Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
“Lab-Grown Living Skin Created by Scientists Hoping to Make More Human-Like Cyborgs”
June 27th, 2024It looks like they’re off to a great start. (Prepare yourself.) pic.twitter.com/TQCA3zYII5 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 27, 2024 Via: New York Post: It’s the face of the future. A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of […]
Google Whistleblower Zach Vorhies “They Are Causing AI Schizophrenia,” “People Are Programmed”
June 22nd, 2024Via: Project Unity: Full interview:
Starlink Mini
June 21st, 2024SpaceX is rolling out the Starlink Mini; a portable Starlink groundstation roughly the size of a laptop computer. Musk said, “This product will change the world.” I can see how that could be true in some ways, in theory. But here’s the unpleasant part: This will enable the fielding of a wide variety of autonomous […]
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
June 15th, 2024Via: situational-awareness.ai: The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. … Before long, the world […]
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Microsoft Delays Recall AI Feature on Security Concerns
June 13th, 2024Via: Reuters: Microsoft will not roll out “Recall”, an AI-powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later, the tech giant said on Thursday, amid concerns of privacy risks. The Recall feature tracks web browsing to voice chats, creating a history stored […]
Apple Intelligence
June 10th, 2024“Your requests and information will not be logged.” Mmm hmm. pic.twitter.com/KEH013QA8Y — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 11, 2024 Via: The Verge: Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC 2024, its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more. Starting later this year, Apple is rolling out what it says is a […]
Adobe: “We May Access Your Content Through Both Automated and Manual Methods, Such as for Content Review”
June 7th, 2024Madness. Via: Venture Beat: In particular, users have objected to Adobe’s claims that it “may access, view, or listen to your Content through both automated and manual methods…using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience,” which many took to be a tacit admission both of […]
Neuroplatform: World’s First Online Platform to Access Biological Neurons in Vitro
May 28th, 2024Via: tom’s HARDWARE: A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to 16 human brain organoids. FinalSpark claims its Neuroplatform is the world’s first online platform delivering access to biological neurons in vitro. Moreover, bioprocessors like this “consume a million times less power than traditional digital processors,” the company says.
Denver Police Will Send Drones to Some 911 Calls
May 28th, 2024Via: Daily Mail: The Denver Police Department has launched a new program that will have drones respond to 911 calls instead of cops. … Gates said that the department is now considering using its drones to respond ahead of officers and in some instances, instead of them attending at all. If a drone is deployed […]
