scorching temperatures set to last for days. amid the heat, in massachusetts, 911 services knocked out statewide for hours. and in the west, dozens of wildfires burning. a state of emergency in new mexico. evacuate. foedo and the warning in texas. the first potential tropical storm of the ar taking aim. al roker is tracking it all also tonight, president biden s new executive action shielding 500,000 undocumented spouses of u.s. citizens from deportation. who will qualify? and republicans attacking the pl a nesty. boeing s ceo on capitol hill, testifying for the first time since that door plug blowout. the dramatic moment in the room. his apology to mi omax ash victims, and the grilling he ced after yet another boeing whistle-blower comes forward. justin timberle arrested in the hamptons for dwi. the mug shot just out. what he allegedly told the officer about how much he had to drink. and the celebration is on in boston. the celtics bringing home their record 18th nba
Lake Wales Deputy Chief Troy Schulze by James Coulter After 27 years in law enforcement, Deputy Chief Troy Schulze has retired from the Lake Wales Police Department. Schulze recalls two important childhood memories that inspired him to follow his career path. The first memory was of a long-retired officer Joe…
AI canât replace humans, but the technology is making inroads in more and more business sectors.
In an oft-quoted interview with Life magazine in 1970, Marvin Minsky, an MIT researcher and pioneer in artificial intelligence, predicted that scientists were about three to eight years away from creating a machine as intelligent as the average human. Such a machine would âbe able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight,â Minksy said, and it would learn at such a âfantastic speedâ that it would reach genius level within just a few months.
Fifty years later, Minksyâs vision of a machine on par with the human brain still hasnât been realized â but popular AI tools, such as Googleâs search engine and Appleâs Siri, have become part of everyday life, and machines are learning how to master an array of complex tasks, from operating self-driving cars to spotting tumors to monitoring crops.