Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Could ChatGPT Create a New Religion?
May 2nd, 2023Flashback 2017: Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence Via: Daily Mail: The world is on the verge of a new religion created by artificial intelligence, the historian Yuval Noah Harari has claimed. The academic – known for his bestselling book Sapiens – said software such as ChatGPT could attract worshippers by writing its own […]
‘Godfather of AI’ Quits Google, Talks About Dangers of the Technology
May 2nd, 2023Via: The Verge: Geoffrey Hinton, who alongside two other so-called “Godfathers of AI” won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work that led to the current boom in artificial intelligence, now says a part of him regrets his life’s work. Hinton recently quit his job at Google in order to speak freely about the […]
Internet in a Box
April 29th, 2023Physical books are best in a collapse situation, but with a bit of planning, one would be able to search and access millions of pages of information without the Internet. Customize an “Offline Internet” for your school, for your community — or for your very own family! Check it out: Internet in a Box
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sold 85% of $4 Billion Position in Taiwan’s TSMC
April 28th, 2023If China was to invade Taiwan, there might be a plan to prevent any of TSMC’s fabs from falling into Chinese hands: The US would sooner see TSMC fabs destroyed than fall into Chinese hands should Xi Jinping invade Taiwan, according to a former national security advisor to the Trump administration. “The United States and […]
Inside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School Laptops
April 27th, 2023Assuming you think it’s ok for children to have access to these devices during school (I don’t), the IT departments could easily implement domain whitelists. This means that only sites explicitly whitelisted by the administrators would be accessible by the students. All of that said, I salute the entrepreneurial genius of the boy who makes […]
AI-Generated Pizza Commercial
April 26th, 2023AI generated video is mostly nightmare fuel at this point. But this… I laughed so hard, I nearly injured myself. Via: tom’s HARDWARE: In the last few months, we’ve seen how large language models such as ChatGPT can generate text copy, how image generators like Stable Diffusion can create pictures on demand and even how […]
Japan’s ispace Seeks to Land First Private Spacecraft on the Moon
April 25th, 2023Update: Lost Communications, Landing Probably Failed — Live: Via: EL PAÍS: The Japanese probe Hakuto-R — which is about the size of a large refrigerator — will try to land in Atlas, an impact crater in the far north of the Moon, within the unexplored Mare Frigoris, or Sea of Cold. If it succeeds, it […]
“People Are Getting Plastic Surgery Now So They Can Try To Look Like These Filters”
April 24th, 2023I just emailed this to a friend with a teenage daughter who is a heavy Tiktok user. I thought Tiktok was mostly a bunch of short attention span nonsense, wasting people’s time. Nope. It’s much worse than that. Names have been changed: Hi John I saw a disturbing video about TikTok. I remember you mentioning […]
CATL Announces 500 Wh/Kg “Semi-Solid State” Battery
April 22nd, 2023Batteries with an energy density around 500 Wh/kg could definitely be a game changer, depending on cost and cycle life, but none of those details were released. Via: PV Magazine: Chinese battery giant CATL on Wednesday unveiled a new ultra-high energy battery technology initially slated for aviation, and with an automotive cell under development. The […]
Alphabet CEO’s Pay Soars to $226 Million on Huge Stock Award as Thousands Fired
April 22nd, 2023Via: Bloomberg: The pay package awarded to Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai soared to $226 million in 2022, boosted by a triennial stock grant, making him one of the world’s highest-paid corporate leaders. … In January, Alphabet started cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce, following months of other measures […]
