Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
U.S. Marines Defeat DARPA Robot by Hiding Under a Cardboard Box
January 25th, 2023Via: Extreme Tech: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested some of its resources into a robot that’s been trained—likely among other things—to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse. … In the excerpt, Scharre describes a week during which DARPA calibrated its robot’s human […]
ChatGPT Can Pass U.S. Medical Licensing Exam and the Bar, Received B Grade on Wharton MBA Paper
January 23rd, 2023I was aware of Minecraft from around 2010. I didn’t play it, but I thought that it was an interesting… Novelty. In 2014, Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Minecraft. Woh. Today, most people, even old, non-technical people, have heard of Minecraft. But if you don’t know what Minecraft is, your children and/or your grandchildren […]
AI-Powered Lawyer Will Represent Defendant in Court
January 10th, 2023Via: CBS: A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight a traffic ticket in court next month. Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells […]
Copy-Pasting ChatGPT Outputs Into MidJourney
December 8th, 2022OK so @OpenAI's new #ChatGPT can basically just generate #AIart prompts. I asked a one-line question, and typed the answers verbatim straight into MidJourney and boom. Times are getting weird…? pic.twitter.com/sYwdscUxxf — Guy Parsons (@GuyP) November 30, 2022
ChatGPT Passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A Free Response Section
December 4th, 2022Via: Gaelan- Github: For fun, I had ChatGPT take the free response section of the 2022 AP Computer Science A exam. (The exam also has a multiple-choice section, but the College Board doesn’t publish this.) It scored 32/36.
San Francisco Police Proposal: Robots Offer, “Deadly Force Option”
November 23rd, 2022Via: Mission Local: Peskin, chair of the committee, initially attempted to limit the SFPD’s authority over the department’s robots by inserting the sentence, “Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person.” The following week, the police struck out his suggestion with a thick red line. It was replaced by language […]
New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI
November 19th, 2022Via: Quanta Magazine: One solution, called neuromorphic computing, takes inspiration from biological brains to create energy-efficient designs. Unfortunately, while these chips can outpace digital computers in conserving energy, they’ve lacked the computational power needed to run a sizable deep neural network. That’s made them easy for AI researchers to overlook. That finally changed in August, […]
Ukraine Unleashes Mass Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack On Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Headquarters
November 2nd, 2022Via: The Warzone: The largest city in Crimea and the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet woke up to heavy explosions and anti-aircraft fire during an attack Russian officials say included aerial drones and especially unmanned surface vessels (USV), both of which were ‘suicide’ or ‘kamikaze’ types mean to explode when they arrive at their […]
Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns
October 17th, 2022Via: The Intercept: In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whose consequences could shape the future of American policing: Should cops be able to kill people with shotgun-armed robots? The back-and-forth between the Oakland Police Department and a civilian oversight body concluded with […]
Swarmed Navy Destroyer Had Its Bridge Illuminated By Mysterious Drones
October 15th, 2022Via: The Warzone: PHM [USS Paul Hamilton] observed four UASs with a CPA [closest point of approach] approximately 200 yds off the bow, port and starboard beams. The UASs had an on station time of approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. The first UAS was spotted by lookouts at 0240L. observed with a single, solid […]
