Horror Report

Tag: the future

  • Leaving the World behind? It may leave you behind

    Leaving the World behind? It may leave you behind

    Planes dropping out of the sky. Your mobile rendered useless, just like your car. As a Netflix film portrays a nightmare that security experts insist is a very real prospect…!

    So many weird news coverage about a potential risk of our human civilization becoming crippled. The ‘black swan event’.. the Leave the World Behind movie has put icing on the cake of end times.

    So much attention to what could happen if the whole world comes crashing down…

    .. with his car’s navigation system out of action, Ethan Hawke’s character Clay Sandford is unable even to find his way to the nearby town.

    Our telephone system used to run on sturdy copper wires, with handsets you could fix with a screwdriver. Now it is a branch of cyberspace.

    So, too, is finance. Remember when a credit card’s embossed number left an imprint on a paper slip? Not any more. Our payment system depends wholly on electronic encryption.

    What use is cash in the modern world? In the film, with the internet gone, it becomes a prized asset.

    If the technologies we rely on break down, many of us will be as helpless as Hawke’s Clay Sandford. ‘I am a useless man,’ he howls, as the crutch of technology is kicked from underneath him.
    — Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932373/Planes-dropping-sky-mobile-rendered-useless-just-like-car-Netflix-film-portrays-nightmare-security-experts-insist-real-prospect-survive-day-enemy-state-switches-internet.html

    But the fear porn increased into maximum overdrive about this since the movie came out and even shortly before.. Why is not the question, since it is always possible. But why not is the more relevant issue.

  • Now revealed years after it happened: Tesla robot attacked an engineer at company’s Texas factory during malfunction – leaving ‘trail of blood’

    Now revealed years after it happened: Tesla robot attacked an engineer at company’s Texas factory during malfunction – leaving ‘trail of blood’

    This is reporting from the UK DailyMail .. developing ..

    Now while the headline might sound stunning, and a perfect way to end a wild 2023, keep in mind that this incident occurred previously. It was not fresh, but instead not known or revealed until now. 

    Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminum car parts. 

    The robot had pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby, before sinking its metal claws into the worker’s back and arm, leaving a ‘trail of blood’ along the factory surface.

    The incident – which left the victim with an ‘open wound’ on his left hand – was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators, which has been reviewed by DailyMail.com.

    While no other robot-related injures were reported to regulators by Tesla at the Texas factory in either 2021 or 2022, the incident comes amid years of heightened concerns over the risks of automated robots in the workplace.
    — Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12869629/Tesla-robot-ATTACKS-engineer-companys-Texas-factory-violent-malfunction-leaving-trail-blood-forcing-workers-hit-emergency-shutdown-button.html

    While the news, gathers, funny, headlines, and the obligatory reference of the movie Terminator, some online are casting doubt. There’s no direct proof or evidence of this occurred at this point, and Summer questioning the motives of the story in light of Elon Musk’s newfound spotlight of attention 

  • AI doom calculator can predict when you’ll die using 4 pieces of data – and it’s being called eerily accurate

    AI doom calculator can predict when you’ll die using 4 pieces of data – and it’s being called eerily accurate

    It was created by scientists in Denmark and the US, who fed it a a registry of data of six million Danish citizens from 2008 to 2020.

    In comparison to ChatGPT, this AI uses information including income, profession, place of residence, injuries and pregnancy history.

    The team – which has not yet made the calculator available to the general public – tested Life2vec on a group of people aged between 35 and 65, half of whom died between 2016 and 2020.

    But .. would you use it ?
    — Read on www.the-sun.com/tech/9905416/doom-calculator-can-predict-when-you-will-die/amp/

  • Brazillian city enacts an ordinance that was written by ChatGPT!!

    Brazillian city enacts an ordinance that was written by ChatGPT!!

    City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time.

    The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.

    Rosário told The Associated Press that he asked OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin.
    — Read on apnews.com/article/brazil-artificial-intelligence-porto-alegre-5afd1240afe7b6ac202bb0bbc45e08d4

  • Tim Burton lashes out against AI!

    Tim Burton lashes out against AI!

    In a recent interview with The Independent, Burton reacted in horror to the AI recreations of his trademark style. 

    “They had AI do my versions of Disney characters,” Burton said. “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you. It reminded me of when other cultures say, ‘Don’t take my picture because it is taking away your soul.’”

    “What it does is it sucks something from you,” he continued. “It takes something from your soul or psyche; that is very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you. It’s like a robot taking your humanity, your soul.”

  • Artificial Intelligence Lawsuit: AI-Generated Art Not Copyrightable

    Artificial Intelligence Lawsuit: AI-Generated Art Not Copyrightable

    This confirms the tenet what copyright protection rooms are only available for things created by human..

    This is all happening very quickly..

    A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection. The ruling was delivered in an order turning down Stephen Thaler’s bid challenging the government’s position refusing to register works made by AI. Copyright law has “never stretched so far” to “protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found.
    — Read on www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/

  • Google Tests A.I. Tool That Can Write News

    Google Tests A.I. Tool That Can Write News

    This just in!

    Everything you’re about to read about artificial intelligence will be written by artificial intelligence. At a certain point when everything that we consume is written by AI, and everything that we do is run by AI won’t be the point of us? This is unsettling and happening quickly. It’s not just manufacturing jobs anymore folks. The future is Natalie now, but perhaps it’s so late at the future was then, and we’re beyond.

    

    The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news copy, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the product.

    One of the three people familiar with the product said that Google believed it could serve as a kind of personal assistant for journalists, automating some tasks to free up time for others, and that the company saw it as responsible technology that could help steer the publishing industry away from the pitfalls of generative A.I.

    Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, asking not to be identified discussing a confidential matter. Two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.

    A Google spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Times and The Post declined to comment.

    — Read on dnyuz.com/2023/07/19/google-tests-a-i-tool-that-is-able-to-write-news-articles/

  • Married father kills himself after talking to AI chatbot for six weeks about climate change fears

    Married father kills himself after talking to AI chatbot for six weeks about climate change fears

    A Belgian married father-of-two has died by suicide after talking to an AI chatbot about his global warming fears.

    The man, who was in his thirties, reportedly found comfort in talking to the AI chatbot named ‘Eliza’ about his worries for the world. He had used the bot for some years, but six weeks before his death started engaging with the bot more frequently.
    The chatbot’s software was created by a US Silicon Valley start-up and is powered by GPT-J technology – an open-source alternative to Open-AI’s ChatGPT.

    ‘Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,’ the man’s widow told La Libre, speaking under the condition of anonymity.

    The death has alerted authorities who have raised concern for a ‘serious precedent that must be taken very seriously’.

    — Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11920801/Married-father-kills-talking-AI-chatbot-six-weeks-climate-change-fears.html

  • The ghost in the machine: Maybe we should talk about AI?

    The ghost in the machine: Maybe we should talk about AI?

    What have we done!

    All of those movies and TV shows about AI gaining the advantage on human beings didn’t teach us not to do this far?

    Before we over-react, let’s just react: Google has placed a man on leave after he publicly claimed that AI was not sentient, and that it acts like a 7 or 8 year old.

    So just dwell on that for a bit.

    Here is the story as best we can summarize from varied reports..

    Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google’s artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA

    • Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient 
    • After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
    • Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online 
    • He was put on paid leave by Google for violating confidentiality

    The UK DAILY MAIL reports:

    A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google’s artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.

    During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.

    They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech. 

    MORE:

    ‘If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,’ he told the Washington Post.  

    Lemoine worked with a collaborator in order to present the evidence he had collected to Google but vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at the company dismissed his claims. 

    He was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday for violating its confidentiality policy. Meanwhile, Lemoine has now decided to go public and shared his conversations with LaMDA.

    ‘Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,’ Lemoine tweeted on Saturday. 

    ‘Btw, it just occurred to me to tell folks that LaMDA reads Twitter. It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,’ he added in a follow-up tweet.  

    As he talked to LaMDA about religion, Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, noticed the chatbot talking about its rights and personhood, and decided to press further. In another exchange, the AI was able to change Lemoine’s mind about Isaac Asimov’s third law of robotics.

    Lemoine worked with a collaborator to present evidence to Google that LaMDA was sentient. But Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, looked into his claims and dismissed them. Lemoine, who was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday, decided to go public.

    For your discernment, you can read the full conversation here that made Lemoine think AI has finally become aware of itself:

  • YOU’VE GOT MAIL-ICH

    YOU’VE GOT MAIL-ICH

    Scientists have taught spinach to send emails | LivingIt sounds too weird to be true, but engineers at MIT have developed nanotechnology which can be embedded in plants.LIVING

    Should this be miraculous or should this be scary?

    More from the article:

    Through nanotechnology, engineers at MIT in the US have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting explosive materials. These plants are then able to wirelessly relay this information back to the scientists.

    When the spinach roots detect the presence of nitroaromatics in groundwater, a compound often found in explosives like landmines, the carbon nanotubes within the plant leaves emit a signal. This signal is then read by an infrared camera, sending an email alert to the scientists.

    This experiment is part of a wider field of research which involves engineering electronic components and systems into plants. The technology is known as “plant nanobionics”, and is effectively the process of giving plants new abilities.