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Nanotechnology: Here We Are Right Now┃New Breakthrough!
Ever wondered about the work going on in nanotech labs around the world, and the potential applications this nanotech, which is one of the most powerful tools humanity will ever create, will have on health, energy, the environment, materials science, data storage and processing.
Ancient Aliens: Nanotechnology & The Future of Humans
Transhumanists believe our bodies will soon be home to nanomachines so that humans can live much longer, healthier lives in this clip from Season 11, Episode 3, “The Next Humans.”
Learning the OpenAI Playground | step by step
The OpenAI playground has been released to the public with no waitlist in November 2021. If you have been looking to test out building an AI generated application, now is the time.
In this short tutorial I will talk about some of the different characteristics the Openai gpt-3 playground provides. With a multitude of capabilities finding what’s best for you can start right here.
Is artificial intelligence the future of warfare? | UpFront
“If we’re looking for that one terminator to show up at our door, we’re maybe looking in the wrong place,” says Matt Mahmoudi, Amnesty International artificial intelligence researcher. “What we’re actually needing to keep an eye out for are these more mundane ways in which these technologies are starting to play a role in our everyday lives.”
Laura Nolan, a software engineer and a former Google employee now with the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, agrees. “These kinds of weapons, they’re very intimately bound up in surveillance technologies,” she says of lethal autonomous weapons systems or LAWS.
Beyond surveillance, Nolan warns that: “Taking the logic of what we’re doing in warfare or in our society, and we start encoding it in algorithms and processes … can lead to things spinning out of control.”
But Mahmoudi, says there is hope for banning autonomous weapons, citing existing protections against the use of chemical and biological weapons. “It’s never too late, but we have to put human beings and not data points ahead of the agenda.”
On UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill discusses the risks behind autonomous weapons with the International Committee for Robot Arms Control’s Laura Nolan and Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi.
Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022
In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk — the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company — digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (Recorded at TED2022 on April 14, 2022)
This live interview includes an excerpt from another exclusive, extended conversation recorded a few days earlier at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory.
Wikipedia’s Bias
I love Wikipedia! I even donated to it. But I won’t donate again, now that I’ve learned how BIASED Wikipedia has become.
No right-leaning outlets, Fox News Politics, the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, etc… is considered “reliable” by Wikipedia. None.
But even some of the most extreme leftist outlets get a “reliable” badge — like “Jacobin,” a self-described SOCIALIST outlet.
Vox, Buzzfeed News, and Slate are also deemed “reliable” by Wikipedia. Editors may base stories on their reporting.
Why did Wikipedia become so biased? Veteran Wikipedian Jonathan Weiss tells me that the site, like academia, has been captured by leftists.
Some Wikipedia administrators even brag on their profiles, “this user is a socialist.” Another put up images idolizing communist murderers Che Guevara and Vladimir Lenin.
These administrators make final decisions about what counts as “reliable,” and what goes on Wikipedia.
That’s why for years, Wiki’s “communism” page made NO mention of the millions killed by that ideology.
US border facilities are listed under “concentration camps,” on the same page as Wikipedia’s holocaust facilities.
Can we fix this? Wikipedia is supposed to be a site that “anyone can edit,” so I made an edit. You can find out what happened in the video above.
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Already Solved the Internet’s Problems
Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” went from being a weird online experiment 21 years ago to one of the mainstays of the modern internet with astonishing speed. Even more astonishing, it has maintained its reputation and functionality since its founding, even as the rest of the social internet seems hellbent on tearing itself apart.
As Twitter, Facebook, and others are consumed with controversy over moderation, governance, and the definition of free speech, Wikipedia continues to quietly grow in utility, trustworthiness, and comprehensiveness; there are now nearly 6.5 million articles on the English version alone and it has held its place in the top 15 most visited sites on the internet for well over a decade.
Reason spoke with Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, who was predictably modest about what he got right. A key ingredient to Wikipedia’s success is its high degree of decentralization. After this interview was conducted, Elon Musk made a bid to buy Twitter, bringing new salience to the battle over who controls the flow of information (and disinformation) online.
Reason last spoke with Wales 15 years ago, and the resulting profile ended up becoming a source for Wales’ own Wikipedia entry. At that time, we talked about the future of online speech, improving the algorithms that shape our lives, and the role that Friedrich Hayek played in Wales’ thinking. This conversation picked up where we left off.
These Mini Nuclear Reactors Can be Built Anywhere
Will we see small nuclear reactors cropping up around the world? Well, it has already started. Small modular reactors make nuclear power simpler. They are less expensive and easier to make operational, compared to traditional reactors and are safer.
Autonomous Trucking – Where Exactly Are We? (And Other Questions) | Answers With Joe
With the current shortage of truckers, it makes you wonder what the state of autonomous trucking is right now. At least, it prompted one of my Patreon supporters to ask the question, and many others in today’s lightning round video.