The Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Russia has suffered a series of attacks from these Ukrainian Kamikaze drone boats, or USBs. The idea is that paint jobs like the ones on the SN should make it just hard enough to cause confusion and create some chance they will go for something low value rather than a warship. Then there's the other idea that this might also actually help the ships avoid satellite tracking.

After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predictions that Vox, a far-right party, might enter government failed to materialise. Russia’s navy is repainting its vessels in a bid to frustrate munitions powered by artificial intelligence (10:03). And why the push to invent outlandish ice-cream flavours such as ketchup is deeply misguided (17:59).

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