Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoMarshall McLuhan, famous as a futurist in the 1970s, seems uncannily accurate in how he predicted the world of the 2020s.plus-squarewww.thefp.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMarshall McLuhan, famous as a futurist in the 1970s, seems uncannily accurate in how he predicted the world of the 2020s.plus-squarewww.thefp.comLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Futurologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agoTrust in AI is declining across the world.plus-squarethehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTrust in AI is declining across the world.plus-squarethehill.comFuturologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoThe world’s biggest EV maker is rewriting the rules of batteries. China’s BYD is betting big on sodium ion cells.plus-squarespectrum.ieee.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe world’s biggest EV maker is rewriting the rules of batteries. China’s BYD is betting big on sodium ion cells.plus-squarespectrum.ieee.orgLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
RewindAgain@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agoScientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concernsplus-squarewww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkScientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concernsplus-squarewww.scientificamerican.comRewindAgain@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Futurologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agoGoogle launches Claude 3 and says its more powerful than GPT-4.plus-squarewww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle launches Claude 3 and says its more powerful than GPT-4.plus-squarewww.cnbc.comFuturologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Futurologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agoWhat’s next for robotaxis in 2024 - In addition to restoring public trust, robotaxi companies need to prove that their business models can compete with Uber and taxis.plus-squarewww.technologyreview.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWhat’s next for robotaxis in 2024 - In addition to restoring public trust, robotaxi companies need to prove that their business models can compete with Uber and taxis.plus-squarewww.technologyreview.comFuturologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoWhen anyone anywhere can easily make TV & movies, will America lose its greatest source of soft power - exporting its culture via Hollywood?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhen anyone anywhere can easily make TV & movies, will America lose its greatest source of soft power - exporting its culture via Hollywood?plus-squareLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoGermany's largest telecom company, Deutsche Telekom, says AI will render apps on phones obsolete and is launching a high-end smartphone with only an AI interface.plus-squarewww.verdict.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGermany's largest telecom company, Deutsche Telekom, says AI will render apps on phones obsolete and is launching a high-end smartphone with only an AI interface.plus-squarewww.verdict.co.ukLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoGoogle Is Paying Publishers to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform. In exchange for a five-figure sum, publishers must use the tool to publish 3 stories per day.plus-squarewww.adweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Is Paying Publishers to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform. In exchange for a five-figure sum, publishers must use the tool to publish 3 stories per day.plus-squarewww.adweek.comLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoGerman researchers have turned a fiber optic cable into a computational device that runs some AI models, using only light, better than silicon chips.plus-squarewww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGerman researchers have turned a fiber optic cable into a computational device that runs some AI models, using only light, better than silicon chips.plus-squarewww.techradar.comLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Futurologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agoHere lies the internet, murdered by generative AI- Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids contentplus-squarewww.theintrinsicperspective.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHere lies the internet, murdered by generative AI- Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids contentplus-squarewww.theintrinsicperspective.comFuturologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Futurologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agoAdobe previews ‘Photoshop of music’ - new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio.plus-squareblog.adobe.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAdobe previews ‘Photoshop of music’ - new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio.plus-squareblog.adobe.comFuturologist@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoSwedish Company Klarna is replacing 700 human employees with OpenAI's bots and says all its metrics show the bots perform better with customers.plus-squarewww.euronews.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSwedish Company Klarna is replacing 700 human employees with OpenAI's bots and says all its metrics show the bots perform better with customers.plus-squarewww.euronews.comLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Espiritdescali@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoElectric vehicles will crush fossil cars on price as lithium and battery prices fallplus-squarethedriven.ioexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkElectric vehicles will crush fossil cars on price as lithium and battery prices fallplus-squarethedriven.ioEspiritdescali@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Espiritdescali@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoPeter Diamandis Predicts 'Millions, Then Billions' of Humanoid Robots Are Comingwww.inc.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPeter Diamandis Predicts 'Millions, Then Billions' of Humanoid Robots Are Comingwww.inc.comEspiritdescali@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoNvidia researcher Dr. Jim Fan announced he is co-founding a new research group named GEAR, aimed at building AI foundation agents spanning multimodal LLMs, general purpose robots, and more.plus-squareresearch.nvidia.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNvidia researcher Dr. Jim Fan announced he is co-founding a new research group named GEAR, aimed at building AI foundation agents spanning multimodal LLMs, general purpose robots, and more.plus-squareresearch.nvidia.comLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoA new study from the Mozilla Foundation warns that AI romance chatbots pose privacy risks, collect sensitive user data, and may foster unhealthy behaviors.plus-squarefoundation.mozilla.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkA new study from the Mozilla Foundation warns that AI romance chatbots pose privacy risks, collect sensitive user data, and may foster unhealthy behaviors.plus-squarefoundation.mozilla.orgLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
voidx@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoCan we drill for hydrogen? New find suggests additional geological source.plus-squarearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCan we drill for hydrogen? New find suggests additional geological source.plus-squarearstechnica.comvoidx@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months ago“Corolla killer:” BYD launches $US15,000 sedan EV with 420 km range in direct attack on legacy makersplus-squarethedriven.ioexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link“Corolla killer:” BYD launches $US15,000 sedan EV with 420 km range in direct attack on legacy makersplus-squarethedriven.ioLugh@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
voidx@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agoSwarms of AI "killer robots" are the future of war: If that sounds scary, it shouldwww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSwarms of AI "killer robots" are the future of war: If that sounds scary, it shouldwww.salon.comvoidx@futurology.todayMEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square0fedilink
