Archive for the 'Technology' Category
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
May 18th, 2024Via: Wired: In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of the company’s cofounders, was named as the colead of this new team. OpenAI said the […]
What Are The Privacy Risks Of ChatGPT-4o? “They Stress that the Training Information Is not Used to Profile People, or to Learn About Them”
May 18th, 2024Via: Forbes: The privacy implications of ChatGPT are two-pronged, says Oliver Willis, partner at BDB Pitmans. “From a user’s perspective, how does ChatGPT collect and use data about you when you are using it? From everyone else’s perspective, was ChatGPT trained on information about you and what will it tell users about you?” In its […]
Lithium from Shale Gas Well Waste Water
May 15th, 2024Via: University of Pittsburgh: Most batteries used in technology like smart watches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater? A new analysis using compliance data from the Pennsylvania […]
Police Issued QR Codes to Enter Parts of Paris This Summer
May 14th, 2024Via: Metro: The capital of France– Paris – will be split into zones this summer, with anyone wanting to enter certain areas required to show a pass on their phone. Special measures will be in place throughout the city as part of increased security around the Olympic Games, which start in July. Anyone wishing to […]
U.S. Spy Satellites
May 14th, 2024Via: Covert Cabal:
Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model
May 13th, 2024A few initial thoughts… This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review each of these […]
Cubic Millimetre of Brain Mapped in Spectacular Detail
May 13th, 2024Via: Nature: Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that […]
Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief
May 13th, 2024Via: The National Interest: The future loyal wingmen of the United States Air Force are inching closer to becoming a reality, and more importantly, the artificial intelligence (AI) controlled aircraft could be on track to be as good as any human pilot. That was the assessment from Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who recently took […]
Apple Reportedly Near Deal To Infuse ChatGPT Into iPhones
May 13th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Apple is nearing a deal with Microsoft-backed OpenAI to infuse its large language model, known as ChatGPT, into the future iPhone operating system, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the discussions. The two sides have been finalizing terms for a pact to use ChatGPT features in Apple’s iOS 18, the next iPhone […]
Pentagon’s UFO Office Under Kirkpatrick Was a Scam Designed to Maintain Secrecy
May 9th, 2024Imagine my shock. But the whole thing might be a case of good cop bad cop, with Mellon playing the good cop and Kirkpatrick playing the bad cop: The “bad cop” takes an aggressive, negative stance towards the subject, making blatant accusations, derogatory comments, threats, and in general creating antipathy with the subject. This sets […]
