Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Achieve AGI By Just Scaling Compute?
February 20th, 2024Video Generation Models as World Simulators: We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is […]
“Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones Heard Warnings from the FBI of Imminent Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.”
February 18th, 2024It is possible, maybe even likely, that nothing unusual will happen. (“Nothing unusual,” assumes that you understand that many major U.S. cities are already existing in what I’d consider to be a state of collapse.) Privately, I have been advising people inside the U.S. to be at full readiness and far away from cities before […]
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World
February 17th, 2024Via: Unlimited Hangout: In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger. … […]
Microsoft Investing 3.2 Billion Euros In Germany For AI Research
February 17th, 2024Via: Reuters: U.S. software giant Microsoft will invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.44 billion) in Germany in the next two years, mostly in artificial intelligence, offering a boost to Europe’s largest economy as it faces its worst slump in 20 years. With its biggest investment in Germany in the last 40 years Microsoft aims to double […]
2014: Air Force Research: How to Use Social Media to Control People Like Drones
February 16th, 2024I was considering the success of the Covid operation and what the upcoming AI generated video capabilities will enable, in terms of social control. Think about applying advanced AI tools to this decade old research. It could make Covid look like tiddlywinks. Via: Ars Technica: Military social network research has been ongoing over the past […]
Open AI Announces Sora, an AI Text to Video Model
February 16th, 2024Up until now, text to video AI has been most effective for generating surreal and hilarious nightmare fuel. Morphing humanoids and other bizarre hallucinations make for a sort of weird comedy gold: OpenAI’s Sora produces much more impressive results. While many of the example videos contain anomalies, these tend be far less glaring than with […]
U.S. Air Force Takes Delivery of First Autonomous Electric Cargo Plane
February 14th, 2024Via: Electrek: Pyka, a Silicon Valley startup, delivered its first electric autonomous cargo plane to AFWERX, the US Air Force’s network of innovators. … Pyka’s CEO believes DAF is “an ideal customer” for the long-range electric aircraft. Powered by four electric motors (100 kW combined) and a 50 kWh lithium-ion battery, the Pelican Cargo has […]
SpaceX Readying Four Rockets on Launchpads Simultaneously
February 14th, 2024If we exclude woowoo theories, no other entity has had more of a space launch capability than SpaceX. Four SpaceX rockets vertical on SpaceX's four launch pads in Florida, California, and Texas pic.twitter.com/KpXXDyDKao — SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 14, 2024
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) — […]
