Sentences with phrase «last human beings»

And when she sees something horrible after an aborted escape attempt, she resigns herself to the idea that these two men will be the last human beings she ever sees.

The movie's final sequence hints at some massive cosmic rebirth; a sense that these people are the first or last human beings in the universe, like something by Kubrick.

Wouldn't it be something if we were to discover that every last human being on planet earth is completely and utterly insane.

The last human being has been born; there are no more babies.

Written by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Bruce Dern.

After an attack destroys the home base of Big Boss» mercenary empire, the survivors of the attack are swallowed by a massive wormhole that drops them into a dusty wasteland swarming with nanotechnological zombies hell bent on killing every last human being on the planet.

Match would end when the last human is killed or the human reaches a kill or time limit.

You are the last human being in the universe.

It is within this plant - filled, hermetic environment that a futuristic narrative unfolds, one following the last living scientist, and perhaps the last human being on the planet.

Not exact matches

Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign of what's to come in the field of AI.

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 matter).

MRI studies have shown that the human brain responds favorably to a person who's smiling, and this leaves a lasting positive impression.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) warned last January that robots, automation, and AI will replace 5 million human jobs by 2020.

Last October, author Nick Bostrom said that DeepMind is winning the race to develop human - level AI.

Many people worry that their followers might not want to hear personal details, but the lines between work and play have blurred over the last 10 years, thanks to digital media, and you'll be completing the circle of personal branding by giving your posts a human touch.

Last we heard, humans were still doing a lot of the work behind the scenes, but Facebook will probably give us some sort of update on that, too.

Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Poland.

The top three categories getting most of donations last year were religion ($ 122.94 billion), education ($ 59.77 billion) and human services ($ 46.8 billion).

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

«Is it absolutely necessary to drive every last penny out of it at the cost of human livelihoods?»

While businesses are starting to hire again — a recent poll found three - quarters of Canadian human - resource professionals plan to add staff within the next six months — companies can't afford to spend months training an employee only to find the relationship won't last.

In a survey of more than 800 full - time U.S. employees conducted by Globoforce in November of last year, 47 percent of respondents said they didn't think their company leaders cared about or were actively trying to create a «human» workplace.

Last month, in response to a survey that revealed experts believe A.I. will surpass human skills on all tasks by 2060, Musk tweeted that he believed it would be more like 2030 to 2040.

It is a similar fear for Elon Musk, who warned last week that the push toward artificial intelligence is among the biggest threats to the human race.

NEW YORK, April 17 - Billionaire investor William Ackman, who lost a proxy contest at Automatic Data Processing last year, said on Tuesday that he wants the human - resources technology company to succeed but said he might be back with a fight if ADP fails to perform.

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

People like Miracle (and Sheila Frederick, who rescued a victim of human trafficking last year) are key players in identifying instances of human trafficking and stopping them before it's too late.

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?»

My former client (disclosure: I stopped working with them as of December last year) Wayfare also received genuine interest from the press through the idea that we, as human beings, occasionally want to meet people from all over the world.

Last year, 73 percent of some 600 U.S. employees surveyed were satisfied with their co-worker relationships (6 percent less than in 2012), according to the Society for Human Resource Management's «Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement» report.

Last year, SNC - Lavalin defended the prison project, telling The Globe and Mail that the prison would be «the country's first to be built according to international human rights standards.»

«One of the most interesting things we've noticed over the last decade is the ability of math and machines to replace human judgment, particularly expert judgment,» Rabois said on Founder Calls, a new podcast run by Box CEO Aaron Levie.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

But when was the last time you (or any other human being) successfully made thousands of calls and had productive, lead - nurturing conversations in a day?

A customer service letter addressed «Dear Mr. Human» follows another dispatch last July in which various automated fields had been left completely blank.

Now that machines are increasingly replacing humans in doing cognitive tasks — work that was highly prized in the last century — the obvious question to ask is what will humans do?

In the long run this trend will actually push toward the re-localization and re-humanization of the economy, with the 19th - and 20th - century economies of scale exploited where they make sense (cheap, identical, disposable goods), and human - oriented techniques (both older and newer) increasingly accounting for goods and services that are valuable, customized, or long - lasting.»

The «termination without cause» took less than a minute, as Beutner was then escorted back to his office by T - Pub SVP for Human Resources Cindy Ballard — the same drill employed as protocol as so many newspaper jobs have been cut over the last decade.

The last widespread survey (i.e., not the barrage of fickle online polls that appear every Valentine's Day) was by the Society for Human Resource Management in 2005, in which 40 % of people claimed they had dated colleagues at some point during their career.

Just last month, two Chinese restaurants «fired» their robot waiters after the machines proved to be poor replacements for human workers.

Uber faced further tumult last month when Susan Fowler, a former employee, wrote a public blog post detailing what she described as her experience being subjected to sexual harassment while having the company's human resources department ignore her complaints.

Liesl Yearsley sold her last Aussie AI start - up to IBM, now she returns with local and Silicon Valley backing as she develops human AI, to provide us with the ultimate assistant.

In announcing an overhaul of its actively managed equities business last week, BlackRock said it was «harnessing the power of «human and machine,»» relying more on computers and data - mining to pick stocks.

PREPA reports power out in Puerto Rico due to «failure of the Cambalache Manatee 230KV line» * This is the same line where there was failure last week - Yesterday, PREPA boss Ricardo Ramos said last weeks outage was caused by a «crane», signaling human error caused it

Never mind that Uber's accident last weekend in Tempe, Ariz., was the result of a human failing to yield and smacking into the autonomous Volvo.

RBC's Canadian and North American business strategy is founded on building strong and lasting relationships with our clients - «earning the right to be our clients» first choice» - and human capital is our greatest asset in making this happen.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

According to the International Shark Attack File, a database maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History that tracks shark - human incidents, there were only 72 «unprovoked» shark attacks last year globally.

A Nike executive whom Paige Azavedo and other women reported to human resources for berating them in front of their peers was promoted last year.