Archive for the 'Technology' Category
AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
February 12th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: Decades after automation began taking and transforming manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is coming for the higher-ups in the corporate office. The list of white-collar layoffs is growing almost daily and include jobs cuts at Google, Duolingo and UPS in recent weeks. While the total number of jobs directly lost to generative […]
Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5 to $7 Trillion for AI Chips
February 11th, 2024Via: Business Insider: The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with officials from the United Arab Emirates to pitch his plan to build lots and lots of new chip factories. The cost? $5 trillion to $7 trillion. OpenAI needs more computing power (currently, it relies on Microsoft for this) — […]
Alabama: Thieves Somehow Steal 200ft Radio Tower
February 10th, 2024Via: Action News 5: A 200-foot AM radio tower in Alabama is gone, stolen without a trace. WJLX’s AM station signal has been greatly impacted by the theft in Walker County. Station general manager Brett Elmore said he remains hopeful that somebody will share information to help law enforcement find those responsible for the theft. […]
AI Deployed Nukes ‘to Have Peace in the World’ During War Simulation
February 7th, 2024Via: Gizmodo: The United States military is one of many organizations embracing AI in our modern age, but it may want to pump the brakes a bit. A new study using AI in foreign policy decision-making found how quickly the tech would call for war instead of finding peaceful resolutions. Some AI in the study […]
Tech Layoffs
February 7th, 2024Via: TechLead:
“First 3D-Printed Functional Human Brain Tissue Grows Like the Real Thing”
February 7th, 2024Via: New Atlas: Researchers have used a novel technique to 3D print brain tissue whose cells developed into functional neurons that communicated with each other in a matter of weeks. They say the approach could be used to study healthy and unhealthy brains, test drugs, or simply observe how the brain develops. Creating an organ […]
Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
February 6th, 2024Via: Space Weather Archive: Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. In only a few short years, the satellite population has skyrocketed, more than doubling since 2020. In the past year alone, more satellites have been launched than during the first thirty years of the Space Age. Much of this activity is driven by SpaceX […]
Chinese Migrants Are Fastest Growing Group Crossing Into U.S. from Mexico, “We Can ‘Soft Control’ Users… To Drive Them Where We Want Them”
February 5th, 2024Before watching the 60 Minutes piece below, please see this article from 2012: Using Virtual Worlds to ‘Soft Control’ People’s Movements in the Real One: Researchers can’t force mobile users to behave in a certain way, but researchers at Northwestern University have found that they may be able to nudge users in the right direction […]
AI Programmed to Resist State-of-the-Art Safety Controls
February 2nd, 2024Via: LiveScience: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that were trained to be secretly malicious resisted state-of-the-art safety methods designed to “purge” them of dishonesty, a disturbing new study found. Researchers programmed various large language models (LLMs) — generative AI systems similar to ChatGPT — to behave maliciously. Then, they tried to remove this behavior by applying […]
Starlink’s Laser System Is Beaming Over 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day
February 2nd, 2024Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX’s laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. “We’re passing over terabits per second [of data] every day across 9,000 lasers,” SpaceX engineer Travis Brashears said today at SPIE Photonics West, an event in […]
