Millions of russians turn out with portraits of their wartime moves online will tell you. Hello there good morning this is r. T. From moscow its may the 9th the date indelibly etched in russian mights its victory day and exactly 75 years ago nazi germany was defeated in the 2nd world war in europe was over this years commemorations may as mentioned be subdued in size and spectacle but the emotion the pride and the immense gratitude is being felt nationwide nonetheless as the country remembers the incalculable sacrifices made by savia troops and civilians who suffered the biggest casualties. Do you. Really. Even though you may know. June 22nd 1941 and germanys surprise invasion of the u. S. S. R. Started what will become known in russia as the great patriotic war. The nazis had a significant advantage in numbers and military equipment allowing troops to gain vast amounts of territory with little resistance in a matter of months they were of moscows doorstep. But after a series of fierce
Conquer the soviet union known as operation barbarossa he viewed much of whats now Eastern Europe as a site of repopulation for the germans the plan would have meant the extermination of the people already there that was of course the systematic massacre of millions of jews nearly all extermination camps were located in Eastern Europe some scholars estimate almost half of the 6000000 Holocaust Victims were soviet citizens camps are also established for soviet prisoners of war the nazis acted with exceptional savagery in their abuse of captured troops there was shot experimented on with gas or worked to death more than 3000000. 00 soviet prisoners were killed most of them by deliberate starvation. One war crime a was the hunt for about 500 soviet officers who discovered from the motos in nazi concentration camp in austria one of the witnesses to those events was her cult her family managed to save the lives of 2 soviet offices as wright n. T. I. Sarin salad they drove around the village
Good evening everyone and welcome to books and thank you for supporting your local and Employee Owned bookstore. Cspan is here to make sure your phones are in. [silence] i do want to like you know about a couple of other events coming up as my friend reading from his new novel, on tuesday Stephen Kinzer is going to present the history of the cia. We also have some offsite events tickets are Still Available for mondays conversation between selecting a norcal and talking wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary, author of rebooting ai which argues the computer began human in jeopardy does not signal that we are on the dorsum of fully Autonomous Cars are super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains that if we need to advance our intelligence to the next loophole, and suggest that if we are wise on the way, we wont need to worry about the future of machine overlord. He says that finally book that tells us what ai is and its not in what ai could become if
Silence. Tomorrow night the author will be reading from his new novel. On tuesday poisener in chiefs author will be joining us. We will also have a talk on wednesday. We welcome the author of rebooting ai which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy doesnt signal that we are on the doorstep of fully Autonomous Cars or super intelligence machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, if we are wise along the way, we wont need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book what tells us what ai is, what it is not and what it could become if were ambitious and creative enough. Its also been called an informed account. The founder and ceo of robust ai and founder and ceo of intelligence. Hes published in journals including science in nature. Hes the author of guitar zero and rebooting ai. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] uhoh, this is not good. Um, okay, maybe it will be all
All right. Good evening everyone. Thank you for supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. Before we begin, cspan is filming this. Make sure the phones are on silence. Tomorrow night the author will be reading from his new novel. On tuesday poisener in chiefs author will be joining us. We will also have a talk on wednesday. We welcome the author of rebooting ai which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy doesnt signal that we are on the doorstep of fully Autonomous Cars or super intelligence machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, if we are wise along the way, we wont need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book what tells us what ai is, what it is not and what it could become if were ambitious and creative enough. Its also been called an informed account. The founder and ceo of robust ai and founder and ceo of intelligence. Hes published in jour