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Becoming a Centenarian

The New Yorker

Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year. The author, who was born on December 17, 1925, notes that the magazine's first issue came out ten months before he did. Old age is no joke, but it can feel like one. You look everywhere for your glasses, until your wife points out that you're wearing them. I turn a hundred this year. People act as though this is an achievement, and I suppose it is, sort of. Nobody in my family has lived this long, and I've been lucky. I'm still in pretty good health, no wasting diseases or Alzheimer's, and friends and strangers comment on how young I look, which cues me to cite the three ages of man: Youth, Maturity, and You Look Great. On the other hand, I've lost so many useful abilities that my wife, Dodie, and I have taken to calling me Feebleman. Look, up in the sky! No, it's Dodie doesn't want me to know how old she is, but she's nearly three decades younger than I am, and I become ...


The great debate : MAN vs. AI - doDie.in

#artificialintelligence

This Monday, the world saw a grand finalist of 2016's World Debate Championships face off against IBM's Project Debater – a computer considered to be the world's first artificial intelligence system built to debate humans. The event was organized by a non-profit debate-hosting company with the topic "whether preschool should be subsidized. Natarajan spoke in favor whereas the Project Debater spoke against it. Even though Natarajan won, the computer provided mind blowing statements and arguments. Project Debater has been in development since 2012.


First citizen of Mars could be an Artificial Intelligence: Elon Musk - doDie.in

#artificialintelligence

Elon Reeve Musk, a tech genius known for his remarkable achievements in science & technology. Musk is mainly known as the CEO of Tesla, Neuralink and SpaceX. He founded SpaceX on May 6, 2002 i.e. 16 years ago with aim of reducing space transportation costs and initializing the process of colonization of Mars. When we often talk about colonization of Mars, we simply imagine a scenario where humans are living on the "Red Planet". You might have seen movies where humans leave the Earth in search of other Earth-like planets for colonization.