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Today in "the fall of western civilization"
- š¤” Amazon brings Alexa to hospitals and senior living centers (Press release).
- š¤” Cartoonist Michael Leunig axed over controversial vaccine cartoon
- š¤” EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen - sources
- š¤” GCHQ award spy agencies cloud contract to AWS
- š¤” Xi Jinping -- Committed to advancing UN cause for better world.
- š¤” Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann resigns from office on 31 December 2021
- š¤” Police raid homes, businesses across Germany, Italy, Bulgaria in Italian mafia probe
- š¤” KKR Founders Kravis and Roberts Step Down as Co-CEOs.Ā
š¤” Orthodox Patriarch Hospitalized at Start of 12-day US Visit
#Technology #Health #ML #Augmentation #Politics #Business #Culture #Cryptocracy
- š¤” Amazon brings Alexa to hospitals and senior living centers (Press release).
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Escher Circuits: Using Vision to Perform Computation
In 2008, Mark Changizi, a Sloan-Swartz Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience at Caltech, noted that the eye can make sense of complex relationships that often mystify the brain:Ā "Our everyday visual perceptions rely upon unfathomably complex computations carried out by tens of billions of neurons across over half our cortex. In spite of this, it does not āfeelā like work to see. Our cognitive powers are, in stark contrast, āslow and painful,ā and we have great trouble with embarrassingly simple logic tasks."
Might it be possible to harness our visual computational powers for other tasks, perhaps for tasks cognition finds difficult? In other words, could we trick the eye into performing computation? Changizi proposed the Escher Circuit, "a special kind of image that amounts to 'visual software' our 'visual hardware' computes" merely through perception.
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AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules (BBC)
Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled. Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator. At its core, the argument is about whether a law written for human inventors can be applied to machines. The appeal court ruled against Stephen Thaler, creator of a system called Dabus, who took a case against the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which refused patents to his AI.
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The State of Human-Centredness in AI and automation - by @BrianSJ3
"Conclusions: The Western capitalist hegemony is deeply antithetical to human-centredness (remember that the subtitle of 'Small is Beautiful' was 'Economics as if people mattered' - hardly the Amazon corporate handbook), from the level of a corporate project through to societal effects. Competent practitioners with good stakeholder support can show what can be done, but Human Centred Design will remain a niche activity. If human-centredness is to make any impact at all, then it is time for some completely fresh approaches. Fortunately, the time is ripe for just such fresh approaches but the scale of the opportunity is somewhat daunting."
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A Recipe For Arbitrary Text Style Transfer with Large Language Models
Uses 137B LMs on zero-shot text style transfer and gets promising results w/ "augmented zero-shot learning". Even works on prompts like āmake this melodramaticā or āinsert a metaphor.ā
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The new Roomba uses AI to avoid smearing dog poop all over your house. āBut in order to make this possible, the company first had to create a diverse dataset of poop.ā (quote source)
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Sensory Substitution
āThe brain is able to use information coming from the skin as if it were coming from the eyes. We donāt see with the eyes or hear with the ears, these are just the receptors, seeing and hearing in fact goes on in the brain.ā - Paul Bach-y-Rita, pioneer of sensory substitution.
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"Technological Solutionism is THE main challenge people and the planet face all the time we are still here" - BrianSJ3Ā (Related Research: "Challenging āResistance to Change")
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AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back
The Hollywood actor lost his natural voice after a surgery for throat cancer in 2015, shattering his career and permanently altering the way he communicates. That is, until late last year when Sonantic, a U.K.-based software firm that clones voices for actors and studios, helped Kilmer to speak again. A wave of start-ups are deploying artificially intelligent voice-cloning services for digital assistants, video games and movie studios. The generated voices have gotten more realistic in the age of deepfakes and sound deceptively real.
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": The 2021 "Global Emerging Technology Summit" of the "The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence" (NSCA) (8h Video)
#Comment: This gathering of western military, business and political "leaders" (50%+ spooks) is in essence a total shit-show of the very worst kind. "Diverse" participants -Ā from sleazy used car salesmen, loony dr.strangeloves, to soulless think-tankers and political puppets - are discussing things like A.I, info-warfare and killer robot efforts, all in the name of preserving the "rules based international order" and "democracy" (what ever that means). Fantastic comedy!
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"Automation is an addiction. Stay in music school kids, play your instruments. Donāt do AI." - Quote from the new generative music album from Dadabots.
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MoD report urges embrace of human augmentation to fully exploit drones & AI for warfighting
The MoDās internal think-tank, the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) along with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning (BODP) has published a disturbing new report urging greater investigation of ā and investment in ā human augmentation for military purposes. The following is a brief summary of the 100+ page document with short comment at the end. āHuman Augmentation ā The Dawn of a New Paradigmā (PDF) argues that humans are the āweakest linkā in modern warfare, and that there is a need to exploit scientific advances to improve human capabilities.
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Untold History of AI: The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence - J.C.R. Lickliderās proposals for āman-machine symbiosisā led to the invention of the Internet
"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production." - Robert Anton Wilson
#Technology #Augmentation #Robot #ML #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
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The 8 Senses
- Visual (sight)
- Auditory (hearing)
- Olfactory (smell)
- Gustatory (taste)
- Tactile (touch)
- Vestibular (balance and movement)
- Proprioceptive (muscles and joints)
- Interoception ( Internal body sensations)
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Get your animal microchipped today! It is mandatory.
#FFHCI #Military #Biotech #ML #Augmentation #Biology #PoliticsĀ
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New soba noodle-making robot at Japan train station eatery can cook 150 servings an hour
A two-armed robot is helping to prepare soba noodles at an eatery at JR Kaihimmakuhari Station in this city's Mihama Ward, capably boiling the noodles in a strainer, rinsing them and then dipping them in iced water. The Sobaichi Perie Kaihimmakuhari eatery implemented a collaborative cooking system, with the robot cooking the food and employees adding the dipping sauce or soup and toppings. It is apparently the first time for the cooking robot to be introduced in an actual restaurant setting. Connected Robotics commented, "Not only can it tackle the shortage of human resources, it can also cook without any human contact and is therefore useful in reducing the risk of coronavirus infections." JR East Foods, meanwhile, explained, "We aim to implement it (the robot) at 30 stores by the end of fiscal 2025."
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A New Robot Dealer Service Makes Buying Drugs Easier Than Ever
"Televend is an automated digital retail system used to sell illegal drugs on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. The online stores it facilitates are staffed and operated, 24 hours a day, by a clever string of ones and zeros. Or, if you like, robots."
