Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Army Set To Buy Computerized Rifle Sights For Shooting Down Drones
October 7th, 2022Via: The Warzone: The U.S. Army has purchased SMASH 2000L computerized optical sight systems manufactured by the Israeli defense firm Smart Shooter. The company is highlighting the system’s counter-drone role, and both the Army and the U.S. Marine Corps have already acquired a limited number of older SMASH 2000 variants for this very purpose. SMASH […]
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
October 6th, 2022Cryptogon 2019: Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars: In short, I asked him: Is this going to work? No. He’s confident that it’s not going to work under the current paradigm. Via: Bloomberg: “You’d be hard-pressed to find another industry that’s invested so many dollars in R&D and that has delivered so […]
China Pairs Armed Robot Dogs With Drones That Can Drop Them Anywhere
October 6th, 2022Via: The Warzone: Footage of a Chinese-made drone carrying a ‘robot dog’ that is armed with a machine gun has started to make its rounds on social media, and it looks like it was taken straight out of a dystopian war movie. It isn’t immediately clear if the video was recorded as part of a […]
Tesla AI Day 2022
September 30th, 2022“Within the next few months… or years.” Via: Tesla:
Tesla To Unveil “Optimus” Robot At Upcoming September 30th AI Event
September 22nd, 2022Might be comedy gold. Via: ZeroHedge: Call us not quite surprised that Elon Musk has amassed his fair share of skeptics over the last few years. And these skeptics are likely going to be in full force now that Tesla is getting ready to unveil its “Optimus” robot. With a plan to “deploy thousands of […]
Food Delivery Robot Rolls Through LA Crime Scene as Confused Cops Look On
September 16th, 2022A food delivery robot forces it’s way across a police crime scene. pic.twitter.com/T5DaET5Q5b — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) September 13, 2022 Via: USA Today: When you’ve got a job to do, you’ve got a job to. At least that’s the work ethic of a food delivery robot named Connie, whose indifferent actions went viral […]
U.S. Army Conducts ‘Drone Swarm’ Exercise With Armed Quadcopters
September 15th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: At sunrise this morning a swarm of 40 quadcopters all equipped with cameras, MILES, and lethal munition capable launched in advance of 11th ACR’s attack on a prepared defense by 1AD. Drones will be as important in the first battle of the next war as artillery is today. pic.twitter.com/zPQ2I8SoqN — NTC Lead 6 […]
Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity
September 15th, 2022Via: Vice: The paper envisions life on Earth turning into a zero-sum game between humanity, with its needs to grow food and keep the lights on, and the super-advanced machine, which would try and harness all available resources to secure its reward and protect against our escalating attempts to stop it. “Losing this game would […]
Truly Autonomous Cars May Be Impossible Without Helpful Human Touch
September 12th, 2022Via: Reuters: Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble. … Imperium Drive’s Kaveh said as more self-driving cars – which are more predictable than […]
An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
September 3rd, 2022I played with Midjourney and watched the outputs generated from other users’ prompts. The results ranged from *meh* to breathtaking. It’s extremely weird and unsettling to consider how advanced this technology is already, and where it’s going to be in few years. It’s also astonishing. Via: Vice: A man came in first at the Colorado […]
