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...there's been little worry of wily computers inventing ways to outsmart (and replace) their owners. The annoying little paperclip in Microsoft Word is no great testament to the progress of artificial intelligence. But the claim that computers can't create has been challenged by two recent experiments, in which the output of computer programs--rigid algorithms with little room for intellectual freedom--was judged to be indistinguishable (or even better!) than the attempts of unconstrained human imaginations. In other words, originality may be a little more unoriginal than we thought...
...wouldn't necessarily argue that voting booths be done away with and that church basements be replaced by Compuserve. But for those of us who are 3,000 miles away, automatic absentee ballots seem the least that technology can do for me. In the meantime, I'll poke a paperclip through some paper and hunt for a stamp...
...downhill to invite the Americans to come and capture Peenemünde's top rocketmen. (Says Magnus: "I was the youngest, I spoke the best English, and I was the most expendable.") The U.S. Army was delighted to accept that invitation and, in a project known as Operation Paperclip, selected Von Braun and 120 of his best team members to go to the U.S. under contract with the Army to build rockets...
...published-and even in the city rooms of many of the papers themselves. He has never made a public speech in his life, he uses a briefcase for his main office, and he carries in his left-hand coat pocket a sheaf of memo paper, held together by a paperclip, showing the status of his papers' cash account. Although he is a registered Democrat, many of his eleven dailies-scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse, 59, who in the past ten years has moved...
...thing the Air Force was sure of: Schreiber's six-month contract as a consultant expired last week and it will not be renewed. The Air Force bucked Schreiber back to Operation Paperclip, which had no way of pronouncing him guilty or innocent either, but which might send him home...