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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Here comes the age of the synthetic salesperson with an AI personality tailored to the viewer that could sell freezers to Eskimos and would be so attractive that they will have fans. It could convince you of anything, they could even model Trump to gather up all the miscreants in society for political power, if these morons vote for Trump, they will vote for a robot, the real useful idiot he is based on never appears in public, just signs papers.

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Consumers as likely to buy products advertised by AI-influencer models as those advertised by humans, research says

Consumers are as likely to buy products advertised online by AI-created models as by humans, new research says.
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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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AI is like any other technology, it can be used for good or bad, but when AI is bad it has the future potential to be fatally bad to humanity as a species. The temptation is in the good and not all high-tech countries think the same way, nor do all the AI experts. However, if this guy and a lot of other experts are rattled, it is best to pay attention, but there might not be much we can do about it since it will be so damn useful and above all else profitable and we live in a global tech world, not an exclusively American one.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698418171483427164
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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DIY-HP-LED said:
AI is like any other technology, it can be used for good or bad, but when AI is bad it has the future potential to be fatally bad to humanity as a species. The temptation is in the good and not all high-tech countries think the same way, nor do all the AI experts. However, if this guy and a lot of other experts are rattled, it is best to pay attention, but there might not be much we can do about it since it will be so damn useful and above all else profitable and we live in a global tech world, not an exclusively American one.

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cannabineer

cannabineer

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Around 9:13 local I anticipate watching another brand-new Starlink dot dash burp.

(edit) saw it come up at 9:14, but it entered shadow about 20 degrees up. Only saw one burp.

Should get a good shot at seeing it unfurled tomorrow.
 
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CANON_Grow

CANON_Grow

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DIY-HP-LED said:
AI is like any other technology, it can be used for good or bad, but when AI is bad it has the future potential to be fatally bad to humanity as a species. The temptation is in the good and not all high-tech countries think the same way, nor do all the AI experts. However, if this guy and a lot of other experts are rattled, it is best to pay attention, but there might not be much we can do about it since it will be so damn useful and above all else profitable and we live in a global tech world, not an exclusively American one.

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Not sure why we should pay much attention to what he and others of that ilk have to say about it now. He was either ignorant to the danger his entire career(so why listen to someone so wrong for so long?), or he wasn't but continued for selfish reasons(so why trust them now?). Once Elon came out saying there should be a pause on AI research, my thought was it's best to get as much of it out to open source as possible, as fast as possible. Turns out that Elon and those like him didn't really want to pause development of AI, they just wanted a chance to catch up for their own personal gain.

The development of the internet had the same concerns and it can/has been used for nefarious purposes, but the world is better off with everyone having access to it. Everyone should have a say in the ethical standards that need to be set in the use of AI.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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CANON_Grow said:
Not sure why we should pay much attention to what he and others of that ilk have to say about it now. He was either ignorant to the danger his entire career(so why listen to someone so wrong for so long?), or he wasn't but continued for selfish reasons(so why trust them now?). Once Elon came out saying there should be a pause on AI research, my thought was it's best to get as much of it out to open source as possible, as fast as possible. Turns out that Elon and those like him didn't really want to pause development of AI, they just wanted a chance to catch up for their own personal gain.

The development of the internet had the same concerns and it can/has been used for nefarious purposes, but the world is better off with everyone having access to it. Everyone should have a say in the ethical standards that need to be set in the use of AI.
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He apparently had an epiphany when the monster got away! The level of concern in the community of experts causes me concern, since I don't know much about AI or where it is going. I can see how something like that playing the stock market could get rich quick or managing a large corporation or bank. Who knows where it will lead, but one thing is for sure, we will have little control over it because the tech is rapidly going global and values vary. If it is useful and profitable it will be used, perhaps to design a super battery for EVs. Like all other advanced technology, the rich can afford it and leverage it to get even richer, technology tends to concentrate wealth.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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When they develop human like hands with tactile sense, then that will be a milestone and the company that specialized in hands would make a lot of money hands down! The one who specialized in robobrains would do well too. Will 20 or 30 years see the end of work for most people? I mean with these guys doing all the heavy lifting, cleaning and serving, and with AI doing all the thinking, we should live like kings, not be warehoused by billionaires.

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Robots for household chores less than 10 years away: expert

The humanoid machine can undertake all kinds of general-purpose tasks.
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Robots for household chores less than 10 years away: expert
The humanoid machine can undertake all kinds of general-purpose tasks.

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A new report by the BBC is quoting Geordie Rose, the chief executive of Sanctuary AI, a firm engineering a robot for household chores and general-purpose tasks, and the expert has stated that the development is less than 10 years away.

Ten years: an eternity
"Ten years at the pace the technology is moving now is an eternity. You know, every month, there's new developments in the AI world that are like fundamental change," Rose told the news outlet.

IE has already reported on Sanctuary AI’s household robot in May of this year. It’s called Phoenix and is five feet seven inches (5"7') and 155 pounds (70 kg).

Its goal is to do all the chores and tasks that humans find so burdensome. And it’s not just for homes. In a trial project undertaken in March of 2023, the robot worked a retail store in Vancouver, where it undertook 110 retail-related tasks such as picking and packaging merchandise, labeling, tagging, folding, and even cleaning up the store.

It even managed to use plastic bags to store clothes, a task Rose told the BBC was a true testament to how advanced the robot is...
 
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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DIY-HP-LED said:
When they develop human like hands with tactile sense, then that will be a milestone and the company that specialized in hands would make a lot of money hands down! The one who specialized in robobrains would do well too. Will 20 or 30 years see the end of work for most people? I mean with these guys doing all the heavy lifting, cleaning and serving, and with AI doing all the thinking, we should live like kings, not be warehoused by billionaires.

interestingengineering.com

Robots for household chores less than 10 years away: expert

The humanoid machine can undertake all kinds of general-purpose tasks.
interestingengineering.com interestingengineering.com

Robots for household chores less than 10 years away: expert
The humanoid machine can undertake all kinds of general-purpose tasks.

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A new report by the BBC is quoting Geordie Rose, the chief executive of Sanctuary AI, a firm engineering a robot for household chores and general-purpose tasks, and the expert has stated that the development is less than 10 years away.

Ten years: an eternity
"Ten years at the pace the technology is moving now is an eternity. You know, every month, there's new developments in the AI world that are like fundamental change," Rose told the news outlet.

IE has already reported on Sanctuary AI’s household robot in May of this year. It’s called Phoenix and is five feet seven inches (5"7') and 155 pounds (70 kg).

Its goal is to do all the chores and tasks that humans find so burdensome. And it’s not just for homes. In a trial project undertaken in March of 2023, the robot worked a retail store in Vancouver, where it undertook 110 retail-related tasks such as picking and packaging merchandise, labeling, tagging, folding, and even cleaning up the store.

It even managed to use plastic bags to store clothes, a task Rose told the BBC was a true testament to how advanced the robot is...
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The lesson of Full Self-Driving suggests there might be some unanticipated and very interesting or entertaining failure modes.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Like when the one giving you an enema in the old folks home is hacked...
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I hope that they lay down a track record of reliability under a variety of unanticipated conditions before they let them do things like that!
That includes hardness against hacking. Comedy aside, the scenario you depict is the same sort of felony as a car bomb.

There’s also the cautionary tale of I, Robot.
 
OldMedUser

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DIY-HP-LED said:
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'Shrooms worked for me. I had suffered chronic depression since a near fatal hammer attack in Calgary in my early 20s. I self medicated with mainly alcohol since tho tried many prescribed antidepressants over the years. I got an oz of Penis Envy online in Dec 2020 and caught a good buzz on that New Year then just micro-dosed on and off after that. On May 29th of 2021 I went to town to do some shopping and pick up a bottle to get pissed and decided to skip that. I haven't had a drink since so it's been over two years without alcohol, without cravings or any real depression.

Worth a try!

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cannabineer

cannabineer

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OldMedUser said:
They are thinking of moving it to Schedule III which puts it in the hands of the FDA so it may not be good news and may prove to make things worse for states that have rec pot and home growing allowed. By the way the schedules are set up alcohol should be Schedule II.

Be careful what you wish for.

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the power of the alcohol, tobacco and firearms lobby is hard to overstate. :(
 
topcat

topcat

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Coffee City, Texas. Wow. I've never heard of a city of 249 people with a city council, mayor, and police force of 50 cops, half of them bad cops, having been disciplined, fired and criminally charged from other cities. They make 80-100K per year.

 
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