Phone Call Attacks

More and more scams and attacks are happening over the phone. Whenever you get an urgent phone call on the phone pressuring you to do something (such as a caller pretending to be the tax department or Microsoft Tech Support) be very suspicious. It’s most likely a scammer trying to trick you out of money or pressure you into making a mistake. Protect yourself, simply hang up the phone. You are not being rude, the person on the other line is trying to take advantage of you.

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Animated Robots Are Taught To Dress Themselves Using Artificial Intelligence, Aren’t Great At It


Animated Robots Are Taught To Dress Themselves Using Artificial Intelligence, Aren’t Great At It
Computer science PhD students at the Georgia Institute of Technology used an AI technique known as reinforcement learning to help these guys get their shirts on, which turns out to be a very complex task…

November 7, 2018 at 07:02PM
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These Animated AI Bots Learned To Dress Themselves, Awkwardly


These Animated AI Bots Learned To Dress Themselves, Awkwardly
The ability to put our clothes on each day is something most of us take for granted, but as computer scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology recently found out, it’s a surprisingly complicated task — even for artificial intelligence.

November 7, 2018 at 06:58PM
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