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the next best thing that Albert Einstein thought was, ‘You create a university because without a university, you won’t go far – because education is the key to life.’” Continuing on the ...

We have all taken an intelligence quotient (IQ) test at least once in our lives. Some of us did it at school. And someone — out of sheer curiosity.

The “Paperclip Maximiser” thought experiment postulates that given the goal of maximising the production of paperclips, an AI will relentlessly pursue it at the expense of humans and the ...

Einstein Rings are a type of gravitational lensing in which the light from a galaxy or star passes a large object, like another galaxy or black hole, and is bent around it. If the alignment is right, ...

The models are based on Einstein’s hypothesis of elements ... “non-local” only in connection with specific experiments and measurements that we model also by computers to illustrate the non-local ...

A similar, more recent thought experiment is the "paperclip maximizer." This imagined AI would pursue its goal of making paperclips so single-mindedly that it would turn Earth and ultimately all ...

Most sharks are thought to be silent because they lack swim bladders — air-filled sacs commonly used by fish to make sounds. MicroCT scans and 3D reconstructions of rig sharks also revealed no ...