artificial intelligence
The future of artificial intelligence.
In raptures about raptors policing our streets
Let’s take a short trip into the future. The year is 2045 and the CIA-seeded Moreau-esque brainchild of tech billionaires Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and Anduril Industries, and Ben Lamm, founder of Colossal Biosciences, announces the next generation in dystopian community policing... Waraptor.
By Steve Harrison3 days ago in Futurism
Latvia backs 12 defence tech startups to accelerate military innovation
Latvia is taking a significant step towards strengthening its defence technology sector by selecting 12 startups for its first national defence pre-acceleration programme, DIAL (Defence Innovation Accelerator for Latvia).
By Susan Fourtané 10 days ago in Futurism
Twenty messy documents, one command, and the front page I actually wanted
Twenty documents went into a folder. One command later, twenty clean Markdown files and a single index page came out, in 1.29 seconds on my laptop. That's the headline, and the bit I'm proudest of.
By Gautam Atmakuri13 days ago in Futurism
A clay kiwi, a robot in a tomato hat, and why take one won
I made a sleepy kiwi, a proud robot and a cheeky cat out of clay last month, and I never touched any clay. Not a crumb of it. The fingerprints you can see on them are fake too, which is a strange sentence to type on a Sunday. I also made a short video of this, episode one of a Sunday series I call Creative AI Tests. This is the written version, with the bits that didn't fit. Three scenes, all in a handmade stop-motion style. A kiwi with its beak in a coffee mug, just before the toaster goes off. A robot holding up its very first sandwich, proud as anything, with the tomato about to slide out. And a cat nose to nose with a ladybird on a laptop. A bug in the code, basically. It took two steps. Step one is the picture. You type a short line, something like "a clay kiwi asleep in its coffee". The model has learnt from loads of captioned images what clay and coffee mugs look like, so it makes a brand new picture to match. Fair warning: the first picture is rarely the keeper. I made a few for each scene and picked the best. Step two is the video. You hand the model that picture with another short line, like "the toast pops and the kiwi wakes up". The picture becomes frame one, so the kiwi stays the same kiwi, and the model works out the movement. Even the sound, and a line of dialogue. The kiwi mumbles "Five more minutes." The robot announces "Nailed it!" The cat goes with "Not today" and then, after things go sideways, "I meant to do that." (I'm not sharing my full prompts. They're less magic than you'd hope, and I like keeping a bit of mystery.)
By Gautam Atmakuri14 days ago in Futurism
What's hot in AI: 28 to 30 Oct
Midweek had one loud theme. One camp spent it plugging every app into every other app. The other camp put a bouncer on its smartest model and gave security the guest list. If you'd rather watch than read, the latest Vibe News episode is on YouTube ( https://youtu.be/VzJsORxG7Xk ).
By Gautam Atmakuri15 days ago in Futurism
Write And Chill
I imagine if my iPhone stopped working, or pretty much everything froze, like the world was on pause, with no warning, no breaking news announcement, no emergency broadcast telling people to prepare themselves. It was just another ordinary morning. People woke up, reached for their phones, checked their notifications, scrolled through social media, responded to messages, and continued with their daily routines. No calls. No text messages. No social media. No internet. No GPS. Nothing.
By Gladys W. Muturi15 days ago in Futurism
65th Super Bowl
It was Super Bowl LXV , and the stadium was jam-packed. The Cleveland Browns were playing the Jacksonville Jaguars. People had flown in from everywhere to see these 2 teams. People frantically swiped on their cell screens, called friends, and locked in their final bet.
By Andrea Corwin 16 days ago in Futurism
