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17 Opposition parties to field a candidate for Presidential poll

Kick-starting the consultations on putting up a joint candidate for the Presidential election, 17 Opposition parties attended a meeting hosted by West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee in New Delhi on Wednesday. At the end of the 90-minute meeting, the parties came up with a statement expressing their intent to field a common candidate, but no name was finalised.

ED summons Rahul again on June 17

As former Congress President Rahul Gandhi went in for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the National Heraldnewspaper for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, there were tense moments at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters as Delhi police personnel barged into its premises and dragged out workers, including a former Lok Sabha member. Mr. Gandhi has been summoned again on Friday for further questioning.

Ajit Doval attends meeting hosted by China

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval attended a virtualBRICSmeeting hosted by Chinese NSA Yang Jiechi on Wednesday, aimed at strengthening political and security cooperation within the five-nation grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. An official statement said multilateralism and global governance, new threats and challenges to national security, and governance in new domains were on the agenda for discussions.

Presidential polls | Rajnath speaks to Pawar, Mamata, Kharge

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda on Wednesday began theconsultation process, on behalf of the NDA, for the upcoming polls for electing thenew President of India, by dialling key Opposition leaders, NDA allies and neutral parties such as the Biju Janata Dal (BJD).

Three-year Bachelors degree programme for Agnipath recruits

A day after the Cabinet approved the Agnipath scheme for temporary recruitment to the armed forces, the Ministry of Education on Wednesday said it will launch a three-year bachelors degree programme that will give credits to serving defence personnel who avail the scheme.

Presidential polls | 11 nominations filed on day 1

Eleven people filed their nominations on Wednesday for the Presidential election to be held on July 18, according to Rajya Sabha sources.

Plea in Supreme Court seeks stringent population control law

A Mathura resident has asked the Supreme Court to direct the government to ascertain the feasibility of enacting a stringent population control law. Devkinandan Thakur Ji, the petitioner, said such a law would secure the fundamental rights of citizens, including the right to peaceful sleep along with clean air, water, food, health and shelter. Mr. Thakur said the injury caused by population explosion for women especially was extremely large.

Daughter of Himachal judge held in murder case

Kalyani Singh was under the scanner of the agency for long as it had emerged during the probe that a woman was accompanying Sidhus killer.

U.S. Federal Reserve attacks inflation with its largest rate hike since 1994

The move announced by the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise its benchmark short-term rate to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.

JharKhand govt. seeks explanation from Ranchi SSP over putting up posters of violence accused

A day afterJharkhand police put up posters carrying photographsof those allegedly involved in the recentviolent protests in Ranchi, the States Home Secretary Rajiv Arun Ekka on Wednesday evening sought an explanation from the SSP over the unlawful act.

BJP expels Rajasthan MLA for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday expelled its Rajasthan MLA Shobharani Kushwah for cross-voting in favour of a Congress candidate in the elections to four Rajya Sabha seats from the State held recently.

Myanmar not part of ASEAN meet

The Foreign Minister of Myanmar is unlikely to be part of the 24 thASEAN-India Ministerial here on Thursday, an official source indicated.Myanmars representation at the meeting has been in focus as India has been under pressure to avoid inclusion of Myanmar in the high-level meeting.

Prithvi-II missile successfully test-fired during night time

India on Wednesday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile during night time as part of a user training trial from a test range off the Odisha coast. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said: Prithvi-2 missile test-fired successfully and the test met all parameters.

Biden announces another $1 billion military aid to Ukraine

Joe Biden said on Wednesday the U.S. will send another $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest single tranche of weapons and equipment since the war began. The aid will include anti-ship missile launchers, howitzers and more rounds for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems - all key weapons systems that Ukrainian leaders have urgently requested.

K.L. Rahul to miss England test, Hardik Pandya in line for captaincy during Ireland T20Is

Senior opener K.L. Rahul is all set to miss the fifth Test against England in Birmingham next month as he is unlikely to recover from a groin injury that forced him out of the ongoing T20I series against South Africa.

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With modern chess engines operating at hundreds of points stronger than the best human players, its clear we mere mammals are officially a relic of the past. While computer scientists and technological hobbyists push the limits of existing Artificial Intelligence to uncover as much of the infinite unknown hidden in a single game of chess, a new forefront of AI is emerging in the chess world.

Its not a meticulous exploration of a 300-move theoretical rook-bishop endgame between Leela and AlphaZero no, its a nightmarish, meme-driven flight of fancy powered by DALL-E mini, a free AI-based image generating program.

In a world of proliferating doctored images and deepfakes, this kind of tool could bend chess culture and history, especially in an age where reality and illusion blur more seamlessly each day. But at what cost may we wield such power?

In the name of science, we at Chess Life Online have decided to put DALL-E mini to the test to see what awaits us in this new frontier. The premise is simple: type in a prompt and DALL-E will create the image for you. Sometimes it gives you exactly what you want. Other times, well just look below.

We'll be sure to keep exploring this technology as it continues to evolve and inevitably haunts our dreams. Is there a prompt you'd want to see or have already tried? Share it with us below or tweet it to us @USChess.

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It had to happen sometime.

All four games were drawn today at the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Madrid, Spain. Some games like the 30 move snoozefest from GMs Teimour Radjabov and Ian Nepomniachtchi were limp affairs from the get-go.

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courtesy FIDE / Stev Bonhage

Others, like the draw between GMs Fabiano Caruana and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, showed a bit of promise from the outset, but soon sputtered, never really getting going.

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courtesy FIDE / Stev Bonhage

But GM Ding Liren will look back on Sundays third round as an opportunity lost. After gaining an edge in a topical Grnfeld, Ding struggled when GM Richard Rapport muddied the waters, and after finding the correct move on the 22nd move, he missed the critical continuations on moves 23 and 27, and the game was draw after the time control.

The game of the day was undoubtedly the battle between GMs Alireza Firouzja and Hikaru Nakamura. Our guest annotator GM Jacob Aagaard provides a pithy, accurate description of the encounter.

Nakamura has played this variation many times and so far held all the games against his colleagues. It is the most solid corner of his repertoire. Firouzja comes with an interesting idea, but does not manage to rattle Nakamura, who finds all the right moves. But low on time in the endgame, Black gets into some problems, which he had to solve with great accuracy to draw the game. This was definitely the best effort of the day.

Will this near-miss haunt Firouzja? Will it energize Nakamura? He seemed fairly chipper in his post-game recap for his YouTube channel, saying he was pleased with his play and the result.

Monday is a rest day in Madrid, the first of four during the event. Caruana and Nepomniachtchi lead at this first interval at 2/3, but of course no one (save perhaps Radjabov) is out of contention so early in the contest.

Play resumes Tuesday at 9 a.m. Eastern. Pairings are:

Rapport NakamuraNepomniachtchi FirouzjaDuda RadjabovDing Caruana

FIDE Candidates homepageUS Chess Candidates homepageCandidates Overview (including streaming links)Lichess analysis study (Aagaard)Round 1Round 2

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Global Corporate Investment In AI

Source: Daniel Zhang, Nestor Maslej, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Etchemendy, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Helen Ngo, Juan Carlos Niebles, Michael Sellitto, Ellie Sakhaee, Yoav Shoham, Jack Clark, and Raymond Perrault, The AI Index 2022 Annual Report, AI Index Steering Committee, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, March 2022. Historical performance is not an indication of future results and any investments may go down in value.

What activities is the money funding?

Aggregate investment amounts are one thing, but its more concrete to consider specific areas of activity. Figure 2 below is helpful in that regard, providing a sense of change in 2021 relative to 2020.

Figure 2: Private investment in AI by focus area, 2020 vs. 2021

Private Investment In AI By Focus Area, 2020 Vs. 2021

Source: Daniel Zhang, Nestor Maslej, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Etchemendy, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Helen Ngo, Juan Carlos Niebles, Michael Sellitto, Ellie Sakhaee, Yoav Shoham, Jack Clark, and Raymond Perrault, The AI Index 2022 Annual Report, AI Index Steering Committee, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, March 2022. Historical performance is not an indication of future results and any investments may go down in value.

Is AI technically improving?

This is a fascinating question, the answer to which may have nearly infinite depth and would be covered in a limitless array of academic papers to come. What we can note here is the fact that it involves two distinct efforts:

I find semantic segmentation particularly interesting. It sounds like something only an academic would ever say, but it refers to the concept of seeing a person riding a bike in a picture. You want the AI to be able to know what pixels are the person and what pixels are the bike.

If you are thinkingwho cares if sophisticated AI can discern the person vs. the bike in such an image, I grant you that it may not be the highest value application. However, picture an image of an internal organ on a medical imagenow think about the value of segmenting healthy tissue vs. a tumour or a lesion. Can you see the value that could bring?

The Stanford AI Index report breaks down specific tests designed to measure how AI models are progressing in such areas as:

Many of these areas are approaching what could be defined as the human standard, but its also important to note that most of them are only specialising in the one specific task for which they were designed.

Conclusion: Its still early for AI

With certain megatrends, its important to have the humility to recognise that we dont know with certainty what will happen next. With AI, we can predict certain innovations, be it in vision, autonomous vehicles, or drones, we must also recognise that the biggest returns may come from activities we arent tracking yet.

Stay tuned for Part 2 where we discuss recent results on certain companies operating in the space.

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[1] Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html#:~:text=The%20Pfizer%2DBioNTech%20and%20Moderna,use%20in%20the%20United%20States.

[2] Source: Heikkila, Melissa. The hype around DeepMinds new AI models misses whats actually cool about it. MIT Technology Review. 23 May 2022.

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Last summer, Motherboard's Matthew Cassel visited a group of libertarians and crypto enthusiasts who are trying to create their own micronation called Liberland on disputed land sitting between Croatia and Serbia.

As Yugoslavia splintered in the early 1990s, various countries rose from the former territory but a tiny island on the Danube River fell into dispute between Serbia and Croatia. In 2015, Vit Jedlicka, a Czech citizen, planted a flag on the island and declared it a new country, Liberland, with Jedlicka at its helm as president. He and other libertarians have pinned their hopes on the micronation despite Liberland being unrecognized by any country and inaccessible to any of the people eager to become citizens because Croatian border police arrest anyone who tries to step foot on the island.

Cassel visited the Liberlanders during Floating Man, a multi-day festival celebrating the unrealized dream of making a libertarian nation run on Bitcoin and the blockchain. When asked who Liberlanders were and what they had in common, Jedlicka told VICE: "People that believe in freedom and want to start somethingthey're kind of fed up with existing systems, they understand that it's easier to actually start new things than to fix anything in the existing political system.

At Floating Man, individuals and citizens are free to talk about whatever they like. VICE heard presentations ranging from discussions of crypto-anarchism and darknet markets to how we dont really have diseases and opera performances.

Motherboard talked with Zuzana Uchnarova, a Bitcoin miner who dreams of becoming an ambassador of Liberland, who explained that "for you, [Liberland] is just a dream but for me it's real. I know we want to change the world and I know we want to change something."

Vit Jetlika, President of Liberland, ferries a boatload of festival attendees to visit the uninhabited island after his house boat broke down and nearly sank. Photo: Jake Kruty (IG: @jakedog___)

Uchnarova added that she thought Liberland could be a new Dubai, or home to a fantastical space program.

"We would like to build a new Dubai here, maybe more than Dubai," she said. "Maybe we will build something that will transfer us to orbit directly. My dream is to have a hotel in orbit and everything will be paid for by bitcoins."

Founded and backed by individuals who made early fortunes in cryptocurrency, Liberland and its denizens have a dream of integrating it into every facet of life. Jedlicka wants financial transactions to exist on the blockchain, but also the countrys Congress, Senate, justice system, and voting system.

In Liberland, taxes will give you merits that can be used for voting. The more taxes you pay, the more tokens you recieve. Jedlicka believes this is much fairer than trying to give everyone the same vote.

"If you paid $30 million in taxes, you still have one vote. That's one of the things that's a little broken about the systems that we are living in, Jedlicka said. It's very important to do it so that the majority of society cannot dictate the minority, especially the minority that actually pays the taxes and makes the country possible.

A Liberland flag and a beer sit in the grass on the Serbian banks of the Danube River. Photo: Jake Kruty (IG: @jakedog___)

In a discussion with Jillian Crandall, an architect and instructor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Edward Ongweso Jr, a staff writer at Motherboard, the CRYPTOLAND panel talked more about the community and its goals, and how it intersects with current themes around crypto-colonialism, or crypto-wealthy people trying to set up enclaves that benefit them in foreign territories.

"It stems from the foundation of a very explicit tax haven from the EU for people who are self-proclaimed techno-libertarians and right-libertarians, to form their own community, Crandall explained. "Where I get concerned is where these systems are being rolled out as a techno-fix for a more efficient governance systems that allow its citizens to participate in a voting structure that they're being told is a very democratic voting structure increasing efficiencies because its using computational technologies and using the blockchain (which is a very transparent, trustless system). People might say yeah, absolutely, I want to get behind that, I like how that sounds. But they might not understand that the more tokens you have, the more votes you have, the more pull you have.

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Inside Liberland, a Crypto-Libertarian Micronation In Eastern Europe