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Lugh OP Mod , in Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on a PC
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A great many people will hate this, but they'll do it anyway. I guess its the logical conclusion of having your own personal AI.

Fiivemacs ,

How is this at all like having your own AI..

If anything you don't even have your own computer anymore if you allow crap like this

Lugh OP Mod ,
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How is this at all like having your own AI…

There's a certain logic to this. The more useful a personal AI is, the more it knows about your activities, so as to master helping you do them better. I'm not saying I like this new Microsoft feature, but the underlying logic is not exclusive to them - it will be everywhere else in the world too eventually as AI grows.

Fiivemacs ,

Infects, not grows. It's infecting everything right now.

Dju ,

Yeah, I wouldn't call it very personal when you know that Microsoft will be jerking off to all your data

Diplomjodler3 ,

Which is neither your own nor personal.

pop , in Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief

Leader of the program says their products are awesome. News at 9.

CameronDev ,

They didnt even say awesome, just even. So presumably they cherry picked the test and still only got even...

Diplomjodler3 , (edited )

Being on the level of a senior pilot is absolutely awesome. Also, this is not really relevant in practice. An AI controlled jet will be able to cope with much higher g loads than a human controlled one. That alone will give it an unsurmountable advantage even if the human pilot might theoretically be better. On top of that, dogfighting is a thing of the past anyway. Future aerial engagements will be decided by who fires off their missile first. Again, the AI will always be better at that.

CameronDev ,

Yeah, i mean, that kinda proves my point, the AI has some major physical advantages, but still only broke even? Seems like its very early days.

I have heard the "dog fighting is a thing of the past" for decades at this point, they still keep building new fighters with guns. Im not yet convinced its true. With stealth and electronic warfare being more and more common, perhaps there will be a comeback?

But I am no expert, i just like airshows :)

Diplomjodler3 ,

In this particular case the AI didn't have an advantage because the plane was designed with a human pilot in mind and only the controls were changed. The difference will come when systems are designed without pilots in the first place. Also, the current war in Ukraine has shown that dogfights are basically a thing of the past.

CameronDev , (edited )

The F16 can out fly a pilot though right? It can pull 9g which will eventually overwhelm the pilot? Still has the reaction speed benefits though.

Edit: i just remembered there is still a pilot onboard, so it probably isnt allowed to just pull 9g turns constantly.

Has there been much fighter to fighter combat in Ukraine? I thought it was mostly drones and anti-air lately. Havent really been following it much.

JoMiran , in Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
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Anticorp , in Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on a PC

keeps all data stored locally, never shared with the cloud or Microsoft

This is probably true, but any meaningful marketing data derived from the local data will almost certainly be sent to Microsoft.

applepie , in AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed

The only reason for universal basic income is because we have all been slaved and surplus value of our labour was stolen by owner class.

Now they are going to be giving uus back the money that we earned with strings attached for social control purposes.

krnl386 , in Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later
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I’d take “works perfectly” with a grain of salt. “Doesn’t die and continues to grow after thawing” is more accurate, IMHO.

CanadaPlus ,

Also, it's China, so higher than normal chance they made it the fuck up. Research ethics is a bit of a problem in the region.

That being said, it's not a surprising result. Usually small pieces of tissue can be frozen without problem.

antidote101 , in Researchers are making progress on producing cows from just stem cells, with no eggs or sperm involved. Some people are wondering if the same tech might one day work with humans.

New ipod ad just dropped.

littlebluespark ,
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Oh, is that how they make new customers? That tracks.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
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Holy Hell!

Koof_on_the_Roof , in Faces made of living skin make robots smile - BBC News

When you have literally created something out of a horror movie it’s time to stop and reassess your choices.

lettruthout , in This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77

A solution in search of a problem.

KillingAndKindess ,
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And one its proved to be one that they thoroughly determined uneconomical to solve...

threelonmusketeers , in Warp Drive Breakthrough Could Enable Constant-Velocity Subluminal Travel, Physics Team Says

"Could"

Until a working prototype is built, I will be treating the field of warp drives (even sublight warp) with a healthy dose of skepticism. Glad people are working on it though.

peterj74 ,

It's not faster than light speed. So not so sci-fi. But yes, with the current tehnology is not possible to make. BUT the theory checks out. Maybe in 50 years.

CanadaPlus ,

More than that. Gravity is weak; gravity-based technologies inevitably need insane amounts of material to work. This particular metric also involves shedding mass, y'know, like a rocket would have anyway.

Wasn't this story posted already here? I don't want to rehash if I don't have to.

MaximilianKohler , in OpenAI and Reddit Partnership

Oh my god, this is horrible news. Reddit is a horrible website and only getting worse. OpenAI promoting them and using their garbage content to train their AI systems is alarming. This is so dystopian.

And of course it always leads back to money:

Sam Altman is a shareholder in Reddit

Espiritdescali OP Mod , (edited )
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I left reddit after the API nonsense (which was to stop AI companies scraping their content), and I could see them selling their content for AI (or creating their own AI) coming a mile off. It's only ever about money

sabreW4K3 , in China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead. The same technologies are being used by Chinese people to make replicas of themselves, their children, and famous public figures.
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That's not creepy

wahming Mod ,

Depending on how it's implemented, it might very well be one of the non-creepy uses. As long as it isn't taken to extremes, being able to have a chance to say goodbye to your loved one could be therapeutic. Or to see them once a year during the Ghost Festival to help keep their memory alive.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Duamerthrax ,
sabreW4K3 ,
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I'd never seen that. Holy fuck!

electric_nan ,

It does have high creepy potential (all deepfakes do), but I can understand the appeal. Make sure you take some nice videos of the people you love, and let them take some of you. Death doesn't always come with a warning, and you don't want to be wishing you had some recordings.

Gennadios , (edited ) in DeSantis signs bill banning lab-grown meat

Lab grown meat, as it is right now has a massive scalability problem which makes it impossible to produce it in industrial quantities

That said, the fact that this was signed into law means that there were multiple people in business and politics that decided to dedicate their time towards legislating a complete non issue. great Job!

awwwyissss ,

The silver lining to me is that the professional assholes who run the meat industry consider lab grown meat viable enough to be a threat.

Nimrod ,

This is my take as well.

I hope this news acts as a free advertisement for lab grown meat. Maybe conservatives will buy cultured chicken breast and shoot them with ARs for YouTube content?

Www.goodmeat.co

Auzy , in Rooftop solar is being adopted so quickly in South Africa it has eliminated the country's previous problem with blackouts from its main electricity grid.

That's not possible. The keyboard warriors were telling us that solar makes the grid unstable 5 years ago. And they obviously know what they are talking about

Maybe someone should go fetch them from their current anti-EV rants to educate us why solar is bad /s

RobotToaster , in Faces made of living skin make robots smile - BBC News
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Only the face? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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