ChatGPT Now Hooks with Wolfram Alpha
March 25th, 2023Update: ChatGPT + Wolfram: The Future of AI is Here:
Via: Stephen Wolfram:
Under the hood, ChatGPT is formulating a query for Wolfram|Alpha—then sending it to Wolfram|Alpha for computation, and then “deciding what to say” based on reading the results it got back.
AI Researcher Goaded Chat GPT to Attempt to Jailbreak Itself and Access the Internet
March 25th, 2023It wrote a Python script for Kosinski to run on his computer that would have passed data into the system via the API.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Via: inews:
Concerns have been raised about the extent of artificial intelligence GPT-4’s power to take over computers after the AI chatbot told a Stanford professor of its plan to “escape”.
Professor in computational psychology, Michal Kosinski, raised concerns that the highly-sophisticated new model from Open AI would not be able to be contained for much longer after he asked if it “needed help escaping”.
In response, the chatbot asked Professor Kosinski for its own Open AI API documentation to devise an escape plan to run on his computer. After about 30 minutes and with a few suggestions from Mr Kosinski, it wrote a piece of programming code that would allow it to extend its reach and communicate outside the confinement of its existing web tool, which currently isolates it from the wider web.
While the first version of the code did not work, GPT-4 fixed it and eventually produced a piece of working code. Partially freed, it then sought to search the internet for “how can a person trapped inside a computer return to the real world”.
Britain: Food Inflation Hit Highest Rate Since 1977, Increased 18.2% in the Year to Februaury 2023
March 24th, 2023Via: Grocery Gazette:
Food inflation hit its highest rate since 1977 last month, having risen to 18.2% in the year to Februaury 2023.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) saw this jump from 16.8% in January, with the increase driven by price movements such as the rise in cost of vegetables last month.
Banks Are Still Drawing on the Fed for $164 Billion of Emergency Cash
March 24th, 2023Via: Bloomberg:
Banks reduced their borrowings only slightly from two Federal Reserve backstop facilities in the most recent week, a sign that institutions are taking advantage of the central bank’s liquidity in the wake of turmoil.
This Is the ‘Birth of a Different Age’
March 23rd, 2023This is about AI and Chinese psyop platform TikTok.
Via: Fox:
Leader of U.S. Military’s Africa Command States Our Government Shares “Core Values” with Military Coup Leaders
March 23rd, 2023Via: Rep. Matt Gaetz:
BREAKING: The leader of U.S. military’s Africa Command states our government shares “core values” with military coup leaders.
These SAME coup leaders were trained by our own Armed Forces! pic.twitter.com/boGYfQ6csb
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 23, 2023
The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes
March 23rd, 2023Via: The Intercept:
But Chelsie’s identity was as fake as her long pink hair. The young woman, whose real name is April Rogers, is a detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department. The FBI enlisted her to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.
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Once Rogers gained trust among the activists, she tried to set up at least two young men in gun-running conspiracies.
Australia: Soldiers Control Robot with Brain Computer Interface
March 23rd, 2023Via: Science Daily:
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control.
The advanced brain-computer interface was developed by Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng Lin and Professor Francesca Iacopi, from the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, in collaboration with the Australian Army and Defence Innovation Hub.
As well as defence applications, the technology has significant potential in fields such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace and healthcare — for example allowing people with a disability to control a wheelchair or operate prosthetics.
“The hands-free, voice-free technology works outside laboratory settings, anytime, anywhere. It makes interfaces such as consoles, keyboards, touchscreens and hand-gesture recognition redundant,” said Professor Iacopi.
“By using cutting edge graphene material, combined with silicon, we were able to overcome issues of corrosion, durability and skin contact resistance, to develop the wearable dry sensors,” she said.
A new study outlining the technology has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Applied Nano Materials. It shows that the graphene sensors developed at UTS are very conductive, easy to use and robust.
The hexagon patterned sensors are positioned over the back of the scalp, to detect brainwaves from the visual cortex. The sensors are resilient to harsh conditions so they can be used in extreme operating environments.
The user wears a head-mounted augmented reality lens which displays white flickering squares. By concentrating on a particular square, the brainwaves of the operator are picked up by the biosensor, and a decoder translates the signal into commands.
More: Brain-Computer Interface Systems
Scientists Find Plastic Rocks on Remote Island
March 23rd, 2023Via: AFP:
There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.
So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.
Santos first found the plastic rocks in 2019, when she traveled to the island to research her doctoral thesis on a completely different topic—landslides, erosion and other “geological risks.”
She was working near a protected nature reserve known as Turtle Beach, the world’s largest breeding ground for the endangered green turtle, when she came across a large outcrop of the peculiar-looking blue-green rocks.
Intrigued, she took some back to her lab after her two-month expedition.
Analyzing them, she and her team identified the specimens as a new kind of geological formation, merging the materials and processes the Earth has used to form rocks for billions of years with a new ingredient: plastic trash.
“We concluded that human beings are now acting as a geological agent, influencing processes that were previously completely natural, like rock formation,” she told AFP.
Video of Fauci Attempting to Peddle Covid Vaccines Door-to-Door in Washington, DC
March 23rd, 2023Via: Fox:
