Archive for the 'Technology' Category
IMF Unveils New Global Currency Known As The “Universal Monetary Unit”
April 15th, 2023Via: The Economic Collapse Blog: The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies. This should set off alarm bells for all of us, because the widespread adoption of a new “global currency” would be a […]
Musk Incorporates X.AI
April 14th, 2023Via: The Verge: Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, listed as […]
What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
April 14th, 2023Via: cohere.ai: So why would a transformer model build text word by word? One answer is, because that works really well. A more satisfying one is that because transformers are so incredibly good at keeping track of the context, that the next word they pick is exactly what it needs to keep going with an […]
SpaceX Receives a Launch License from the FAA for Starship
April 14th, 2023Via: Ars Technica: On Friday afternoon—after much angst and anxious waiting by the spaceflight community—the Federal Aviation Administration issued a launch license to SpaceX for the launch of its Starship rocket from South Texas. “After a comprehensive license evaluation process, the FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy, payload, airspace integration and financial responsibility […]
Hackers Claim Vast Access to Western Digital Systems
April 13th, 2023Via: TechCrunch: The hackers who breached data storage giant Western Digital claim to have stolen around 10 terabytes of data from the company, including reams of customer information. The extortionists are pushing the company to negotiate a ransom — of “minimum 8 figures” — in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. … One of […]
NYPD Reboots Cyborg Police Dog After Backlash
April 11th, 2023Via: New York Daily News: Digidog, the NYPD robot pooch, is back and department leaders promise it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it. Two years after the $74,000 robot canine program landed the NYPD in the doghouse with civil rights […]
When Does the Narrative Replace Reality?
April 9th, 2023Via: Truthstream Media: Backup:
“Beware of the trillion dimensional space… There is a lot that you can do with a trillion parameters.”
April 7th, 2023“There is some intelligence in this system.” “It could absolutely build an internal representation of the world and act on it…” Also, later in the talk, he demonstrates hilarious basic math failures. Via: Sebastien Bubeck: Related: Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence” We need to tell people ChatGPT will […]
ChatGPT Comes for Low Wage Natural Language Processing Classifier Jobs
April 7th, 2023Via: arXiv: Many NLP applications require manual data annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size and degree of complexity, the tasks may be conducted by crowd-workers on platforms such as MTurk as well as trained annotators, such as research assistants. Using […]
Well-Known Crypto Tech Exec Murdered In San Francisco Stabbing
April 5th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Well-known crypto tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed to death early Tuesday morning near downtown San Francisco. The 43-year-old Lee was perhaps best known for starting Cash App, and as former CTO of Square. He was the chief product officer of San Francisco-based crypto startup MobileCoin. … San Francisco police responded at around […]
