Sentences with phrase «as a human being at»

Had he, in some sense, been diminished as a human being at the end of his life?

«Collectively we as humans are at a point in which, technologically, there's at least one feasible path to getting to another star within our generation,» former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison said at a news briefing Tuesday at the One World Observatory in New York City.

Mr. Paldo, Thank you for seeing my potential as a human being at a time when everyone was putting so much pressure on me to succeed as an athlete.

Suspense increases as winter approaches, and Sam fears that his time as a human is at end... for the rest of his life.

Not exact matches

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

By using our own brain as a model, this technology is able to apply human intuition at machine speed.

What followed was an amazing episode for humanity; enemies who were just hours ago slaughtering each other at a level unseen in human history, were talking, singing, dancing, and eating together as if they were friends.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

As of last year, Google's Cloud Vision AI was as good as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matterAs of last year, Google's Cloud Vision AI was as good as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matteras good as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matteras or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter).

At Facebook, chatbots were able to negotiate as well as their human counterparts.

Instead, the command will need to «not appear as being part of the task at hand — which means the robot must think it's deciding to turn itself off instead of obeying the orders of a pesky human.

And it's looking at military solutions as well, using robots to do reconnaissance work that would exposure human serviceman to unnecessary risk.

That was true since automobiles transformed our lifestyles while simultaneously killing thousands a day, and it's true in our current reality of mind - bending technological progress with entrepreneurs aiming rockets at Mars and envisioning artificial intelligence that makes humans look about as smart a house cat in comparison.

When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

President Donald Trump (R) speaks about North Korea as he sits beside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price (L) during an opioid - related briefing at Trump's golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 8, 2017.

Research conducted by Matthew Lieberman at UCLA shows that being social and connecting with others is as fundamental a human need as food, shelter, and water.

It looks at five «input» categories: institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, market sophistication and business sophistication, and «outputs,» which are categorized as either knowledge and technology or creative outputs.

«The way I interpret it is that the manager's coming across as more human,» James Pennebaker, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told the WSJ's Matthew Kassel.

In a recent interview with Quartz, Gates expressed enthusiasm for a tax on robots — and that includes artificial intelligence — as a way of slowing down the pace at which machines are taking human jobs.

Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.

Zuckerberg responded that current AI technology is not as good as humans at screening «sensitive content when the stakes are pretty high.»

As the massive turnout for Prinstein's class at Yale demonstrates, human beings appear hardwired to chase popularity.

Human rights are about accommodation and equality and providing as level a playing field as you possibly can, and the way you do that is to look at the individual circumstances.»

'' ¨ By the law of physics, we, as human beings, can not be in two places at once.

Heidi Shey, a senior analyst at Forrester who studies the cyber insurance space, says insurers are in an excited «land - grab» state, gobbling up as many customers as they can because insurers believe most businesses will not file a claim, or there could be a cyber event that doesn't get covered due to an exemption, such as human error, credit card fraud, or email fraud.

He formerly served as product philosopher at Google, and he's the co-founder of the Center for Human Technology (and the Time Well Spent movement).

As you're looking for candidates to fill top positions at your company, set your sights on growth opportunities — both for your employees and your company's human capital.

Make it abundantly clear through words and actions that you are devoted to the community, and most likely you'll be amazed at the rash of new clients that will be willing to work with you because not only are they interested in your product, they like and respect you as a human being.

Autopilot is at least as safe as human drivers on the highway, in a car that doesn't use gasoline and performs like a sports car, the magazine said.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

Of course there are humans milling about, but not nearly as many as at Foxconn in China.

At its open, the futuristic hotel owned by Huis Ten Bosch will open with three «actroids,» or robots that resemble humans, that will service as receptionists and will be capable of conversing with humans.

This phenomenon is known as the «uncanny valley,» the point at which a leap forward in technology outpaces a human's ability to cope.

It was late spring, 1996, and Vince was leaving her job as a human resources training administrator at Sears in Chatham, Ont., after years of escalating sexual harassment.

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.

«Diffuse the drama by being a decent human being,» says Sharron Jones who, as marketing director at Oakville, Ont.

Once the system seemed to be working, Kopparapu arranged for tests at a Mumbai hospital to see how the app would perform in a real - life setting, and so far it's done just as well as a human specialist, although the data is limited.

Products like Halo, on one hand «can be seen as a form of harm reduction,» says Sharon Akabas, the associate director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University.

At best, today's artificial hearts are used to buy patients time as they wait for a human heart transplant.

«The «feel good» language about mutually beneficial cooperation is intended to benefit autocratic states at the expense of people whose human rights and fundamental freedoms we are all obligated as states to respect,» Mack said.

Here's research into how music can affect collaboration at work (short answer: it's great for it), family interactions at home, and even the workings of the human body, as well as findings that suggest you should tailor your playlist to the type of work you're hoping to accomplish while listening.

As Liz Ryan, founder and CEO of consulting firm The Human Workplace, writes in a post on LinkedIn, «How are you ever going to increase your earnings if every time you change jobs, you get a tiny raise over what they paid you at the last place?»

Nils Lonberg, a Harvard - trained molecular biologist who worked at Medarex, had figured out not only how to engineer a mouse with human immune genes but also how to make antibodies from these genes that were fully human as well.

As Bernard and the others are hiding in a barn, we see Trevor and his henchman shooting at a human guest with a glass balanced on her head.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Though they now deride the Monster.com competition as «a human auction,» at the time «they were really thrown off balance,» recalls Thomas Eisenmann, one of James's Harvard Business School professors.

«So as much as we all love our technology and we're always pushing out emails, I think we still need to be establishing connections at a human level and building trust that way.

Don't look at it as a weakness, understand that you are only human and with this comes many needs, including interaction with others.