Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Catherine Austin Fitts on Tucker Carlson
April 29th, 2025Sir James Goldsmith predicting the decline of the west due to the flight of capital in search of slave labor with Charlie Rose in 1994. The battle between capital and labor. Very prophetic interview. And here we are 31 years later. pic.twitter.com/qTiaMab540 — Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) April 29, 2025 — Former Bush administration official Catherine […]
An AI-Generated Radio Host in Australia Went Unnoticed for Months
April 28th, 2025Via: The Verge: For months, a popular Australian radio station has used an AI-generated DJ to host one of its segments — and no one seemed to notice, as reported by the Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. The show, called Workdays with Thy, offers a four-hour mix of hip hop, R&B, and […]
AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
April 17th, 2025Via: Wired: American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications that […]
Lockheed Martin Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility – Night Testing
April 10th, 2025Via: Uncanny Expeditions: Related: Lockheed Martin Helendale RCS Facility
Hyundai to Expand Robot Fleet with Tens of Thousands Atlas Units from Boston Dynamics
April 7th, 2025About the workers in all the new factories being built in the U.S… Via: Interesting Engineering: Hyundai unveiled a $21 billion investment plan in the U.S., which includes $6 billion aimed at fostering innovation and expanding strategic partnerships. As per the agreement, Hyundai will purchase tens of thousands of robots, supporting Boston Dynamics’ growth and […]
The Computer that Runs on Human Neurons
April 6th, 2025I’ve posted about this before. I think it’s worth monitoring closely because my guess is that this (or something like it) is how a disorderly advance in AI could happen. Via: El País: Lab-grown brain cells are the basis for the functioning of the CL1, which has been announced as the first commercially-sold biological computer. […]
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:
