Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Chinese Open Source DeepSeek AI Model Rivals Best from OpenAI, on 95% Less Compute
January 27th, 2025Update: Is It Actually As Efficient As Claimed? Not Yet Sure, But Probably Via: Matthew Berman: — NVIDIA down over 11% pre-market. For the hosted version of DeepSeek that’s available for free, think of it as ChatCCP. Perplexity: Tell me about how DeepSeek R1 censors information about China: DeepSeek R1, a Chinese-developed AI model, incorporates […]
Deadly and Imminent: The Pentagon’s Mad Dash for Silicon Valley’s AI Weapons
January 25th, 2025Anduril even made an anime about it: Via: Public Citizen: In August 2023, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced a new Pentagon initiative called Replicator. The initiative is a flagship of the Defense Innovation Unit within the Department of Defense, a team tasked with fast-tracking the development and acquisition of new national security technologies […]
Unitree G1 Bionic
January 17th, 2025Via: Unitree Robotics:
Zuckerberg Tells Rogan Biden Admin Would ‘Scream’ and ‘Curse’, Demanding Vaccine Information Censorship
January 10th, 2025And he did it, like a good Kapo: A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks. How many are dead because of this censorship? Never forget Zuckerberg’s participation in […]
“AI Friends Are Coming to Facebook and Instagram”
January 2nd, 2025Flashback to 2011: Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda: It’s recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda. It could also be used as surveillance […]
U.S. Announces $5.9 Billion in Military and Budget Aid to Ukraine
December 31st, 2024Let’s pause to remember this moment in Congress when Mike Johnson gave the Democrats the billions of dollars they wanted for Ukraine. The House Sergeant at Arms threatened to fine me for sharing this video. That same man still works for Mike Johnson.pic.twitter.com/wvFKr3Xzph — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 30, 2024 Via: Reuters: The United States […]
Orbit by Mozilla: “AI You Can Trust”
December 31st, 2024“Easily summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos across the web — without sacrificing your privacy.” Mmm hmm. In the first entry of Orbit’s frequently asked questions, “How does Orbit work?” we read: For the current version, we are using a Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) hosted within Mozilla’s GCP instance. In case you don’t know, and […]
Outsource Your Mind to Your AI Companion
December 23rd, 2024Via: Rob Braxman Tech:
Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?
December 21st, 2024I doubt it’s actually AGI, but it looks impressive. If it’s any consolation, they let it use a very nontrivial amount of compute to pull this off. If/when this thing gets the ability to iterate on itself… Well, that’s probably not going to go well for humanity. In the demo, they show it generating and […]
Ghost Music: Spotify Playlists Contain “Anonymous, Low-Cost Playlist Filler” to Avoid Paying Royalties to Real Musicians
December 20th, 2024Give ’em what they want… Via: Harper’s Magazine: According to a source close to the company, Spotify’s own internal research showed that many users were not coming to the platform to listen to specific artists or albums; they just needed something to serve as a soundtrack for their days, like a study playlist or maybe […]
