Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
ThirdAI Training of Billion-Parameter Neural Networks on Commodity CPUs
August 30th, 2023Via: AnyScale: Today, all widely-used deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, require access to a plethora of specialized hardware accelerators, such as GPUs or TPUs, to train large neural networks in a feasible amount of time. However, these specialized accelerators are extremely costly (roughly 3-10x more expensive than commodity CPUs in the cloud). […]
AI Humanoid Pilot to Fly Existing Aircraft [???]
August 26th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: South Korean researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) developed “Pibot,” a life-sized humanoid robot that can fly planes and understand complex flight controls. Flight news website Airways Magazine explains more about Pibot’s capabilities: As the world continues to adapt to the growing trend of Artificial Intelligence (AI), South […]
Walmart Drones To Serve 60,000 Dallas Homes
August 24th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Walmart announced its drone delivery service at two Dallas, Texas, stores is about to take flight in the coming months and serve upwards of 60,000 homes. The mega-retailer, with thousands of stores nationwide, hopes to expand its drone delivery network, currently operating in 36 stores in seven states, as a move to reduce […]
San Francisco’s North Beach Streets Briefly Clogged with Malfunctioning Robotaxis
August 14th, 2023I love it. Via: Los Angeles Times: One day after California green-lighted a massive expansion of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, the implications became clear. At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All […]
Zoom Can Use Customer-Generated Content to Train AI Models
August 7th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Zoom has added a clause to its Terms-of-Service (TOS) which allows the video conferencing company to use customer-generated content for any purpose they see fit, including to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, with no opt-out.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Launches ‘WorldCoin’ Token To Distinguish Humans From Bots
July 24th, 2023I like Melissa’s response to this: Waiting for the coin with the nipple scan, personally. — Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) July 24, 2023 Via: ZeroHedge: Last week we presciently discussed the somewhat dystopian outlook for an iris-scanning ‘World ID’ project to identify every human online: “Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will […]
Japan To Deploy Pre-Crime Style “Behavior Detection” Technology
July 19th, 2023Via: Reclaim the Net: The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace globally. A 2019 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed that 52 out of the 176 nations surveyed were incorporating AI tools into their policing strategies, Nikkei Asia reported. … The National Police Agency plans to carry out tests […]
Apple Experimenting With ‘Apple GPT’ AI Tool
July 19th, 2023One of my children figured out a few cunning tricks to work around his time limits on his PC running Windows 10. I saw what he was doing and thought that I could solve it with some automation. In short, I needed a script to log just him out on workstation lock; completely terminate the […]
“This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal”
July 18th, 2023Via: Forbes: Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records. … “You’ve seen the systems totally metastasize to the point that the capabilities of a local police department would really shock most people.” … “The scale of this kind of surveillance is […]
Elon Musk’s New xAI Company Launches to ‘Understand the True Nature of the Universe’
July 12th, 2023Besides naming some employees, there isn’t much more information at this time. Via: The Verge: xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation. “The goal of xAI […]
