Mix Google developers, magic and a black cat and you get Magic Cat Academy, a mini-game not unlike a famous wizard. To celebrate key dates, historical figures or major annual celebrations, Google does not lack imagination. The developers compete in ingenuity and create doodles as wacky as they are playful and colorful. Thus, they had … Read more
It’s hard to believe it’s been 11 years since the last Harry Potter movie came out and 15 years since the last book. Even more incredible is that the Battle of Hogwarts took place in 1998, so the supposedly distant future of the Epilogue chapter has already passed. By now, James Potter II will have … Read more
We all remember these photos faked by Stalin’s henchmen to “erase” official photos of his former comrades who had become “class enemies” as the purges and major Soviet trials progressed. At the time, it was assumed a long and meticulous work of some talented illustrators to retouch the silver photos. Well today, on this “easy … Read more
Peut-être était-ce Donald Trump refusant d’admettre qu’il avait tort (sur le lieu de naissance du président Obama, les immigrants, la taille de la foule, les cartes météorologiques, la Russie, Kim Jong-un, le changement climatique, le Covid, la fraude électorale, la semaine des infrastructures – c’est une longue liste), mais comme éviter certaines choses (peau orange, … Read more
2 hours ago Photo credit, The Washington Post via Getty Images image caption, Blake Lemoine assures that LaMDA has a personality, rights and wishes. An artificial intelligence machine that comes to life, thinks, feels and converses like a person. It sounds like science fiction, but not for Blake Lemoine, an artificial intelligence specialist, who assures … Read more
TECHNOLOGY – “LaMDA is aware.” The title of the very last e-mail from the American Blake Lemoine to his employer, Google, sounds like a warning. Rather, it was a plea, a call to care for a creature that could think in its absence. But by taking up the cause of artificial intelligence, Lemoine, a 41-year-old … Read more