Archive for the 'Technology' Category
ChatGPT Can Pass U.S. Medical Licensing Exam and the Bar, Received B Grade on Wharton MBA Paper
January 23rd, 2023I was aware of Minecraft from around 2010. I didn’t play it, but I thought that it was an interesting… Novelty. In 2014, Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Minecraft. Woh. Today, most people, even old, non-technical people, have heard of Minecraft. But if you don’t know what Minecraft is, your children and/or your grandchildren […]
New Docs Show White House Directed Covid-19 Censorship
January 18th, 2023Via: The Highwire: It’s official, the White House, at “the highest levels” was involved intimately with quarterbacking the COVID-19 vaccine censorship complex. New documents obtained by litigation now show that Facebook was actively censoring accurate content that rightfully questioned the shots – from the science to personal experiences.
FBI Reveals It Uses CIA and NSA to Spy on Americans
January 16th, 2023Mmm hmm. Flashback nearly a decade on Cryptogon: U.S. Communications Intelligence Secretly Shares with Law Enforcement for Use Against Americans in Criminal Investigations: After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers […]
Laser Used to Redirect Lightning Strikes
January 16th, 2023Via: StudyFinds: Scientists in France have created a way to divert lightning strikes using a weather-controlling super laser. Researchers with the Polytechnic Institute of Paris guided the strikes from thunderclouds to places where they don’t cause damage. The team says the new technique could save power stations, airports, launchpads, and other buildings from disaster. The […]
“NVIDIA Technology Will Make Sure You Never Lose Eye Contact”
January 14th, 2023Via: VideoCardz: The latest version of NVIDIA Broadcast is now live. It adds a new effect which aligns the gaze on the camera. Content creators will now be able to read the scripts while NVIDIA technology will ensure that they are looking at the camera. The Eye Contact effect has been implemented into Broadcast software […]
FAA Says Computer Failure that Grounded Thousands of Flights Was Caused by 2 Contractors Who Introduced Data Errors into NOTAM System
January 14th, 2023Via: Fortune: The computer failure that prompted a halt of all US flight departures was caused when a data file was damaged as a result of a failure to follow government procedures, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. Unspecified “personnel” were responsible for corrupting the file, which led to the outage of an FAA computer system […]
FAA Computer Problem Causes Most Flight Delays and Cancellations Since 9/11
January 11th, 2023Via: USA Today: A computer glitch at the Federal Aviation Administration delayed airline traffic across much of the nation early Wednesday, and the agency said it was working to restore the system. The FAA instituted a nationwide pause on departures, known as a ground stop, for part of the morning Wednesday but that order had […]
AI-Powered Lawyer Will Represent Defendant in Court
January 10th, 2023Via: CBS: A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight a traffic ticket in court next month. Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells […]
VALL-E: Microsoft’s New Speech Synthesis AI Can Mimic A Speaker’s Voice From A Three Second Sample
January 9th, 2023Many audio examples are at the link. Via: Microsoft – Github: We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language modeling task rather than […]
John Deere Will Allow U.S. Farmers to Repair Their Own Equipment
January 9th, 2023Via: Engadget: John Deere has been one of the stauncher opponents of right to repair regulation, but it’s now willing to make some concessions. Deere & Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) that lets US farmers and independent repair shops fix equipment, rather than requiring the use […]
