Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model
May 13th, 2024A few initial thoughts… 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 each of these […]
Cubic Millimetre of Brain Mapped in Spectacular Detail
May 13th, 2024Via: Nature: Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that […]
Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief
May 13th, 2024Via: The National Interest: The future loyal wingmen of the United States Air Force are inching closer to becoming a reality, and more importantly, the artificial intelligence (AI) controlled aircraft could be on track to be as good as any human pilot. That was the assessment from Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who recently took […]
Apple Reportedly Near Deal To Infuse ChatGPT Into iPhones
May 13th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Apple is nearing a deal with Microsoft-backed OpenAI to infuse its large language model, known as ChatGPT, into the future iPhone operating system, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the discussions. The two sides have been finalizing terms for a pact to use ChatGPT features in Apple’s iOS 18, the next iPhone […]
War Is A Racket: Anduril Pulsar
May 8th, 2024Here’s a tiny curiosity to add to your long herniating War Is A Racket file folder. The U.S. Government paid Anduril about a billion dollars for a system that seeks to counter a sub-$500 threat: The company in 2022 mentioned the EW equipment after winning a nearly $1 billion counter-unmanned aerial systems contract from U.S. […]
Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators
May 8th, 2024Via: The Warzone: The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) looks to be the first organization within the U.S. military to be using rifle-wielding “robot dogs.” Other armed robotic K-9s have been explored by the U.S. military and shown off by foreign countries, in the recent past. Eric Shell, head of business development […]
JavaScript Pilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator
May 5th, 2024Via: Pomax: …we’re writing a web page that can control an autopilot running in JS that, in turn, controls a little virtual aeroplane. And by “little” I actually mean “most aeroplanes in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020” because as it turns out, MSFS comes with an API that can be used to both query *and set* […]
BlackRock CEO: Rise Of The Machines Will Go Easier In Countries With Declining Populations
May 2nd, 2024NEW – BlackRock CEO: "The social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations."pic.twitter.com/6umP1JnLQ0 — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 2, 2024 Via: The Sociable: Blackrock CEO Larry Fink tells the World Economic Forum (WEF) that developed countries with shrinking populations will […]
Astribot S1
April 28th, 2024Impressive, if real. Via: Astribot:
And Now… AI Assisted Police Reports
April 24th, 2024Via: Forbes: American cops are increasingly leaning on artificial intelligence to assist with policing, from AI models that analyze criminal patterns to drones that can fly themselves. Now, a GPT-4 powered AI can do one of their less appealing jobs: filing paperwork. On Tuesday, Axon, the $22 billion police contractor best known for manufacturing the […]
