Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Small, Unmanned Spy Boat Washed Up on Scottish Island
October 8th, 2020Via: Forbes: Last week a small unmanned vessel washed up on the rocky Scottish Isle of Tiree, about a hundred miles from the U.K.’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane. It was identified as a Wave Glider, a type made by U.S. company Liquid Robotics, which is capable of traveling thousands of miles and is used […]
How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
October 3rd, 2020Via: The Gradient: Surveillance is becoming an increasingly controversial application given the rapid pace at which AI systems are being developed and deployed worldwide. While protestors marched through the city demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality, Minneapolis police trained surveillance tools to identify them. With just hours to sift through […]
The Rise of Skyborg: Air Force Betting on New Robotic Wingman
September 26th, 2020Via: National Defense Magazine: The “Skyborg” program is one of the service’s top science-and-technology priorities under the “Vanguard” initiative to deliver game-changing capabilities to its warfighters. The aim is to acquire relatively inexpensive, attritable unmanned aircraft that can leverage artificial intelligence and accompany manned fighter jets into battle. “I expect that we will do sorties […]
The Gordian Knot
September 22nd, 2020Via: Truthstream Media:
Robot Can Detect if People Are Wearing Masks
September 15th, 2020Via: Fox 5 NY: A human-like robot called Pepper can now detect whether people are wearing a mask to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Pepper uses cameras to scan the faces of up to 5 people in a group, simultaneously, in order to check if they are wearing a mask. During the interaction, Pepper […]
Tesla Delays Release of Important Autopilot Rewrite
September 14th, 2020“As for the robotaxis zipping from one burbclave to another… Not happening anytime soon.” —Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars Via: Electrek: At this point, we need a major asterisk next to the “1 million Robotaxi vehicles” claim. Related: Director of AI at Tesla on Self Driving Progress: We’re Hiring
The Air Force Just Tested “Robot Dogs” For Use In Base Security
September 8th, 2020Bonus: Another one for your Starlink Is Mainly for Rural Internet Access *wink* file folder. Via: The Warzone: They look like they were cast straight from an episode of Black Mirror, and eventually, their mission could be similar in some ways, but for now, robot dogs are stretching their legs in the big test exercise […]
Dozens More Mystery Drone Incursions Over U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Revealed
September 8th, 2020Via: Forbes: I recently described how a swarm of drones flew in a restricted area at Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant on two successive nights last September. A new cache of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) reveals how 24 nuclear sites suffered at least 57 drone incursions from 2015 to 2019 […]
Consumer Reports: Tesla’s Self Driving Features Are a Mess
September 6th, 2020Via: Consumer Reports: Most features within Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Capability suite worked inconsistently, including the Autopark self-parking system that has been around for several years. Sometimes it would recognize a parking space as suitable, and we’d park in it. But when we drove by the same space again later, it was as if the parking […]
Police Across Canada Are Using Predictive Policing Algorithms
September 1st, 2020Via: Vice: Police across Canada are increasingly using controversial algorithms to predict where crimes could occur, who might go missing, and to help them determine where they should patrol, despite fundamental human rights concerns, a new report has found. To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada is the result […]
