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“The Big Numbers argument notes that our galaxy, the Milky Way, has something like 400 billion stars, and it’s just one of untold billions of galaxies in a universe that might be infinite…. With so much turf out there, even the most frowny-faced skeptic must admit it’s hard to run the numbers in a 13.8

“… two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.”Some at OpenAI believe Q* (pronounced Q-Star) could be a breakthrough in the startup’s search for what’s known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks…. Though only performing

Said Alison Holt, the sister of Geoffrey Holt, the subject of “He lived a quiet life — then donated $3.8 million to his small N.H. town” (WaPo).[Geoffrey] Holt worked as a social studies and driver’s education teacher and in a grain mill before retiring and moving to the trailer park, where [he worked] as a