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A checkerboard pattern of blue and beige squares features line art of people, abstract graphs, black pixel clusters, fingerprint-like textures, and hints of AI lessons woven throughout the design.
Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
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If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it's a JWST image or any other observatory.
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Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what's the reason why?
A person with a shaved head, beard, and blue-framed glasses—reminiscent of Demis Hassabis—looks at the camera with their hand resting on their face against a dark background.
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We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
A woman in a red dress is gracefully ice skating on a frozen lake.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.