Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Toyota: Car Location Data of 2 Million Customers Exposed for Ten Years
May 12th, 2023Via: Bleeping Computer: Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. According to a security notice published in the company’s Japanese newsroom, the data breach resulted from a database misconfiguration that allowed anyone […]
Taiwan Says Its Military Won’t Let the U.S. Blow Up Semiconductor Factories
May 11th, 2023In other news, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sold 85% of $4 Billion Position in Taiwan’s TSMC. Via: Antiwar.com: Taiwan’s defense minister on Monday pushed back against the idea of the US bombing the island’s semiconductor factories in the event of a Chinese invasion. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) recently said the US should “make it very […]
AI Chatbot to Replace Human Order-Takers at Wendy’s Drive-Thru
May 9th, 2023Via: Techspot: Your next interaction at the drive-thru could be with an AI chatbot instead of a human order-taker, and you might not even know it. Fast-food giant Wendy’s has partnered with Google to trial an artificial intelligence chatbot at one of its restaurants in its home state of Ohio. The chatbot will be trained […]
World On Cusp Of Woke Totalitarianism As Governments Act To End Freedom Of Speech
May 5th, 2023Via: Public: The Twitter Files gave us a window into how government agencies, civil society, and tech companies work together to censor social media users. Now, key nations are attempting to enshrine this coordination into law explicitly. Around the world, politicians have either just passed or are on the cusp of passing sweeping new laws, […]
Supposedly Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI
May 5th, 2023There will be closed and open source alternatives that will allow users to customize the models’ worldviews. —WokeGPT That didn’t take long. I thought it would take at least several months for them to attain something GPT3.5-like. Nope. —OpenAssistant Released I don’t know if this is real or not, but it makes for interesting reading. […]
Organoid Intelligence
May 3rd, 2023Via: Forbes: While the world has been captivated by recent advances in artificial intelligence, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have identified a new form of intelligence: organoid intelligence. A future where computers are powered by lab-grown brain cells may be closer than we could ever have imagined. What is an organoid? Organoids are three-dimensional tissue […]
IBM Outsourcing Thousands of Jobs to AI
May 2nd, 2023Via: Bloomberg: International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years. Hiring in back-office functions — such as human resources — will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said in an interview. These non-customer-facing roles […]
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
