Joe Biden, 76, jumped into the political race to the White House with a message of — Donald Trump is racist? Not exactly the sort of inspiring call that brings you to your feet, hands a’clappin’, feet a’stompin’. But OK, Charlottesville is good, too. “The core values of this nation, our standing in the world,...
First off, who cares if Mayor Pete Buttigieg is gay. That’s his business; that’s his personal choice. This is America and in the bubble of his South Bend, Indiana, home, Buttigieg is quite free to live his life as he chooses. But since the mayor-turned presidential hopeful has made his gayness a front-and-center campaign issue...
The Democrats have made it clear they’re not going to let go the contents of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report without giving it the full impeachment treatment — without scouring for any trace elements that could give them the means to topple this White House. This is unfortunate. The Mueller investigation gives two opportunities for...
IBM has developed artificial intelligence that can predict, with a reported 95 percent accuracy, when employees are just about to quit their jobs. Super snoopy surveillance? Or smart technology that can actually benefit both business and employee? The jury’s still out. It’s all in the ultimate application. The justification for the “predictive attrition program,” as...
Google dissolved and disbanded its artificial intelligence ethics advisory board, just a week or so after its creation. Why? In brief: Heritage Foundation. In brief, the LGBTQ movement couldn’t stand the thought of a conservative on the council, so the LGBTQ movement did what it always does: It cried and petitioned and unleashed a public...
A true-life movie of a former Planned Parenthood executive who changed her views of abortion and jumped into the pro-life camp was just released to both box office fanfare and Twitter shunning. It’s a real left-right moment. A real showdown of left-right ideologies in culture and politics. On one hand, half in America are pulling...
The European Court of Human Rights, in 2016, found that artificial intelligence could predict the outcomes of cases heard by human judges with a 79 percent accuracy rating. Great. But perhaps the better lead would be this: Artificial intelligence used in the European Court of Human Rights failed to accurately predict outcomes in 21 percent...
Hofstra University students have called for campus authorities to cart off a statue of Thomas Jefferson, saying the Founding Father was a slaveowner and therefore racist and therefore ought not be honored in the public sphere. Guess the Declaration of Independence he wrote ought to go then, too — yes? That’s where this is headed;...
