Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
AI 2027
April 4th, 2025Via: AI 2027: We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.
AI-Based Model Streams Intelligible Speech from Thoughts
April 2nd, 2025Via: Berkeley Engineering: Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when a subject […]
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
April 2nd, 2025I thought this train left the station a couple of years ago. Maybe not. Via: arXiv: We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas: Walk, Run, Crawl, Reinforcement Learning Fun
March 19th, 2025Uh… Via: Boston Dynamics:
And That’s The Truth
March 15th, 2025Via: Truthstream Media:
“How The Military Wants AI To Help Control America’s Nuclear Arsenal”
March 11th, 2025I love it: “We do not have, you know, a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters. Nor would we ever have a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters.” Via: The War Zone: While it has long been a world-ending threat in science fiction, U.S. Air Force and Space Force officials see artificial intelligence (AI) playing important, if not critical […]
Ukraine Attacked Moscow with Hundreds of Drones
March 11th, 2025Via: The War Zone: Ukrainian drones pummeled Moscow overnight, only hours before high-stakes talks began in Saudi Arabia between officials from Ukraine and the United States. The attack on the Russian capital, using long-range one-way attack drones, was the biggest of the conflict so far, local officials claimed. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, […]
‘Body in a Box’: World’s First Computer Powered by Human Brain Cells
March 6th, 2025Via: Independent: An Australian startup has unveiled the world’s first commercial biological computer that runs on living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, describing it as a “body in a box” that holds the potential to revolutionise AI and robotics. The computer uses lab-grown […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas: Pick, Carry, Place, Repeat
March 5th, 2025Via: Boston Dynamics:
TSMC to Invest $100 Billion in U.S. Chip Manufacturing
March 3rd, 2025Via: Bloomberg: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s top producer of AI chips, plans to invest an additional $100 billion in US plants that will boost its chip output on American soil and support President Donald Trump’s goal of increasing domestic manufacturing.
