Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
This Film Is Lying
May 12th, 2025THIS FILM IS LYING pic.twitter.com/1QbWxj6LhA — Matt Zien (KNGMKR) (@KNGMKRlabs) May 9, 2025
AI Firms Warned to Calculate Threat of Super Intelligence or Risk it Escaping Human Control
May 10th, 2025Coming soon… Via: Guardian: Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur Compton before the Trinity test and […]
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
May 9th, 2025Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago. Via: IEEE Spectrum: At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform […]
Will Supercapacitors Come to AI’s Rescue?
May 6th, 2025Musk had to use expensive Tesla Megapacks to handle the massive power fluctuations at xAI: AI datacenters, especially during training, bring extreme power fluctuations due to the nature of neural networks (gradient descent). xAI has the largest AI data centers. xAI is using Tesla Megapacks to handle millisecond power fluctuations. Supermicro provided the racks and […]
Ukraine War: Attack Drones with Unjammable Fiber Optic Links
May 5th, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
Aurora Begins Commercial Self-Driving Truck Service in Texas (Without Safety Drivers)
May 2nd, 2025Via: TechCrunch: Autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovation says it has successfully launched a self-driving truck service in Texas, making it the first company to deploy driverless, heavy-duty trucks for commercial use on public roads in the U.S. The launch comes just as Aurora hits its deadline; in October, the company delayed its planned 2024 […]
Trump Posts AI Generated Picture of Himself as Pope on Truth Social
May 2nd, 2025Where does one even start??? Trump Posts AI Generated Picture of Himself as Pope on Truth Social Screenshot and source: https://t.co/EfRKgkfxCz pic.twitter.com/oXYfDgloxV — cryptogon (@cryptogon) May 3, 2025 Related [???]: Trump Gaza
Drones Attack Gaza Aid Ship in International Waters
May 2nd, 2025I wonder who would do such a thing? Hmm. Via: Al Jazeera: A ship carrying aid to Gaza in a bid to break Israel’s blockade has been hit by drones in international waters off Malta, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), the group that organised the mission. The FFC said in a statement on […]
Catherine Austin Fitts on Tucker Carlson
April 29th, 2025Sir James Goldsmith predicting the decline of the west due to the flight of capital in search of slave labor with Charlie Rose in 1994. The battle between capital and labor. Very prophetic interview. And here we are 31 years later. pic.twitter.com/qTiaMab540 — Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) April 29, 2025 — Former Bush administration official Catherine […]
An AI-Generated Radio Host in Australia Went Unnoticed for Months
April 28th, 2025Via: The Verge: For months, a popular Australian radio station has used an AI-generated DJ to host one of its segments — and no one seemed to notice, as reported by the Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. The show, called Workdays with Thy, offers a four-hour mix of hip hop, R&B, and […]
