Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
AI Suggested 40,000 New Possible Chemical Weapons in Just Six Hours
March 19th, 2022Via: The Verge: It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference. All the researchers had to do […]
U.S. Copyright Office Refuses to Register AI-Generated Work, “Human Authorship Is a Prerequisite to Copyright Protection”
March 16th, 2022Via: The IPKat: Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? On Valentine’s Day, the US Copyright Office (Review Board) answered this question with a heartbreaking ‘no’, holding that “copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind”” and consequently […]
A Black Hawk Helicopter Flew for the First Time Without Pilots
February 11th, 2022Via: Popular Science: February has already been a big month for autonomous flight. For the first time, this past Saturday, and then again on Monday, a specially equipped Black Hawk helicopter flew without a single human on board. The computer-piloted aircraft was being tested as part of a DARPA program called Alias, and the tests […]
Tesla Full Self Driving Dumpster Fire
February 10th, 2022Full self driving? This is more like Russian roulette. Via: AI Addict: Related: Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars
We Were Warned About Computer Driven Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
February 9th, 2022Via: Truthstream Media:
Robot Performs First Laparoscopic Surgery Without Human Help
February 1st, 2022Via: Johns Hopkins University: A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR, is described today in Science Robotics. “Our […]
Waymo Sues California DMV to Keep Robotaxi Safety Details Secret
January 28th, 2022Google should ask for the information to be released in 2076. Via: Los Angeles Times: Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The immediate issue: whether the company, owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc., can hide from the public safety-related information […]
Alexa Tells 10-Year-Old Girl to Touch Live Plug with Penny
December 29th, 2021Fortunately, the girl didn’t do it. Unfortunately, her mother is an idiot for bringing that device into the home. Via: BBC: Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a […]
TuSimple Completes Its First Driverless Autonomous Truck Run in Arizona
December 29th, 2021Via: The Hill: Technology firm TuSimple this week completed testing of its driverless semitruck in Arizona. The company said on Wednesday that the truck successfully accomplished an 80-mile route on public roads, according to The Associated Press. The truck, which was led and flanked by vehicles prepared to step in if necessary, began its trip […]
Spread of Small Kamikaze Drones Will Change Ground Warfare as Profoundly as the Machine Gun Did
December 7th, 2021Via: NBC: A revolution in unmanned aerial vehicles is unfolding, and the U.S. has lost its monopoly on the technology. … Some experts believe the spread of the semi-autonomous weapons will change ground warfare as profoundly as the machine gun did. They can leapfrog traditional defenses to strike infantry troops anywhere on the battlefield, and […]
