Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Meta Joins Rivals in Pursuit of Human-Level AI
January 19th, 2024Flashback: Zuckerberg Mocked After Ridiculous, Cringe Inducing $10 Billion VR Boondoggle And now… Via: AFP: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google. Sometimes called artificial general intelligence or AGI, the goal, given in an […]
Drivers: We’ll Take Plain Dumb Car Over Flashy Data-Spilling Internet One, Thanks
January 15th, 2024Via: Register: Despite all the buzz around internet-connected smart cars at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, most folks don’t want vehicle manufacturers sharing their personal data with third parties – and even say they’d consider buying an older or dumber car to protect their privacy and security. According to a survey of 2,000 Americans […]
Microsoft Starts Copilot at Windows Startup on Development Builds
January 15th, 2024I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it would be a bad idea to use a system with this AI running in the background. Apparently, it can be turned off, for now. Via: Register: Microsoft is experimenting with having Copilot open automatically upon Windows startup. Described as a “Change and […]
The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain
January 13th, 2024In short, researchers are creating a large training dataset from multiple robotics laboratories and robotic systems. All of the different robots performed better when using the multirobot training data than with training data gathered from the individual robots. I don’t know if this will result in the sort of quantum leap in robotics that happened […]
DJI FlyCart 30 Delivery Drone Can Carry 30KGs
January 12th, 2024Via: DJI:
Microsoft Adding an AI Key to PC Keyboards
January 4th, 2024Microsoft can pry my right CTRL key from my cold, dead fingers. Via: Ars Technica: Microsoft pushed throughout 2023 to add generative AI capabilities to its software, even extending its new Copilot AI assistant to Windows 10 late last year. Now, those efforts to transform PCs at a software level is extending to the hardware: […]
Ukraine Plans to Flood Battlefield with Locally Made First-Person View Drones
December 22nd, 2023Via: The Warzone: Kyiv says it plans to manufacture around a million first-person view (FPV) drones next year, as part of expanding efforts to build uncrewed aircraft of different types. Used for reconnaissance and attack, the FPV drone is a weapon that has had a significant impact on the battlefield, as well as producing some […]
Chinese Spaceplane Has Released Multiple Mystery Objects In Orbit
December 22nd, 2023Via: The Warzone: China’s shadowy miniature spaceplane appears to have deployed at least six objects into orbit while conducting its latest mission, its third. The reusable space vehicle, which is understood to be broadly comparable to the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B, clearly has military applications, although the exact nature of its payloads remains mysterious. The […]
Synaptic Transistors
December 22nd, 2023Via: Live Science: Scientists have designed a transistor that stores and processes information like the human brain and can perform cognitive tasks that most artificial intelligence (AI) systems today struggle with. This technology, known as a “synaptic transistor,” mimics the architecture of the human brain — in which the processing power and memory are fully […]
Pentagon Seeks EMP Weapon To Eliminate Drone Swarms
December 14th, 2023Mmm hmm. Via: ZeroHedge: Faced with the reality that drones are reshaping the modern battlefields in Ukraine and Gaza, the Pentagon has been tasked with finding a budget-friendly solution to eliminate these ‘flying IEDs.’ While missiles are too expensive, and laser beams are a distant dream, the next best cost-effective weapon US military officials are […]
