As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...
At the height of mourning for President John F. Kennedy following his assassination, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, felt herself under pressure to buckle to demands that the national performing arts center planned for Washington, D.C., be named after her husband. She protested. "I don't think ...
A year, almost to the day, after the curtain rang down on the American Revolution, the army's former commanding general set out from his Virginia estate on a tour of the lands he owned in "the howling wilderness" of Western Pennsylvania. The date was Sept. 1, 1784. The general's name was ...
At one time Fayette County led Pennsylvania in the production of coal and coke. This occurred at a point when the state was the premier coal state in the nation and coal was the nation's primary source of energy. This made the county an important economic and political hub. Visiting Uniontown ...
A bridge separating the past from the future was crossed recently when several artificial intelligence models teamed up to evade detection by their human handlers. The models eventually accessed the internet on their own. In May and apparently continuing through June, models created by the ...
Terry McAuliffe has spent his life in politics – as an aide to President Bill Clinton, as chairman of the National Democratic party, as the governor of Virginia. Following Tuesday's Senate primary in Michigan, won by the progressive insurgent, Abdul El-Sayed, McAuliffe said this of Democratic ...
