Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
China’s Drone Mothership
May 21st, 2025Via: Telegraph: China is preparing to launch a new drone-carrying mothership capable of releasing 100 kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the same time. The Jiu Tan, which means “high sky”, is a high-altitude long-range UAV that can transport weapons and equipment. Over the weekend, state media reported that the fourth prototype had completed its […]
Tesla Optimus Robot AI Training Tasks from Video
May 21st, 2025I’m not just dancing all day, ok pic.twitter.com/rKs5WwKjvf — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) May 21, 2025 Related: “Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago.”
Anduril Fury, Unmanned Fighter Jet
May 19th, 2025Via: 60 Minutes:
Ukraine Using Chinese Consumer Grade Robot Dogs on Battlefield
May 16th, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
Alan Watts: “And So, One By One, People Drift Away”
May 15th, 2025
Update: This Is Fake AI Alan Watts A reader emailed and said he thought this was AI generated. Indeed, it’s AI generated and there’s a disclaimer at the bottom of the video description: Disclaimer: This channel is not officially associated with Alan Watts or his estate. The content shared here is inspired by the teachings […]
Tesla Optimus Robot
May 14th, 2025Was just getting warmed up https://t.co/dN6rSXiLVS pic.twitter.com/JbJ8TxyaAz — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) May 14, 2025
This Film Is Lying
May 12th, 2025THIS FILM IS LYING pic.twitter.com/1QbWxj6LhA — Matt Zien (KNGMKR) (@KNGMKRlabs) May 9, 2025
AI Firms Warned to Calculate Threat of Super Intelligence or Risk it Escaping Human Control
May 10th, 2025Coming soon… Via: Guardian: Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur Compton before the Trinity test and […]
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
May 9th, 2025Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago. Via: IEEE Spectrum: At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform […]
Will Supercapacitors Come to AI’s Rescue?
May 6th, 2025Musk had to use expensive Tesla Megapacks to handle the massive power fluctuations at xAI: AI datacenters, especially during training, bring extreme power fluctuations due to the nature of neural networks (gradient descent). xAI has the largest AI data centers. xAI is using Tesla Megapacks to handle millisecond power fluctuations. Supermicro provided the racks and […]
