Scary Cool Tech Thread
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- lnu0
- someone needs to shut these people down. now. else later on we'll have to send someone back in time to do it...hans_glib
- When we finally build them with autonomous AI it's going to be so cool and scary at the same time. And we're not far from it :DMaaku
- great future! these robots will carry us when we are old, right? We just have to make sure that nobody is using them for war.api
- i'm sure nobody will. it'll be fine.hans_glib
- imbecile1
- the windscreen wiper.. could it not be at 90deg...shapesalad
- soon we'll be watching robot races where the win is based strictly on the engineering and not the operator... feels a bit heartless / soulless thoughPonyBoy
- sofas0
"Facial recognition used to catch suspect in crowd of 60,000 concertgoers"
- I stopped at "thanks to a facial recognition system".
Sick of this system we live in.mugwart - i wonder what the legal ramifications would be of building a global database to store the facial profiles of cops?kingsteven
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https://en.wikipedia…detritus
- I stopped at "thanks to a facial recognition system".
- hans_glib1
- Apperently the Russians used to do this on documents, amending the occasional space value between each copy to verify who leaked in the first place.detritus
- 'Apperently'?
That's it, I'm quitting the internet, I can't do this properly any more.detritus - recalibrate the touch point on your thumb to your brain...happens when you grow older and fingers start to grow fat and change volume distributionuan
- Glyph Pertubation, they probably mean Perturbationuan
- Huh - had you read this earlier, hansie?detritus
- https://medium.com/@…detritus
- akiersky1
China will ban people with poor ‘social credit’ from planes and trains
- set0
What the fuck do they have now?
"CIA’s dragonfly drone was created in the 1970s!"
Footage is at 0:54
- imbecile1
Nobel prize-winning Stanford physics professor Robert Laughlin designed a theoretical system that stores electricity as heat (in high temperature molten salt) and cold (in a low temperature liquid similar to the antifreeze you have in your car). The energy stored in salt can be kept for days or even weeks, until it’s needed.
- Yo, can you check your URL, please?detritus
- http://www.x.company…...imbecile
- grrrrimbecile
- http://goo.gl/er7XE9…imbecile
- Thanks, man!detritus
- utopian2
Researchers 3D-print WiFi-connected objects that don't need power
- PonyBoy0
Hyperloop firm Arrivo to create 200 mph traffic-busting tubes in downtown Denver
-Arrivo's hyperloop-type system features a platform/pod that envelopes a car and then scoots it along a tube at speeds up to 200 mph.-
https://www.usatoday.com/story/t…
"Arrivo founder Brogan BamBrogan joined Colorado transportation officials in Denver Tuesday to announce a partnership to create a network of roadside tubes at the congested heart of the city that promises to whisk drivers and their cars to their destinations at speeds of up to 200 mph... The Arrivo test site will be near E-470 and groundbreaking is slated for early 2018."
- awful logomilfhunter
- "Brogan Bambrogan"garbage
- My takeaway is that Elon Musk has a sense of humour: "Musk has launched The Boring Company in order to start drilling tunnels..."flashbender
- Do you think he was all "Get it?!?! Boring... BORING! It has two meanings, bwaaaaahahahahahaha"flashbender
- sarahfailin0
Anybody use Amazon Now yet?? 2-Hour delivery for no charge (if you have Prime) on a bunch of reasonably priced items... For real??
- not trying to advertise for them. just don't see how this is possible.sarahfailin
- yup & i find myself using amazon products more and more.. prime photos is the best.plash
- For no charge (if you pay)set
- imbecile2
AT&T Joins the Open-Source Artificial-Intelligence Arms Race
https://www.wired.com/story/atan…
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Programmers and AI researchers use tools like Google's TensorFlow framework to create machine-learning models. Acumos will be both a directory for finding and sharing AI models and a system for customizing and connecting those models in useful ways.
For example, if you wanted to build an application for analyzing video, you could search Acumos for a video facial-recognition model and a location-identification model, and combine them into a program that can take a video and try to tell you who is in it and where it was shot.
The big question is whether anyone will use it after it launches in early 2018.
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Personally, I can't wait.
- I'm kind of slightly massively turned on by speculative thoughts about what free human agents wielding AI agents in the background can achieve in future.detritus
- Bluejam0
"In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go ... with no human help
...In games against the 2015 version, which famously beat Lee Sedol, the South Korean grandmaster, AlphaGo Zero won 100 to 0."
- It's a shame AC is already taken because I think it's time for the term Artificial Consciousness to come in as there's a huge difference between...set
- ...intelligence and consciousness. I don't care how intelligent a computer is, as long as it's not conscious... we're cool.set
- consciousness will be when the bot decides not to play anymoreimbecile
- Well, simply put yesset
- I'm excited for the day when computer players are marginally worse than me at games. I don't want a computer that wins all the time.slappy
- sofas0
Modern scientific racism coming out of the Jews start up nation (also, you should smile):
"Faception is first-to-technology and first-to-market with proprietary computer vision and machine learning technology for profiling people and revealing their personality based only on their facial image."
https://www.faception.com/
- sofas0
- cuban council did it
http://www.cubancoun…imbecile - So people are now willing to aggregate their emotional responses to an app? Dick already had it pegged with Mercerism.face_melter
- thanks @imbecile, wasn't awaresofas
- cuban council did it
- dasmeteor0
- the japanese are going to do horrible things with this.sarahfailin
- ^Gnash
- develop crazy high end robot technology, films demo on a VHS tape cameraautoflavour
- detritus0
Quasistatic Cavity Resonance for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer... from Disney. Fucking lol at that sentence.
Anyway, this is neat, but a bit scary to me as I imagine this is basically a big cancer wand...
- dbloc0
Ambulance Drone.
- Available in 2142 ADutopian
- stupid drone didn't even pick up any sick people. this'll never workGnash
- Seems needlessly complex. An Israeli company's been working on this for years now.. http://www.urbanaero…detritus
- pablo280
- Way too intrusive.Maaku
- connected to a VR system it could take you to a happy place when it detects you're feeling sadfruitsalad
- and then we can live happily in our trash filled cities contaminated by nuclear accidents.fruitsalad
- soma, ftwGnash