Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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 […]
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization, “I Hope There’s Nobody Inside There”
April 3rd, 2023I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been reading, watching and listening to things like this all weekend. Via: Lex Fridman: Related: They Don’t Know How It Works In the Battle Between Microsoft and Google, LLM Is the Weapon Too Deadly to Use
Boston Dynamics: Stretch
March 30th, 2023Via: Boston Dynamics:
RESTRICT Act Is Orwellian Censorship Grab Disguised As Anti-TikTok Legislation
March 30th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: The RESTRICT Act, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tom Thune (R-SD), is aimed at blocking or disrupting transactions and financial holdings linked to foreign adversaries that pose a risk to national security, however the language of the bill could be used to give the US government enormous power to punish free […]
