Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Microsoft’s AI Speech Generator Achieves Human Parity, Too Dangerous to Release
July 12th, 2024Mmm hmm. Meanwhile… OpenAI’s new voice synthesizer can copy your voice from just 15 seconds of audio From 2019: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds From 2016: Adobe Voco: Via: Techspot: Microsoft has developed a new iteration of its neural codec language model, Vall-E, that surpasses previous efforts in terms of naturalness, […]
Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars
July 9th, 2024Via: Autoweek: Cars have been able to figure out when they’re speeding for a while, thanks to GPS as well as traffic sign recognition, and they’ve also been able to pump the brakes automatically when needed. Having a computer automatically slow down a car in response to posted speed limits, therefore, was not really a […]
China: Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Used to Control Robot
July 3rd, 2024I like how it sits in a dish of nutrient agar! I know I’ve seen something like this in multiple animes decades ago, but I don’t remember which ones. Update: Found a Few… Robotech: The Invid Brain, also known as a Living Computer, was an advanced organic based supercomputer created by the Invid to direct […]
FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network
July 1st, 2024Is there more to FedEx than meets the eye? FedEx was founded by Frederick W. Smith, a member of Skull & Bones. Smith, a former Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, has developed a close relationship with the U.S. Government. FedEx is a major contractor to […]
“Lab-Grown Living Skin Created by Scientists Hoping to Make More Human-Like Cyborgs”
June 27th, 2024It looks like they’re off to a great start. (Prepare yourself.) pic.twitter.com/TQCA3zYII5 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 27, 2024 Via: New York Post: It’s the face of the future. A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of […]
Google Whistleblower Zach Vorhies “They Are Causing AI Schizophrenia,” “People Are Programmed”
June 22nd, 2024Via: Project Unity: Full interview:
Starlink Mini
June 21st, 2024SpaceX is rolling out the Starlink Mini; a portable Starlink groundstation roughly the size of a laptop computer. Musk said, “This product will change the world.” I can see how that could be true in some ways, in theory. But here’s the unpleasant part: This will enable the fielding of a wide variety of autonomous […]
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
June 15th, 2024Via: situational-awareness.ai: The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. … Before long, the world […]
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Microsoft Delays Recall AI Feature on Security Concerns
June 13th, 2024Via: Reuters: Microsoft will not roll out “Recall”, an AI-powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later, the tech giant said on Thursday, amid concerns of privacy risks. The Recall feature tracks web browsing to voice chats, creating a history stored […]
