Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Robot Dog with Flamethrower Attached
April 23rd, 2024Comedy Gold: “Clearing snow and ice from your driveway” Via: New York Post: A company have unveiled a robot dog companion — with flamethrower attached. Throwflame say the Thermonator is the first-ever flame-throwing quadruped robot dog. … The Ohio-based firm have announced the $9,420 bot is available for purchase by the general public and government […]
How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
April 23rd, 2024Via: Brown University: Over the past decade, the center of America’s military-industrial complex has been slowly shifting from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s $886 billion budget is spent on conventional weapon systems, and goes to well-established defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing, and […]
Boston Dynamics: Atlas 2.0
April 18th, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new version of its Atlas humanoid robot, showing its creepy movements that make it look like something out of a sci-fi horror movie. The Massachusetts-based robotics company shared a video of the latest humanoid, showing it pulling its leg behind its heads to stand up – in […]
Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies in Gaza
April 12th, 2024Via: The Libertarian Institute: The Israeli military has employed yet another AI-based system to select bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine has revealed. The new system has generated sweeping kill lists condemning tens of thousands of Palestinians, part of the IDF’s growing dependence on AI to plan lethal strikes. Citing […]
Udio: AI Creates Music from Text Prompts
April 10th, 2024Via: Udio: Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music in your favorite styles with intuitive and powerful text-prompting. 1/11 pic.twitter.com/al5uYAsU5k — udio (@udiomusic) April 10, 2024
OpenAI Can Re-Create Human Voices from 15 Second Samples
March 30th, 2024Fifteen seconds? *pfft* Google AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds Microsoft’s New AI Can Simulate Anyone’s Voice with 3 Seconds of Audio Via: Ars Technica: Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an […]
Army Mulls Introducing Robot Platoon Into Armored Brigades
March 27th, 2024Via: Defense One: The Army may introduce a drone and robotics platoon into its armored brigade combat teams, an Army leader announced Tuesday at the AUSA Global Force conference. … Ukraine and Russia have used drones since the start of the war. And both sides in the last year have also begun to use ground […]
The Race For AI Robots
March 25th, 2024Via: Cold Fusion:
Intel Gets $20 Billion in U.S. Grants, Loans for Chip Plants
March 20th, 2024Via: Bloomberg: The US will award Intel Corp. $8.5 billion in grants and as much as $11 billion in loans to help fund an expansion of its semiconductor factories, marking the largest award from a program designed to reinvigorate the domestic chip industry. The package will support more than $100 billion in US investments from […]
CARCOSA: Secret Pentagon Program Echoes Pedophile Ring in “True Detective” Series
March 19th, 2024Via: The Intercept: The Pentagon is pursuing a high-tech program that will “minimize cognitive burden” on soldiers, according to budget documents released last week. The $40 million-plus classified program, codenamed “CARCOSA,” shares the same name as “the temple” in the first season of the HBO TV series “True Detective,” a place where an elite pedophile […]
