Just Ahead: Deep Fakes And Shallow Reality
Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, You’ve probably already seen deep fake videos portraying events that never happened in feeds from the wars…
Artificial Intelligence
If AI Is So Great, Why Is Managing the Digital Realm Eating Us Alive?
By Charles Hugh Smith The financial analysts gloating over the prospect of higher corporate profits resulting from firing workers overlook the collapse of customer satisfaction,…
US Deploys “Project Maven” In Middle East As AI Warfare Underway
By Tyler Durden Remember in 2018 when thousands of Google employees protested its Pentagon contract called “Project Maven” that used article intelligence technology to analyze drone surveillance…
Pakistan Executes AI-powered Criminal Identification System
Activist Post Editor’s Note: The author is clearly supportive of this technology, perhaps not knowing the multitude of complications and errors that have occurred in…
They Are Creating Incredibly Bizarre New Technologies For The Dystopian World Of The Future
By Michael Snyder Many would argue that we are already living in a dystopian society, but if those that are currently running things get their…
Face Biometrics Growing Role in Trust Raises Stakes for Fakes
By Chris Burt Face biometrics are powering identity checks for employment, air travel, and enterprise access control in some of the most-read stories of the…
Is This How Skynet Begins? Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI In Funding Humanoid Robotics Firm
By Tyler Durden A startup focused on developing general-purpose humanoids has attracted investments from Jeff Bezos, Nvidia Corp., and other major tech companies in its…
“Consent be damned,” said Dr. Fizzard with a sneer. “Ain’t no lawyers left to sue me with.”
By John C. A. Manley Today, I finished the final edit of my forthcoming novella, All the Humans are Sleeping. Well, it’s at least the…
Gemini AI Makes Me Wonder What My Great Grandchildren Will Believe About History
By Daisy Luther Do you ever see something that makes you really fear for the future? We all know that history is written by the…
Scientists on Quest to Decode the Human Brain – And Read People’s Minds
By The Conversation The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. Can researchers solve its greatest mysteries? In the middle of 2023, a…
Neuralink: Here’s What We Know About This Brain-Computer Interface
By Marie Hawthorne This site published an article back in 2019 on “smart chips for the brain.” It quoted Northwestern University neuroscientist and business professor…
U.S. Agencies Commit to Protecting Endangered Whales from Offshore Wind Farms Using A.I., Other Methods
By B.N. Frank Offshore wind projects are considered controversial and not only because dead whales and other marine life are washing up on beaches (see…
Biometrics Squaring Off with Deepfakes
By Chris Burt Biometrics can protect against the fraud threat of generative AI and deepfakes, but can also be defeated by them if not deployed…
Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship
By Debbie Lerman I feel scared. Very scared. Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here….