The text anticipated several modern AI safety concerns, including the possibility of machine consciousness, self-replication, and humans losing control of their technological creations. These themes later appeared in works like Isaac Asimov’s The Evitable Conflict and the Matrix films. A model of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a calculating machine invented in 1837 but never built […]
Name: Leaf sheep, or leaf slug (Costasiella kuroshimae) Where it lives: Shallow waters across Asia and the Coral Triangle What it eats: Algae Why it‘s awesome: These tiny marine creatures are probably better known by their nickname, “Shaun the Sheep” sea slugs, because of their uncanny resemblance to the iconic TV character. The adorable critters […]
In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a clone of one of the world’s largest sheep species. Court documents allege that Arthur Schubarth trafficked body parts of a near threatened Marco Polo argali sheep into the US from Kyrgyzstan and in 2015 contracted with a lab […]
