Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
September 3rd, 2025Via: Public Health Policy Journal: A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, […]
Mass Vehicle Surveillance in the U.S.
September 1st, 2025Via: Benn Jordan:
“AI Can’t Install an HVAC System”
August 30th, 2025Via: Yahoo!Finance: As AI threatens white-collar workers and hits some college graduates looking for entry-level roles, young people are pouring into blue-collar job training programs. Related: Trump to Allow 600,000 Chinese Students Entry to U.S. for College
Starsage: U.S. Fighter Pilots Test AI “Air Battle Manager” Voice Assistant
August 27th, 2025Via: Fox: For the first time, U.S. fighter pilots took direction from an AI “air battle manager” in a Pentagon test that could change how wars are fought in the skies. The Air Force and Navy ran the August test using Raft AI’s Starsage tactical control system on F-16s, F/A-18s and F-35s during a joint […]
Hacker Used Anthropic AI to Automate an ‘Unprecedented’ Cybercrime Spree
August 27th, 2025Via: CNBC: A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes. In a report published Tuesday, Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, said that an unnamed hacker “used […]
IBM, AMD Partnership on “Quantum-Centric Supercomputing”
August 26th, 2025Via: IBM: Today, IBM and AMD announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM’s leadership in developing the world’s most performant quantum computers […]
YouTube Secretly Used AI to Edit People’s Videos
August 25th, 2025Side note: I found YouTube’s aggressive promotion of shortform video content to be extremely annoying. Hide Youtube-Shorts is very good at blocking those videos. Via: BBC: A growing share of reality is pre-processed by AI before it reaches us. Eventually, the question won’t be whether you can tell the difference, but whether it’s eroding our […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas with Large Behavior Models (LBMs)
August 20th, 2025Via: Boston Dynamics:
Meanwhile, at The First World Humanoid Robot Games
August 18th, 2025Via: Unitree Robotics:
High End GPU Smuggling to China
August 18th, 2025This is a fascinating look into how GPU smuggling networks are getting around U.S. export restrictions to China. This is long and probably not of much interest to most of you, but some will find it very interesting. The part I found most incredible is how gaming-grade GPU silicon is being pulled from existing cards […]
