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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

I Saw the Future of the City in Los Angeles. Now, the City Has to Make a Choice.

SlateOct-21-2024, 16:10:33 GMT

I saw two visions of the future in Los Angeles last weekend. First, a Waymo Jaguar I-PACE pulled over to pick me up on a busy street in downtown L.A., spinning lidar sensors mounted on the hood like a second set of side mirrors. We inched comfortably through stop-and-go Saturday afternoon traffic and made an impressive left turn ahead of two lanes of oncoming cars as I said my prayers in the passenger seat. On the other hand, the robot lost its nerve trying to turn right across a crosswalk. As pedestrians cleared and the light turned from green to yellow to red, the Waymo remained fixed to the spot.

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South America > Colombia > Bogotá D.C. > Bogotá (0.05)
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