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BEACHES Black Pearl Sings at ABET

Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents Black Pearl Sings. a drama about a white song collector for Library of Congress meeting Pearl, an Africian-American prisioner in Texas, 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:00 p.m. Sunday from Jan. 23-Feb. 8 at Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, 716 Ocean Blvd. For tickets or more, (904) 249-7177 or abettheater.com.

BEACHES Bowl-a-Thon coming

The Exchange Club of Jacksonville Beach will host a Bowl-A-Thon to strike out child abuse and support Beaches charities at 12 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at Beach Bowl, 818 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach. For more, (904) 329-0663.

BEACHES Beaches Watch welcomes new members

Beaches Watch Inc., a nonprofit nonpartisan civic organization that promotes and facilitates educated citizen involvement in local and state government decisions, welcomes new members. Membership dues at $10 per individual and $15 for families. For more, beacheswatch.com.

CLAY SAFE Animal Shelter welcomes donations

SAFE Animal Shelter, 2913 Clay County Road 220, Middleburg, always can use donations of dry and wet cat food, dry grain-free dog food, cat litter, laundry soap, bleach and paper towels. Volunteers also are welcome. For more, (904) 276-7233.

CLAY Bingo night

The Church of the Good Samaritan, 3813 Old Jennings Road, Middleburg, hosts bingo night 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31. Bingo cards are $1 each, and prizes are offered for each winning game. Event is open to the public.

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Astronomy – Ch. 17: The Nature of Stars (35 of 37) Determining the Mass of of a Binary Star – Video

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Bill Gates is a passionate technology advocate (big surprise), but his predictions about the future of computing aren't uniformly positive.

During a wide-ranging Reddit "Ask me Anything" session-- one that touched upon everything from his biggest regrets to his favorite spread to lather on bread -- the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist outlined a future that is equal parts promising and ominous.

Midway through the discussion on Wednesday, Gates was asked what personal computing will look like in 2045. Gates responded by asserting that the next 30 years will be a time of rapid progress.

"Even in the next 10 problems like vision and speech understanding and translation will be very good," he wrote. "Mechanical robot tasks like picking fruit or moving a hospital patient will be solved. Once computers/robots get to a level of capability where seeing and moving is easy for them then they will be used very extensively."

He went on to highlight a Microsoft project known as the "Personal Agent," which is being designed to help people manage their memory, attention and focus. "The idea that you have to find applications and pick them and they each are trying to tell you what is new is just not the efficient model - the agent will help solve this," he said. "It will work across all your devices."

The response from Reddit users was mixed, with some making light of Gates's revelation ("Clippy 2.0?," wrote one user) -- and others sounding the alarm.

"This technology you are developing sounds at its essence like the centralization of knowledge intake," a Redditor wrote. "Ergo, whomever controls this will control what information people make their own. Even today, we see the daily consequences of people who live in an environment that essentially tunnel-visions their knowledge."

Shortly after, Gates was asked how much of an existential threat superintelligent machines pose to humans.

The question has been at the forefront of several recent discussions among prominent futurists. Last month, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race."

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Artificial intelligence research for at least the foreseeable future is going to help humans, not harm them.

Artificial intelligence research for at least the foreseeable future is going to help humans, not harm them.

However, fears about artificial intelligence (AI) and the development of smart robots that have made headlines recently could slow research into an important technology.

That's the thinking from AI researchers and industry analysts attending the AAAI-15 conference in Austin, Texas, this week.

"People who are alarmed are thinking way ahead," said Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI. "The thing I would say is AI will empower us not exterminate us... It could set AI back if people took what some are saying literally and seriously."

AI risks whether current or far in the future were the topic of many conversations at the annual AI conference since a scientific and high-tech luminaries recent raised red flags about building intelligent machines.

Early in December, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview with the BBC that the development of "full artificial intelligence" could bring an end to the human race.

While Hawking said artificial intelligence today poses no threat to humans, he added that he worries about the technology advancing to the point that robots and other machines could become more intelligent and physically stronger than people.

Those statements sent ripples across the Internet since they came about a month after Elon Musk, CEO and co-founder of SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors, created headlines when he said artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity.

"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence," Musk said at an MIT symposium in October. "With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories with the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's sure he can control the demon. It doesn't work out."

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