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Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?
A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.
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What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.
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Which Were the Most Influential Early Computers?
Considering early machines that had the greatest influence on the development of program-controlled computers.
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How Does One Multiply with Napier's Rods?
Napier's multiplication and division rods, deriving from the basic multiplication table, simplify calculations considerably.
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How Does One Calculate With A Circular Slide Rule?
The circular slide rule was widely used until the 1970s.
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Charles Babbage and the Loom
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
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How Do You Calculate on the Abacus?
Considering the use of one of the most long-lived calculating devices.
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Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).
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Leonardo da Vinci's Robot Lion
We are celebrating the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death with a major exhibition of the Renaissance painter's works.
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Who Manufactured the Mysterious Chinese Android?
In the 18th century, there were several famous makers of automatons in Europe; who created the Chinese musical clock automaton figure?
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Google Translate Does Not UÂnderstand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
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The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?
Was the 1951 Paris conference "Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine" the birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?
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