Hit the road with an exciting array of vehicles, from cement trucks and pickle cars to motorcycles and fire trucks!
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Posthuman Gothic Tale
It is at the intersection of Posthuman thought, Gothic narratives, and the New Weird mode where “Two Houses” from Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble (2016) can be framed. In the story, six female astronauts alternate years of hibernation and moments of wakefulness in search of a habitable planet. The House of Secrets spaceship is controlled by the AI Maureen. Isolated in space, the astronauts amuse themselves by telling ghost stories. Through the stories, the reader is gradually dislocated from the recognizable landscape of a technologically plausible speculative fiction story to be plunged into a Gothic world of murder, haunted houses, and ghosts. The purpose of this paper is to trace the intersection of Posthuman thought and Gothic characteristics in the story to discuss the slippery relationship between what we believe we are and what we actually are.
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Search and spot : go!
Invites the reader to look for various vehicles and related items hidden or camouflaged in the illustrations.
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Step Into the Free and Infinite Laboratory of the Mind
Aliens! Killer robots! Spaceships! For a long time, Finn saw science fiction stories in a fairly conventional way--as a touchstone or a starting point for a conversation about a topic such as artificial intelligence (Terminator or I, Robot) or genetic engineering (Gattaca or Frankenstein). These stories act as a kind of collective shorthand, one that gets a crowd on the same page before conversation turns to the \"real\" challenges facing society. That was before the future became his job. When he founded the Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) at Arizona State University in 2012, he began to understand science fiction as part of an important feedback loop with real scientific and technological innovation. Science fiction and science are both engaged in exploring the adjacent possible: the worlds many might be able to reach from their present configuration of science and society. Writers and researchers scour the literature, looking for ideas that might be combined or extended in novel ways, and both groups are in the business of creating new stories or new concepts that might change the world.
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