A YOUNG BOY BURNT TO DEATH IN LAGOS FOR STEALING GARRI

 Justice has become very common in most major cities of Nigeria especially Lagos State. Although people have been forced to take matters into their own hands because the system cannot be trusted to provide justice, mobs have on many occasions meted out to offenders punishments which far outweigh their offences.This is proven by a report on Information Nigeria, which alleges that a 7-year old boy was lynched in the Badagry area of Lagos for attempting to steal garri from a trader’s shop.
 As bizarre as this story may seem considering the fact that the offender is a minor, it may not be totally untrue. In any case, Nigerians have taken to social media to rain invective on the people who mobbed the boy as well as those who stood by and watched without making an attempt to save the child.

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Five things AI does better than humans, from the mundane to the magnificent

 For millennia, we surpassed the other intelligent species with which we share our planet—dolphins, porpoises, orangutans, and the like—in almost all skills, bar swimming and tree-climbing.
 In recent years, though, our species has created new forms of intelligence, able to outperform us in other ways. One of the most famous of these artificial intelligences (AIs) is AlphaGo, developed by Deepmind. In just a few years, it has learned to play the 4,000-year-old strategy game, Go, beating two of the world’s strongest players.
Other software developed by Deepmind has learned to play classic eight-bit video games, notably Breakout, in which players must use a bat to hit a ball at a wall, knocking bricks out of it. CEO Demis Hassabis is fond of saying that the software figured out how to beat the game purely from the pixels on the screen, often glossing over the fact that the company first taught it how to count and how to read the on-screen score, and gave it the explicit goal of maximizing that score. Even the smartest AIs need a few hints about our social mores.
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