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There are reasons to doubt whether autonomous systems can appropriately judge the need to engage, react to threats proportionately or reliably discriminate between combatants and civilians. Also, when you get complex software systems interacting, there is huge potential for unforeseen consequences. A vivid example was seen on Amazon in 2011 when pricing bots raised the cost of a book, The Making of a Fly, to over $23 million.

But instead of trying to pry him away from his machine or coaxing him outside to get some fresh air, his mother, Barbara Ackerman, had another solution: she suggested that he drop out of high school to be home-schooled. “I saw him at school all day and absorbed all night into his computer,” said Ms. Ackerman, reached by phone Monday afternoon. “It became very clear that David needed the space to live his passion. Which was computers. All things computers.”

Les vrais collabos, ce sont les personnes qui aident les grandes entreprises à frauder le fisc sans rien dire.

It is everywhere. You are reading this from it. We are so used to it, it may come as a shock that still 14 per cent of British adults have never used the internet. The latest figures released by the ONS show that internet use in the UK is up from last year, but 7 million Britons remain unconnected.

La coupure d’accès à internet, dernière des sanctions graduées prévues actuellement en cas de téléchargement illégal, devrait être supprimée par décret “extrêmement rapidement, dans le mois qui vient”, a précisé lundi la ministre de la Culture, Aurélie Filippetti.

« Mais excusez-moi mais qu’est-ce que ça veut dire “ euclidien ” ? Quel est l’intérêt, franchement, d’apprendre ce terme aux enfants ? De mon temps, on n’apprenait pas ça et on vivait aussi bien ! »