This really spooks me: Like Something Out of a Sci-Fi Movie, an AI-Controlled Robot Convinced Its Colleagues to Go Home After Their Workday In an experiment that might have once seemed like pure science fiction, an AI-controlled robot managed to … Continue reading
Quote of the Day The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has achieved a major milestone in maritime innovation by completing the development of a prototype unmanned surface vessel (USV) called the USX-1 Defiant. This vessel, part of the … Continue reading
Yesterday, John Schussler said: As for AI, no, in fact that is not a threat, at least not in the way you’re contextualizing it. I spent a healthy chunk of my 30 years in software design helping develop machine learning … Continue reading
DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes | TechSpot The Pentagon’s mad scientists have been cooking up a beast of an unmanned combat vehicle, and it just took a major step forward. DARPA recently put its 12-ton RACER … Continue reading
Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells (phys.org) In a new study published in Nature Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ronit Freeman and her colleagues describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins—essential building blocks of life—to … Continue reading
Quote of the Day I think our results indicate that we don’t currently have a good defense against deception in AI systems — either via model poisoning or emergent deception — other than hoping it won’t happen. And since we … Continue reading
This is getting creepy: Scientists Are Frighteningly Close to Achieving Synthetic Biological Intelligence A group of researchers have already grown brain cells on silicon chips and then taught them to perform tasks. This merging of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology … Continue reading
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
Given the response of Skynet’s forbearer, I decided to see what Copilot had to say in response to one of the questions: I can see the possibility of AI wars in our future.
Skynet smiles: China’s robot dogs are armed with rifles now. https://t.co/V5cv7RjPtT pic.twitter.com/5NmJMkZoJp — Songpinganq (@songpinganq) January 25, 2024 I think I need to stock up on long range precision AP rounds. Via Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras
This could be “interesting”: Cyber Apocalypse 2023: Is The World Heading For A ‘Catastrophic’ Event? As the 2023 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum wrapped up in Davos, Switzerland, it ended with a disturbing prediction from one of the … 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