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From SIRI to autonomous cars, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow rapidly. Today, artificial intelligence is known as narrow AI (or weak AI), as it is designed to perform a narrow task, for example, voice recognition only or only driving a car. “Researchers’ long-term goal is to create artificial general intelligence (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, general AI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.” (Tegmark,…

Usually, when people hear the words self-driving car they instantly think of the future. It’s pretty hard to think what the downsides of getting where you need to go, without doing any work whatsoever, could be, but you’d be surprised how big one of the reasons this wouldn't work actually is. There is a moral problem that comes with the inviolability of the self-driving car. One great thing that self-driving cars promise is the improved safety and minimization of most problems that may occur on…

Have you ever driven a car before? If you have driven a car before then you would know that they driving part of it is the easiest. The hard part is looking out for your surroundings. You always have to worry about the other drivers. Well if we have cars that drive themselves by a computer then everybody would think Hey! That would be nice and easy. But, there are pros and cons of having a self-driven car. Computers could cause fewer accidents, but they could also stop working and go off the…

The classic, honored, and gothic genre author, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his famous works like The Raven, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, and The Cask Amontillado. Some of these stories and poems style could have been influenced by Poe’s past. Before Poe even turned three both of his parents, two professional actors, died. From there he was taken in by Frances and John Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Thenceforth, he was sent to the best boarding schools and later…

Mostly everyone in the world has thought about their future. And some of those people have thought about inventions so great and beyond our lifetime but what if I tell you one of those inventions is coming soon. That invention … is a driverless car. The Creation Driverless cars is the beginning of a new beginning breaking the technology industries itself. The great creation was created by Google engineers and employees, Google companies also tended to the situation. Soon this may lead to…

“Conflict builds character,” as often said by authors, readers, and others alike-- but perhaps some authors build character through the use of conflict better than others, like Edgar Allan Poe (author of many, many short stories and poems but for the sake of this essay, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death”) and Jack London (the author of Call of the Wild), for example. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is the story of a man who kills another, due to being bothered by the the other’s…

I was in a situation that involved inductive reasoning where I had to decide whether a weird sound my car was making was causing other problems in my car. My car had problems in earlier years that sounded the same as the one it was having recently. I was not too sure if taking it to the body shop was the best idea, because I already had taken it once and I thought it was all fix with no more problems to occur, but I was apparently wrong. All I could think of was that I had put my…

When it comes to fun and exciting hobbies there are not many that have more to offer than semi truck racing. While this may not be something that suits you right now, you never know what you will find if you decide to look around. You can earn your truck racing stripes in no time at all if you take the time to look into this hobby and everything that it can bring into your life. Learning more about semi truck racing should open your eyes to what is out there, and why you should get involved. If…

“It’s just a car,” they all say. Only some will understand the attachment oneself can get towards their vehicle. How could you be attached to it? It’s a materialistic thing that will be non-existent in due time. A bunch of metal, rubber, and wiring put together is really all that a car is. This concoction of resources gives me an explosion of emotions that are priceless and very desirable. All it takes is one click of a button and a step inside to unlock these feelings. To me, my car will always…

Simulators are machines that are designed to give a realistic impression of the controls and operation(s), of vehicles and aircrafts which are used for training purposes. They are often defined as a program that enables a computer to implement programs written or made for a different operating system. An example of a simulator is the Tesla Simulator. It is a simulator where you can interact with the different types of cars made by the Tesla Motors (an American car company that designs,…