Republican strategist Matt Keelen and Democratic strategist Fred Hicks debate how passing the'big, beautiful bill' will impact the macroeconomy and the upcoming midterm election cycle. Should we be alarmed by the acceleration of "artificial intelligence" ("AI") and the "large language models" (LLMs) AI's developers employ? Thanks to AI I can provide a short explanation of the LLM term: "Imagine AI as a large umbrella, with generative AI being a smaller umbrella underneath. LLMs are like a specific type of tool within the generative AI umbrella, designed for working with text." The intricacies of AI and the tools it uses are the stuff of start-ups, engineers, computer scientists and the consumers feeding them data knowingly or unknowingly.

You don't have to own a robot vacuum or a digital assistant like Alexa or Siri to use artificial intelligence. In fact, AI has become part of our everyday lives in ways we don't even notice, let alone control. When you check your news feed on Facebook or search the internet on Google, you're interacting with AI. It offers great benefits, like robots assisting during surgery, but also gives rise to troubling moral questions. Henley, the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, brings an impressive background to this weighty topic.

The Google-owned computer algorithm AlphaGo is retiring from playing humans in the ancient Chinese game of Go after defeating the world's top player this week. AlphaGo defeated 19-year-old world number one Ke Jie of China on Saturday to sweep a three-game series that was closely watched as a measure of how far artificial intelligence (AI) has come. Ke Jie anointed the program as the new'Go god' after his defeat. AlphaGo last year became the first computer programme to beat an elite player in a full Go match, and its successes have been hailed as groundbreaking due to the game's complexity. Go has an incomputable number of moves, putting a premium on human-like'intuition' and strategy.

By the end of this week, it's a good bet that the world's best player of the ancient Chinese board game Go will no longer be a human being. The Chinese Go champion, 19-year-old Ke Jie - ranked number one in the world - was just narrowly beaten by Google DeepMind's AlphaGo in the first of a three-match series, and if the algorithm's winning form keeps up, it'll be a watershed moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). The latest win, played in the Chinese city of Wuzhen on Tuesday, cements AlphaGo's steady rise to the peak of the professional Go-playing circuit, after celebrated victories over European Go champion Fan Hui in 2015 and South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol last year. After those decisive tournaments, won by AlphaGo 5-0 and 4-1 respectively, it's possible Ke had even less a chance of beating the system than his human predecessors. DeepMind's developers say the tweaked and revamped AI is now more efficient than ever, using 10 times less computational power than the algorithm that trounced Sedol in 2016.

A Google algorithm has narrowly beaten the world's best player in the ancient Chinese board game of Go, reaffirming the arrival of what its developers say is a groundbreaking new form of artificial intelligence. AlphaGo took the first of three scheduled games against the brash 19-year-old Chinese world number one Ke Jie, who after the match anointed the programme as the new "Go god". AlphaGo stunned the Go community and futurists a year ago when it trounced South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol four games to one. That marked the first time a computer programme had beaten a top player in a full contest and was hailed as a landmark for artificial intelligence. This week's battle, in the eastern Chinese city of Wuzhen between Ke and an updated version of AlphaGo, was preceded by intense speculation about whether the world's top player could be beaten by a computer.

A square-jawed Presidential candidate with an embedded RFID microchip in his hand which opens doors for him, riding around the United States in a coffin-shaped vehicle called the "Immortality Bus," sounds like a scene out of a David Foster Wallace novel. That he wants you (yes, you!) to live forever. "The number one platform that we have at the transhumanist party and in my campaign is trying to overcome death with science and technology," Istvan told Digital Trends. "That is the central premise I've been running my campaign on." Like Donald Trump, 43-year-old Istvan is funding his own campaign.

BlinQ is a dating app that has developed a new feature recently. With the help of an AI developed by the University of Zürich, the app now can rank photos by attractiveness on a six-point scale. The worst one is simply "Hmm…" and the best is "Godlike". But let's test it with a bunch of video game (and other) examples and see how well they perform. Wario and Link from the CD-i Zelda games were too much for its face recognition feature (which certainly means they're both way above "Godlike"). But it works with almost everything else.