Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
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. … […]
“Swarms of Electric Farming Robots”
June 9th, 2022Via: Electrek: Agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO is continuing its technical partnership with Apex.AI in order to use its Apex.OS software development kit to add autonomous capabilities to its farming robot concept. The battery-powered Xaver farming robots were developed by AGCO brand Fendt and can autonomously plant seeds on farms 24 hours a day.
Tesla Going Back to Radar for Self Driving System
June 8th, 2022Via: Electrek: Tesla has filed to use a new radar in its electric vehicles, and everyone is confused since Elon Musk has made it clear that Tesla plans to achieve self-driving with camera-based vision only. After years of using a suite of sensors that included both cameras and a radar, Tesla announced a transition to […]
Elon Musk Says Tesla May Have a Working Humanoid Robot Prototype by September 30
June 5th, 2022Remember the one about the AI robotaxis taking to the roads in 2020? And now… Via: Electrek: Elon Musk announced that Tesla might have a working prototype of Tesla Bot, also known as Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, by September 30, the end of the third quarter of 2022.
OpenAI’s GPT-3 and Other Neural Nets Can Now Write Original Prose with Mind-Boggling Fluency
May 29th, 2022Via: New York Times Magazine: So far, the experiments with large language models have been mostly that: experiments probing the model for signs of true intelligence, exploring its creative uses, exposing its biases. But the ultimate commercial potential is enormous. If the existing trajectory continues, software like GPT-3 could revolutionize how we search for information […]
MIT, Harvard Scientists Find AI Can Recognize Race from X-Rays – and Nobody Knows How
May 17th, 2022Via: Boston Globe: A doctor can’t tell if somebody is Black, Asian, or white, just by looking at their X-rays. But a computer can, according to a surprising new paper by an international team of scientists, including researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. The study found that an artificial intelligence […]
The Goal of the Reset
March 30th, 2022Via: Richard Dolan:
AI Suggested 40,000 New Possible Chemical Weapons in Just Six Hours
March 19th, 2022Via: The Verge: It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference. All the researchers had to do […]
U.S. Copyright Office Refuses to Register AI-Generated Work, “Human Authorship Is a Prerequisite to Copyright Protection”
March 16th, 2022Via: The IPKat: Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? On Valentine’s Day, the US Copyright Office (Review Board) answered this question with a heartbreaking ‘no’, holding that “copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind”” and consequently […]
A Black Hawk Helicopter Flew for the First Time Without Pilots
February 11th, 2022Via: Popular Science: February has already been a big month for autonomous flight. For the first time, this past Saturday, and then again on Monday, a specially equipped Black Hawk helicopter flew without a single human on board. The computer-piloted aircraft was being tested as part of a DARPA program called Alias, and the tests […]
