Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car
February 28th, 2024After a decade of work and likely billions of dollars… Via: Reuters: Apple has canceled work on its electric car, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, a decade after the iPhone maker kicked off the project. … Several employees working on the electric car project will be shifted to the firm’s […]
Nvidia CEO Says Kids Shouldn’t Learn to Code – They Should Leave It Up to AI
February 26th, 2024Mmm hmm. Via: tom’sHARDWARE: At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with what he thinks is a long tradition of tech CEOs advising youngsters to learn how to code. Huang argued that, even at this early stage of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, programming is no […]
Google Apologizes After Gemini AI Refuses to Show Pictures, Achievements of White People
February 21st, 2024Go for the Chinese American Revolutionary War soldiers. Stay for the African Vikings. Comedy Gold while it lasts: Google’s Gemini AI Blasted For Eliminating White People From Image Searches And these criminals are planning to get all of us (and our children) to outsource our brains to these things. haha Our AI dystopian hell is […]
Achieve AGI By Just Scaling Compute?
February 20th, 2024Video Generation Models as World Simulators: We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is […]
Microsoft Investing 3.2 Billion Euros In Germany For AI Research
February 17th, 2024Via: Reuters: U.S. software giant Microsoft will invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.44 billion) in Germany in the next two years, mostly in artificial intelligence, offering a boost to Europe’s largest economy as it faces its worst slump in 20 years. With its biggest investment in Germany in the last 40 years Microsoft aims to double […]
Open AI Announces Sora, an AI Text to Video Model
February 16th, 2024Up until now, text to video AI has been most effective for generating surreal and hilarious nightmare fuel. Morphing humanoids and other bizarre hallucinations make for a sort of weird comedy gold: OpenAI’s Sora produces much more impressive results. While many of the example videos contain anomalies, these tend be far less glaring than with […]
U.S. Air Force Takes Delivery of First Autonomous Electric Cargo Plane
February 14th, 2024Via: Electrek: Pyka, a Silicon Valley startup, delivered its first electric autonomous cargo plane to AFWERX, the US Air Force’s network of innovators. … Pyka’s CEO believes DAF is “an ideal customer” for the long-range electric aircraft. Powered by four electric motors (100 kW combined) and a 50 kWh lithium-ion battery, the Pelican Cargo has […]
AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
February 12th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: Decades after automation began taking and transforming manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is coming for the higher-ups in the corporate office. The list of white-collar layoffs is growing almost daily and include jobs cuts at Google, Duolingo and UPS in recent weeks. While the total number of jobs directly lost to generative […]
San Francisco: Waymo Robotaxi Goes Up In Flames After Crowd Attacks Vehicle
February 11th, 2024Via: The San Francisco Standard: A crowd in San Francisco’s Chinatown surrounded a Waymo robotaxi on Saturday night, broke the windows and threw fireworks inside, setting the vehicle ablaze, the company said. The incident occurred on Jackson Street near Grant around 9 p.m. Waymo said that the autonomous vehicle was not transporting any passengers at […]
AI Deployed Nukes ‘to Have Peace in the World’ During War Simulation
February 7th, 2024Via: Gizmodo: The United States military is one of many organizations embracing AI in our modern age, but it may want to pump the brakes a bit. A new study using AI in foreign policy decision-making found how quickly the tech would call for war instead of finding peaceful resolutions. Some AI in the study […]
