Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Create an AI Clone of Yourself
August 12th, 2024Via: Fox Business:
And Now… “Robot Dog With Gun Turret For Hunting Aerial Drones Being Tested By Army”
August 8th, 2024Via: The War Zone: A rifle-toting “robot dog” has become one of the latest additions to the ever-expanding array of concepts the U.S. military is exploring to help protect friendly forces from drones. Observations from the war in Ukraine and ongoing crises in the Middle East have provided renewed impetus for the acquisition of new […]
Could AI Robots with Lasers Make Herbicides – and Farm Workers – Obsolete?
August 4th, 2024Via: Los Angeles Times: The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer morning as nearly 200 farmers, academics and engineers gathered to witness the future of automated agriculture. Thirteen hulking machines with names like “Weed Spider” and “Mantis” crawled through rows of romaine. One used artificial intelligence cameras to […]
Ukraine War: First Successful One Way Drone Attack On In-Flight Helicopter
August 2nd, 2024Via: The Warzone: This morning, a Russian Mi-8AMTSh Hip helicopter crashed near Donetsk City. Russian sources report it was downed by a Ukrainian one-way attack drone. “Yesterday we wrote about the enemy’s attempts to operate drones against our army aviation,” wrote the Voivode Broadcasts Telegram channel, which first reported the incident. “Unfortunately… today they succeeded.” […]
Fully-Automatic Robot Dentist Performs World’s First Human Procedure
August 2nd, 2024Via: New Atlas: Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it. The system, built by Boston company Perceptive, uses a hand-held 3D […]
Argentina Will Use AI to ‘Predict Future Crimes’
August 1st, 2024Via: Guardian: Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights. The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data […]
New Air Force Drone Can Fly for Over Three Days Without Refueling
July 24th, 2024Via: Defense One: The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days. And it’s already flying missions in the Middle East. … The glider-like ULTRA drone can stay in the air for 80 hours without refueling […]
Microsoft’s AI Speech Generator Achieves Human Parity, Too Dangerous to Release
July 12th, 2024Mmm hmm. Meanwhile… OpenAI’s new voice synthesizer can copy your voice from just 15 seconds of audio From 2019: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds From 2016: Adobe Voco: Via: Techspot: Microsoft has developed a new iteration of its neural codec language model, Vall-E, that surpasses previous efforts in terms of naturalness, […]
Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars
July 9th, 2024Via: Autoweek: Cars have been able to figure out when they’re speeding for a while, thanks to GPS as well as traffic sign recognition, and they’ve also been able to pump the brakes automatically when needed. Having a computer automatically slow down a car in response to posted speed limits, therefore, was not really a […]
China: Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Used to Control Robot
July 3rd, 2024I like how it sits in a dish of nutrient agar! I know I’ve seen something like this in multiple animes decades ago, but I don’t remember which ones. Update: Found a Few… Robotech: The Invid Brain, also known as a Living Computer, was an advanced organic based supercomputer created by the Invid to direct […]
