Artificial Intelligence

The AI military-industrial complex is here

The Pentagon desperately wants technological superiority over its military rivals. And in 2024, that means it’s in hot pursuit of artificial intelligence.

That should come as no surprise; after all, the military has been a major funder, driver, and early adopter of cutting-edge technology throughout the last century. Military spending on AI-related federal contracts has been booming since 2022, according to a Brookings Institution analysis, which found yearly spending on AI increased from $355 million in the year leading up to August 2022 to a whopping $4.6 billion a year later.

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Google’s AI can accurately predict weather forecasts 15 days in advance

“Googling” today’s forecast could soon be even more reliable.

Just like your friendly TV meteorologist, current weather models could perhaps be a thing of the past. Google has unveiled an AI meteorology tech that is far faster and more accurate than traditional forecasts, per a study published in the journal “Nature.”

Devised by the search engine firm’s AI division, DeepMind, the “GenCast” model can tell if it’s going to rain 15 days ahead of time at a higher accuracy rate than the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ ENS (ECMWF) — the world’s top operational forecasting system, per the Google Deepmind blog.

This discrepancy has to do with a completely new monsoon-divining methodology. Whereas current iterations are “deterministic, and provided a single, best estimate of future weather,” GenCast “comprises an ensemble of 50 or more predictions, each representing a possible weather trajectory,” the blog’s authors write.

So how will this be weaponized against the public?

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Three Horrifying Consequences Of AI That You Might Not Have Thought About

The potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence have long been codified into our popular culture, well before the technology became a reality. Usually these fictional accounts portray AI as a murderous entity that comes to the “logical conclusion” that human beings are a parasitic species that needs to be eradicated. Keep in mind that most of these stories are written by progressives out of Hollywood and are mostly a reflection of their own philosophies.

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Trump extends Canada annexation joke with AI-generated image

Trump posted the AI-generated photo with the caption “Oh Canada!” on social media. It depicted the incoming president looking over a mountainous landscape with a Canadian flag waving behind him.

This is all in jest and the Trump video is AI.

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WEF’s “Global Intelligence Collecting AI” to Erase Ideas from the Internet

The World Economic Forum is becoming a little concerned. Unapproved opinions are becoming more popular, and online censors cannot keep up with millions of people becoming more aware and more vocal. The censorship engines employed by Internet platforms, turned out to be quite stupid and incapable. People are even daring to complain about the World Economic Forum, which is obviously completely unacceptable.

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Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Has Self-Awareness and Consciousness

According to Google engineer Blake Lemoine, an artificial intelligence (“AI”) chatbot application called LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has achieved sentience, or independent self-aware consciousness.

Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, have dismissed Lemoine’s claims and placed him on paid administrative leave for breach of confidentiality.

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Introducing Meta’s Next-Gen AI Supercomputer

Today we’re introducing the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which we believe is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the world once fully built out in mid-2022. AI can currently perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content, but developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second.

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China Made An AI ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Charge People With Crimes

The AI “prosecutor” is given a verbal definition of a case and then decides whether to file charges, according to the South China Morning Post, citing researchers involved in developing the program. The prosecutor files charges with a 97% accuracy rate, and is intended to reduce prosecutors’ workload.

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Homeland Security Looking For Ideas on AI, Biological Surveillance

These proposed areas include automated artificial intelligence sensing technology, counterfeit microelectronic detection, a broadband interoperability platform, biological hazard detection, a mass fatality tracking system, a wearable detector for chemical threats, low cost diagnostic devices, and streamlined airport checkpoint technology for passengers with limited mobility.

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Canada Meet Its Bold Immigration Targets

After immigration levels plummeted during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada plans to welcome 400,000 newcomers by the end of 2021 and 411,000 in 2022.

These figures arrived in tandem with a spring announcement regarding new funding for the artificial intelligence-based “GeoMatch” tool, which is designed to optimize immigrant settlement patterns for improved financial outcomes. At the same time, the pace of data analytics testing in the sorting and management of temporary resident visa applications is accelerating.

Both of these developments suggest AI-rooted automation could play a role in supporting immigration targets and ensuring the success of new immigrants in Canada’s post-pandemic economy.

Post-pandemic economy? Someone isn’t paying attention.

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AI is Increasingly Being Used to Identify Emotions – Here’s What’s at Stake

Emotion recognition technology (ERT) is in fact a burgeoning multi-billion-dollar industry that aims to use AI to detect emotions from facial expressions. Yet the science behind emotion recognition systems is controversial: there are biases built into the systems.

Many companies use ERT to test customer reactions to their products, from cereal to video games. But it can also be used in situations with much higher stakes, such as in hiring, by airport security to flag faces as revealing deception or fear, in border control, in policing to identify “dangerous people” or in education to monitor students’ engagement with their homework.

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A Dyson Sphere Could Bring Humans Back From the Dead, Researchers Say

Here’s how it will go down: A megastructure called a Dyson Sphere will provide a superintelligent artificial agent (AI) with the enormous amounts of power it needs to collect as much historical and personal data about you, so it can rebuild your exact digital copy. Once it’s finished, you’ll live your whole life (again) in a simulated reality, and when the time comes for you to die (again), you’ll be transported into a simulated afterlife, à la Black Mirror’s “San Junipero,” where you’ll get to hang out with your friends, family, and favorite celebrities forever.

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Report finds US AI firm conducted “illegal” mass surveillance on Canadians

“What Clearview does is mass surveillance and it is illegal,” said Canadian privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien. “It is completely unacceptable for millions of people who will never be implicated in any crime to find themselves continually in a police lineup. Yet the company continues to claim its purposes were appropriate.”

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