Sentences with phrase «are human beings near»

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I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

We are moving towards a setting where Amy is near instant, but even in her current incarnation she tends to beat most human assistants in response time and working days (given her 24/7 machine setting).

Back then, investment in the oilsands was nearing its peak, and oil producers had a huge human resources headache.

The reports suggest that there is a large risk of a human version of bird flu erupting in the near future, and show how this could be done in a laboratory.

Human resource management functions are ideally positioned near the theoretic center of the organization, with access to all areas of the business.

«If you're near (a bank branch) feel free to go in and initiate a conversation with a real live human being.»

We are nowhere near the apocalyptic scenario in which smart evil robots turn on humans, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet.

While these technologies can carry out specific tasks extremely well, they're nowhere near the level of human intelligence, says Ruslan Salakhutdinov, assistant professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto.

The recent funding will be used toward building out Kallyope's gut - brain axis platform and getting one of Kallyope's programs near or into human clinical trials.

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

A human body containing 10,000 or more patents, like the humble cellphone, is a near - term possibility.

Meanwhile, other researchers are using the device to enhance vision for those with poor eyesight and even the near - blind, to understand how humans handle heavy workloads and multitasking — and, perhaps, most intriguingly, to better engage autistic individuals with the world around them.

It's not hard to imagine a machine that could beat a human in shotput, Littman says; consider the nearest cannon.

«I have a tough time in any near - term or any medium - term sort of scenario seeing that robots are just going to do their own thing and decide to shoot each other without any interaction [or] human control.»

The answer, at least for the near future, is likely to be the same as it in nearly all of the current debates over robots versus humans — a hybrid situation where the machines make the humans better.

That's according to a blog post on Wednesday announcing Deep Text, an artificial intelligence system that Facebook says can understand text with near - human levels of accuracy.

But space entrepreneurs are now attempting to capitalize on NASA's rekindled interest in lunar travel, coughing up a handful of proposals all leading to the commence of human colonies in our nearest neighbor in space.

Even for those who believe that the human species is to become extinct at some point in the (near?

Talking with voice assistants is not like talking to humans and, as helpful as it is to be near the technology, we know the difference.

A market for lunar services is already emerging and while some companies are focused on developing longer - term plans to return humans to the lunar surface, there are also many companies with nearer - term needs for lunar services.

Look, no human being has anywhere near the capacity to make the great decisions, as great collective decision - making.

With interest rates still hovering near the lowest levels they've ever been in 5,000 + years of recorded human history, it's very difficult to achieve a significant investment return without taking on substantial risk.

The streets near New York's City Hall were ear - stinging and windy on the morning of a big Airbnb hearing, but attendees clogged the doorway, and the air inside was thick with sour human concern.

It was 1994 and apparently no humans had been anywhere near the Chauvet cave for thousands of years.

If humans are the result of so - called «intelligent design» then why do we have too little room on our jawbones to accommodate wisdom teeth (unless this alleged «god» intended our teeth to rot out since we're not supposed to have learned science, and therefore that the presence of bacteria plus acids are a bad environment for tooth enamel), and that so many of us are near - sighted, and that women can have FACIAL HAIR (is that a cruel joke?)

Exposing you for the lying ass you are is fun though... just shows people that people like you are in need of serious mental health help and shouldn't be allowed near any human unless they are injecting you with anti-psychotic meds.

Bridgestone Tires: The Beaver in «Sigh of Relief» What could possibly be more entertaining than future road kill bonding with a human over their respective near - death experiences.

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

I have seen people that were «demon - possessed», have heard a lot of stories about ex-freemasons that interacts with lucifer, people that had near death experiences, people that have seen angels, people who can turn human beings into real zombies, (i can not prove / disprove these stories).

It denies the beauty of being human, and it ignores all these gaps that need to be filled in by the individual,» he ruminates near the end of Blankets.

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Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

If however, promiscuity is ok, then we are no where near what the church is about in serving the human family, and you are trying to mix oil and water.

They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.

That's perhaps why I am so captivated by the incarnation, the metaphor of God drawing near to us through a small baby's humanity, God with us and among us as the truly human.

Human beings naturally cling to life, and the witnessing of the death of others, especially those near and dear, and the anticipation of one's own passing away compel reflection upon the meaning of these events.

your brain is relatvely soo simple and therefore its comprehension is also very limited, you believe in evolution so religion itself is an evolutionary process.Even atheism also evolved, The arguments today is just part of the evolutionary process of change through dialectecal methods.The moment humans begin to understand and appreciate the dialectics then the solution to the problems argued is near.

The Kingdom of God is not an ideal which realizes itself in human history; we can not speak of its founding, its building, its completion; we can say only that it draws near, it comes, it appears.

It does not necessarily mean observing the rules or codes recognized in any human society, except insofar as these represent the attempt of that society to make actions express the nearest thing to full realization of affected interests which is possible to the average human being.

The location is believably Near Eastern (though most of the movie was shot in Spain), and Jesus is disarmingly human, though just enigmatic enough to assuage the fears of those who, like Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria, fear Nestorianism or Monophysitism.

The fact that arbitrary constants exist, for example the strength of gravity; through science we know that these values can only be near the observable constant or human life would not exist.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

In the animals we domesticated through genetic transformation, «Wild, human - threatening, and human - fearfulness instincts are eliminated and replaced by tameness, an acceptance or desire to be near humans, and often, other specific human - serving personalities.»

The healing factor that saved the early Christians was the realization that drawing nearer to Christ reduced the importance of human differences and brought the worshipers closer to one another.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

I suppose we don't notice it, but we make so many compromises with human snobbery, human sin, human error, and human greed, the nearer we are to the top in ruling other men.

If humans are dumb enough to built along the shore, near volcanoes, along side river, on high cliffs, and then a disaster happen it's pretty dumb to run around and scream «God's wrath» — a little common sense would be more useful!

As my eyes were opened, my resolve increased to not let negative humans NEAR my faith.

This position is predicated on the view that in the hierarchy of human values and needs, aesthetics is near the top and therefore beyond the experience of all but the cultured and leisure classes.