Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
U.S. Officials Order Nvidia to Halt Sales of Top AI Chips to China
September 1st, 2022Via: Reuters: Chip designer Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Wednesday that U.S. officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms’ ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia’s business in the country. The announcement signals a […]
Tesla “Full Self Driving” Generally Performs Well, Occasionally Tries to Kill You
August 23rd, 2022Via: Electrek: Over the 13-minute and 8-mile test, we only had a single driver intervention (12:56), but it obviously was a significant one. Tesla FSD Beta was clearly taking the sharp turn too fast, and it was about to throw us down the cliff on the side of the road. I applied the brakes as […]
World Economic Forum Wants To Use AI To Automatically Censor Speech On The Internet
August 12th, 2022Via: Daily Caller: The World Economic Forum (WEF) proposed a new way of censoring online content that requires a small group of experts to train artificial intelligence on identifying “misinformation” and abusive content. The WEF published an article Wednesday outlining a plan to overcome frequent instances of “child abuse, extremism, disinformation, hate speech and fraud” […]
Reverse-Engineering Insect Brains to Make Robots
August 12th, 2022Via: EETimes: British startup Opteran, a spin–out of the University of Sheffield, has a completely different view of neuromorphic engineering compared to most of the industry. The company has reverse–engineered insect brains to derive new algorithms for collision avoidance and navigation that can be used in robotics. Opteran calls its new approach to AI “natural […]
Amazon Bought iRobot to See Inside Your Home
August 5th, 2022Via: The Verge: When I spoke to iRobot’s Colin Angle earlier this summer, he said iRobot OS — the latest software operating system for its robot vacuums and mops — would provide its household bots with a deeper understanding of your home and your habits. This takes on a whole new meaning with the news […]
Asking an AI to Show the Last Selfie Ever Taken
July 29th, 2022@robotoverloards Asking an Ai to show the last selfie ever taken #creepy#scary#ai#midjourney#dalle2 #foryoupage ? It's Just a Burning Memory – The Caretaker Via: The Sun: A TIKTOK account dedicated to asking artificial intelligence disturbing questions revealed what the DALL-E AI thinks the last selfie on Earth would look like.
DALL·E 2 Explained
July 20th, 2022Via: OpenAI: DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
China Uses AI to ‘Improve’ Courts, Correcting Perceived Human Errors in a Verdict
July 14th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: China is using artificial intelligence to ‘improve’ its court system by recommending laws, drafting documents and alerting ‘perceived human errors’ in rulings. Judges must now consult the AI on every case by law, Beijing’s Supreme Court said in an update on the system published this week, and if they go against its […]
Alexa Upgrade Lets Dead Family Speak to You by “Learning Voice in a Minute”
June 23rd, 2022An hour ago, I was reading Starfall, by Drew Harrison. Part of the plot includes bribery of a corporate executive with AI generated material. So, get busy and, make the memories last… Via: The Sun: The goal, said Amazon’s senior vice president, Rohit Prasad, is to ‘make the memories last’ after ‘so many of us […]
Google Engineer Placed on Leave After Claiming an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Had Become Sentient
June 12th, 2022Via: Business Insider: An engineer at Google said he was placed on leave Monday after claiming an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient. Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post he began chatting with the interface LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, last fall as part of his job at Google’s Responsible AI organization. … […]
