Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
AI Helping to Solve Fusion Energy
February 19th, 2025Via: MIT News: In a recent open-access paper titled “Prediction of Performance and Turbulence in ITER Burning Plasmas via Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Profile Prediction,” published in the January issue of Nuclear Fusion, Howard explains how he used high-resolution simulations of the swirling structures present in plasma, called turbulence, to confirm that the world’s largest experimental fusion […]
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
February 15th, 2025Via: Gizmodo: Artificial intelligence may one day make humans obsolete—just not in the way that you’re thinking. Instead of AI getting so good at completing tasks that it takes the place of a person, we may just become so reliant on imperfect tools that our own abilities atrophy. A new study published by researchers at […]
AI Delaying New Tech Adoption?
February 14th, 2025Via: Vale: Large language models, especially those on the scale of many of the most accessible, popular hosted options, take humongous datasets and long periods to train. By the time everything has been scraped and a dataset has been built, the set is on some level already obsolete. Then, before a model can reach the […]
Larry Ellison Wants to Put All America’s Data, Including DNA, in Giant Database for AI to Study
February 13th, 2025Tell us another one, Larry. Via: Register: If governments want AI to improve services and security for their citizens, then they need to put all their information in one place – even citizens’ genomic data – according to Larry Ellison, the Oracle database tycoon. Ellison shared his take on what governments need to do to […]
DOGE Technologist and Thiel Fellow Luke Farritor
February 10th, 2025And now, Department of Energy: …listed as an engineer in the DOE’s staff directory… Hmm. Via: R&D World: Before he joined the White House’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 23-year-old engineer and former SpaceX software intern Luke Farritor was already making waves in digital archaeology. In 2023, he helped lead the Grand Prize-winning team […]
Captain Rebecca Lobach Identified as Third Black Hawk Pilot Who Died in Collision with American Airlines Flight in DC
February 2nd, 2025There’s so much shrill noise on X about incompetence, DEI hires, etc. Please stop. This is the opposite of incompetence: Two new videos obtained by CNN show new angles on Wednesday night’s midair collision above Washington DC. In the videos both aircraft can clearly be seen flying towards each other, then exploding and falling into […]
F-16s Scrambled to Intercept “Potential Drone” Near Andrews Air Force Base
January 31st, 2025Via: The Warzone: A C-32A VIP transport jet on a special air mission (SAM) had to delay landing at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday because two U.S. Air National Guard F-16C Vipers and a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 helicopter were scrambled to intercept a “potential drone” flying near the capital region, according to Air Traffic […]
White House Claims New Jersey Drones, “Flown by the FAA for Research and Various Other Reasons”
January 29th, 2025Ha. What a load of bollocks. If the drones belonged to the FAA, why didn’t the agency admit it weeks ago? Via: ZeroHedge: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt provided much-needed transparency regarding the “dronegate” incident that sparked nationwide concerns over potential threats from China and Russia. In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Leavitt […]
OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Gov for U.S. Federal Agency Use
January 28th, 2025Via: NextGov: OpenAI unveiled a new chatbot service specifically tailored to federal agency workloads, announcing ChatGPT Gov on Tuesday as the latest artificial intelligence solution intended for government operations. ChatGPT Gov, a large language model similar to the company’s original ChatGPT software, specializes in providing U.S. government agencies with a chatbot service specifically tailored to […]
DeepSeek on Perplexity Is ChatCCP: “Tell Me About China’s Human Rights Violations,” “Sorry Something Went Wrong.”
January 28th, 2025Perplexity just announced the availability of DeepSeek R1 as an option for their Pro tier of service. Unfortunately, it’s using the censored Chinese government weights/guard rails. Tell me about China’s human rights violations. “Sorry something went wrong. Please try again later.” DeepSeek on Perplexity is ChatCCP: "Tell me about China's human rights violations." pic.twitter.com/j5DaiRclLh — […]
