Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
FAA Authorizes Zipline to Make Drone Deliveries Beyond Operator’s Line of Sight
September 20th, 2023Via: Zipline: Today the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorized Zipline to make commercial deliveries beyond visual line of sight without visual observers – a milestone the entire industry has worked to achieve for years. For more than a decade, even the most advanced long-range drone deliveries in the U.S. required visual observers, stationed on […]
Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees
September 10th, 2023Cryptogon, 2007: They have an unthinkable surveillance capability that includes all of your email, web, purchasing and telephone activity. And, if I’m right, they’re keeping track of where you are and where you’ve been. *snort* Via: Vice: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an invasive, AI-powered monitoring tool to screen travelers, including U.S. citizens, […]
The Race Is On To Deploy Killer Robots For Future U.S.-China War
September 8th, 2023Via: Reuters: “There is a lot of warfare that is dull, dirty and dangerous. It is a lot better to do that with a machine.”
“Tesla FSD Beta Tried to Kill Me Last Night”
September 2nd, 2023Via: Electrek: I was testing Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta update last night (v11.4.7), and a new aggressive bug has nearly made me crash at highway speed twice. Please take this as a public service announcement. I received the new FSD Beta v11.4.7 update on my Model 3 this week. … I was on […]
ThirdAI Training of Billion-Parameter Neural Networks on Commodity CPUs
August 30th, 2023Via: AnyScale: Today, all widely-used deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, require access to a plethora of specialized hardware accelerators, such as GPUs or TPUs, to train large neural networks in a feasible amount of time. However, these specialized accelerators are extremely costly (roughly 3-10x more expensive than commodity CPUs in the cloud). […]
AI Humanoid Pilot to Fly Existing Aircraft [???]
August 26th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: South Korean researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) developed “Pibot,” a life-sized humanoid robot that can fly planes and understand complex flight controls. Flight news website Airways Magazine explains more about Pibot’s capabilities: As the world continues to adapt to the growing trend of Artificial Intelligence (AI), South […]
Walmart Drones To Serve 60,000 Dallas Homes
August 24th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Walmart announced its drone delivery service at two Dallas, Texas, stores is about to take flight in the coming months and serve upwards of 60,000 homes. The mega-retailer, with thousands of stores nationwide, hopes to expand its drone delivery network, currently operating in 36 stores in seven states, as a move to reduce […]
San Francisco’s North Beach Streets Briefly Clogged with Malfunctioning Robotaxis
August 14th, 2023I love it. Via: Los Angeles Times: One day after California green-lighted a massive expansion of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, the implications became clear. At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All […]
Zoom Can Use Customer-Generated Content to Train AI Models
August 7th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Zoom has added a clause to its Terms-of-Service (TOS) which allows the video conferencing company to use customer-generated content for any purpose they see fit, including to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, with no opt-out.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Launches ‘WorldCoin’ Token To Distinguish Humans From Bots
July 24th, 2023I like Melissa’s response to this: Waiting for the coin with the nipple scan, personally. — Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) July 24, 2023 Via: ZeroHedge: Last week we presciently discussed the somewhat dystopian outlook for an iris-scanning ‘World ID’ project to identify every human online: “Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will […]
