Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
August 2nd, 2021“Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha” And now… Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) use Starlink. I went looking for how they are using Starlink and couldn’t find much, except this gibberish on an Air Force press release. I bolded the parts that might relate to Starlink: In addition to […]
How Many Robots Does It Take To Run a Grocery Store?
July 6th, 2021How does it handle fruits and vegetables? Via: Tom Scott: Research Credit: BVegas
Elon Musk Admits Self-Driving Is Harder Than He Thought As Tesla Owners Troll Him Over Missed Deadlines
July 5th, 2021Via: Electrek: Elon Musk is admitting that self-driving is a harder problem than he originally thought as some Tesla owners are trolling him over yet another missed deadline for Tesla’s self-driving program. Musk has a long history of failed predictions regarding Tesla bringing a true self-driving system to market. It was first supposed to happen […]
Killer Drones Operate in Autonomous Mode for First Time
May 30th, 2021Via: New York Post: After a United Nations commission to block killer robots was shut down in 2018, a new report from the international body now says the Terminator-like drones are now here. Last year “an autonomous weaponized drone hunted down a human target last year” and attacked them without being specifically ordered to, according […]
Insider Leaks Details of Facebook’s Pro-Vaccine PSYOP
May 25th, 2021Via: Project Veritas:
Food Delivery Robots Dodge Homeless in Los Angeles
May 23rd, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: A new video that surfaced on TikTok showed what appeared to be a Postmates Serve delivery robot cruising down the sidewalk of Los Angeles, dodging a homeless man laying on the pathway, and continued on its route to deliver food to a customer.
AI Mid 2021. Self Driving Car Meets Reality
May 17th, 2021Via: Piekniewski’s blog: Since it is 2021 after all, the most immediate AI flop is related to Tesla robotaxis or rather lack thereof. Elon Musk promised that Tesla would achieve L5 autonomy by the end of 2020 back in April 2019 when he needed to raise money [and reiterated in April 2020]. … It should […]
Space Force Scientist: U.S. Military Must Experiment with Human Augmentation and AI to Stay Ahead of Russia and China
April 30th, 2021Via: Daily Mail: Combining humans with machines to create superhuman intelligence may soon no longer be the plot of science-fiction films, as the US Space Force’s chief scientist say it will happen in ‘the coming decade.’ Dr. Joel Mozer, speaking at an event at the Airforce Research Laboratory Wednesday, announced we are entering the age […]
U.S. Army: “Teams of Air-and Ground-Based Autonomous Agents Operating Mission-to-Mission with No Soldier Intervention”
April 27th, 2021Search and rescue. *wink* Via: U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory: The future battlefield will rely on teams of air-and ground-based autonomous agents operating mission-to-mission with no Soldier intervention. Army researchers have developed a unique approach that allows a rotary wing unmanned air vehicle to land on a moving unmanned ground vehicle without the aid […]
Boston Dynamics Stretch
March 29th, 2021Via: Boston Dynamics: