I sometimes joke about the Skynet of the Terminator movies. And occasionally I get serious about it. But this is the first time I ever had a strong Skynet inspired chill engulf me when read about a new technology: The … Continue reading
Via Chris Loesch: Don’t worry. It’s only CGI. The real thing is still classified as Top Secret and won’t be released for field work until Beto is elected President.
There is even a bot that wants to take your guns: This application scrapes a website for recent gun crime in America. It’ll then post it to the provided twitter account. Please put an end to guns and an end … Continue reading
I’ve been listening to the book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. If you never have had any concerns about Skynet becoming reality this book will shake you up. If you thought Skynet was science fiction but plausible … Continue reading
We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language … Continue reading
Skynet smiles: For the first time, scientists have created a permanently magnetic liquid. These liquid droplets can morph into various shapes and be externally manipulated to move around, according to a new study. … In an even more bizarre application, … Continue reading
One might say The Singularity Is Near: AI Pores Over Old Scientific Papers, Makes Discoveries Overlooked By Humans Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory trained an AI called Word2Vec on scientific papers to see if there was any “latent knowledge” … Continue reading
Listen to the sound of their gears and them walking. Remember that sound. You’ll hear it again soon enough as you hide in a closet, holding your child close, fighting the urge to scream. Watching the sliver of light under … Continue reading
I hate it when governments take some dystopian concept and use it as a blueprint rather than a warning: It is a CCTV clip showing current surveillance in China. Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition technology, GPS tracking and … Continue reading
I’m not sure whether to say “faster, please” or worry about what Skynet might do with an army of mind-controlled cockroaches. Stephen GreenSeptember 21, 201621ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Mind-Controlled Nanobots Used to Release Chemicals in Living Cockroaches.[I would worry more about … Continue reading
Having the ability replicate the human nervous system and some of their thought processes is a good thing to have, but I just hope that there are some very strict checks and balances within these systems. You know, to prevent … Continue reading
Since nanny Bloomberg has chosen to limit his citizens self defense option his failure to call in the Guard is failure to live up to his obligations as their nanny. tdiinva November 19, 2012 Comment to Bloomberg F-Bombs Request for … Continue reading
Implementation of SkyNet and the Terminator are a little behind the original schedule but progress is still being made: “The team actually started out by building a retina and they came to me and said: ‘Look, it responds to these … Continue reading
How do you know he’s not a robot sent back in time by Skynet to disarm the resistance before it starts? wfgodboldAugust 24, 2010Referring to Robb Allen’s idea for a screenplay of a Terminator sequel where Paul Helmke goes into … Continue reading
Say Uncle wrote about our exobrains this morning then I went to work today and worked on the operating system for one. I fired off a build of the software and I happily noted that the CPU usage on the … Continue reading
At a meeting this morning we were discussing a possible name for a new product. It was suggested that since we already have SkyDrive and SkyMarket (with rumors of SkyLine and SkyBox), maybe we should name the project SkyNet. The consensus was there … Continue reading