Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Guns for Robodogs
October 13th, 2021Via: Caitlin Johnstone: At an exhibit booth in the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and exhibition, Ghost Robotics (the military-friendly competitor to the better-known Boston Dynamics) proudly showed off a weapon that is designed to attach to its quadruped bots made by a company called SWORD Defense Systems. “The SWORD Defense Systems […]
Amazon’s Home Robot Can Follow You Around
September 28th, 2021Great! Via: USA Today: Amazon’s next big leap in hardware: a personal robot. On Tuesday, Amazon announced Astro, a home robot the company says can help owners keep up with tasks such as home monitoring or keeping in touch with family and friends.
Mossad Assassinated Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Using Remote-Controlled Machine Gun
September 19th, 2021Via: Business Insider: The “father” of Iran’s nuclear weapons program was at the top of Israel’s hit list for 14 years. On November 27 2020, after a failed attempt to kill him a decade earlier, the Mossad finally managed to assassinate Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Their weapon of choice? A remote-controlled machine gun that required no on-site […]
Biden’s Total Financial Surveillance
September 9th, 2021Via: Reason: Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS. That dystopia will become a reality if President Joe Biden gets his way. Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, […]
Robocop Is Here: Singapore Deploys Robots To Detect “Undesirable Behavior” Including Groups Of “More Than Five People”
September 6th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: The robot(s), called Xavier, will weave its way autonomously through the crowds to detect “undesirable social behaviors” including: Congregation of more than five people (in line with prevailing Safe Management Measures) Smoking in prohibited areas Illegal hawking Improperly parked bicycles within HDB Hub Motorized active mobility devices and motorcycles on footpaths Upon detecting […]
Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Build Humanoid Robot
August 20th, 2021This was very cringe inducing. Via: Cnet: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled a humanoid robot called the Tesla Bot that runs on the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. A functioning version of the robot didn’t make an appearance during Musk’s reveal, though a slightly bizarre dance by a performer […]
‘Tortured Phrases’ Give Away Fabricated Research Papers
August 8th, 2021Long ago, my wife had a student who wrote, “Auspicious lizard,” when she was actually trying to express, “Lucky dragon.” Anytime we come across tortured phrases we mention the famous, “Auspicious lizard.” Via: Nature: In April 2021, a series of strange phrases in journal articles piqued the interest of a group of computer scientists. The […]
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
August 2nd, 2021“Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha” And now… Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) use Starlink. I went looking for how they are using Starlink and couldn’t find much, except this gibberish on an Air Force press release. I bolded the parts that might relate to Starlink: In addition to […]
How Many Robots Does It Take To Run a Grocery Store?
July 6th, 2021How does it handle fruits and vegetables? Via: Tom Scott: Research Credit: BVegas
Elon Musk Admits Self-Driving Is Harder Than He Thought As Tesla Owners Troll Him Over Missed Deadlines
July 5th, 2021Via: Electrek: Elon Musk is admitting that self-driving is a harder problem than he originally thought as some Tesla owners are trolling him over yet another missed deadline for Tesla’s self-driving program. Musk has a long history of failed predictions regarding Tesla bringing a true self-driving system to market. It was first supposed to happen […]
