Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
OpenAI Shows New AI Model to U.S. National Security Officials Before Release
August 27th, 2024The main takeaway from this is that OpenAI probably thinks there are national security implications related to their upcoming “Strawberry” AI model. More extensive commentary on this: My favorite quote, “You might be pretty certain that the answer to two plus two isn’t cat.” Via: Maginative: OpenAI has quietly showcased its latest AI breakthrough, codenamed […]
Drone Incursions Over Palmdale Skunkworks Factory
August 20th, 2024Via: The War Zone: The U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 in California, America’s premier hub for advanced aerospace development work, especially highly classified military programs, has seen a wave of mysterious drone incursions in recent months. The incidents have now become serious enough to prompt the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to impose new, if temporary […]
Neil Oliver Interviews Whitney Webb: “People Are Clamoring for Competing Squads of Billionaires to Save the Country”
August 14th, 2024Update: YouTube Removed This Interview, Backup Below Via: Rumble: — The full interview is very good, but if you aren’t able to listen to the whole thing, start at 9:55 and go as long as you can. Via: Neil Oliver: More: Unlimited Hangout
Create an AI Clone of Yourself
August 12th, 2024Via: Fox Business:
And Now… “Robot Dog With Gun Turret For Hunting Aerial Drones Being Tested By Army”
August 8th, 2024Via: The War Zone: A rifle-toting “robot dog” has become one of the latest additions to the ever-expanding array of concepts the U.S. military is exploring to help protect friendly forces from drones. Observations from the war in Ukraine and ongoing crises in the Middle East have provided renewed impetus for the acquisition of new […]
Could AI Robots with Lasers Make Herbicides – and Farm Workers – Obsolete?
August 4th, 2024Via: Los Angeles Times: The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer morning as nearly 200 farmers, academics and engineers gathered to witness the future of automated agriculture. Thirteen hulking machines with names like “Weed Spider” and “Mantis” crawled through rows of romaine. One used artificial intelligence cameras to […]
Ukraine War: First Successful One Way Drone Attack On In-Flight Helicopter
August 2nd, 2024Via: The Warzone: This morning, a Russian Mi-8AMTSh Hip helicopter crashed near Donetsk City. Russian sources report it was downed by a Ukrainian one-way attack drone. “Yesterday we wrote about the enemy’s attempts to operate drones against our army aviation,” wrote the Voivode Broadcasts Telegram channel, which first reported the incident. “Unfortunately… today they succeeded.” […]
Fully-Automatic Robot Dentist Performs World’s First Human Procedure
August 2nd, 2024Via: New Atlas: Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it. The system, built by Boston company Perceptive, uses a hand-held 3D […]
Argentina Will Use AI to ‘Predict Future Crimes’
August 1st, 2024Via: Guardian: Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights. The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data […]
New Air Force Drone Can Fly for Over Three Days Without Refueling
July 24th, 2024Via: Defense One: The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days. And it’s already flying missions in the Middle East. … The glider-like ULTRA drone can stay in the air for 80 hours without refueling […]
