Bill Gates Says “The Age Of AI Has Begun”

Bill Gates Says “The Age Of AI Has Begun”:

In an op-ed titled “The Age of AI has begun” on “The Blog of Bill Gates,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates discussed the upcoming paradigm shift in technology. Having been instrumental in developing personal computers several decades ago, the billionaire seems to know a thing or two about technological innovation. He believes that OpenAI’s language generation artificial intelligence tools will be at the forefront of the next technological revolution.

Gates wrote, “I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.”

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Baidu Granted Permits To Operate Humanless Robotaxis In Beijing

Baidu Granted Permits To Operate Humanless Robotaxis In Beijing:

It looks like those robotaxis that were promised years ago are finally making their way onto the roads. The only problem is they aren’t Teslas – instead, they are products of Beijing’s internet search giant, Baidu.

The company, akin to Google in the U.S., received “the first permits to provide fully driverless ride-hailing services in a suburb of Beijing”, according to a Bloomberg wrap-up Friday morning. Baidu says it has plans of putting 10 robotaxis on the road to start in the Beijing Yizhuang Economic Development Zone, which Bloomberg notes is “roughly the size of Manhattan”.

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How Dangerous Is AI, And Will It Really Take Your Job?

How Dangerous Is AI, And Will It Really Take Your Job?:

Authored by John Mac Ghlionn via The Epoch Times,

Artificial intelligence (AI), we’re told, will probably destroy humanity.

Then again, those in the know tell us that it probably won’t. One thing AI will definitely do, though, is take our jobs, leaving a mass of unemployed, utterly useless individuals in its wake. Right?

The truth, though, is far more nuanced than some reports would have us believe.

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Ford Files For Patent That Can “Remotely Shut Down” Parts Of Your Car When Your Bill Isn’t Paid

Ford Files For Patent That Can “Remotely Shut Down” Parts Of Your Car When Your Bill Isn’t Paid:

Remember when getting in your car and flying down the highway with the top down used to be the perfect escape from the mire and muck of everyday life, like bills and e-mail? Now, thanks to the implementation of technology in the auto industry, that once-freeing joyride is literally becoming bills and e-mail.

That’s because a new patent from Ford now allows the manufacturer to “remotely shut down your radio or air conditioning, lock you out of your vehicle, or prompt it to ceaselessly beep if you miss car payments”, according to a new report from Bloomberg. While the official company line is that Ford has “no plans” to use the technology, we’re certain that’ll be proven to be incorrect over time.

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Power Shortages Coming Soon To America

Power Shortages Coming Soon To America:

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Existing power plants are projected to retire at a faster pace than installations of new units, and dependence on renewable projects are threatening widespread power shortages, according to a new report by regional power transmission company PJM Interconnection.

PJM analysis shows that 40 gigawatts (GW) of existing power generation is at risk of retirement by 2030, accounting for 21 percent of its current installed capacity. Meanwhile, 290 GW worth of new power supply is seeking to connect to PJM’s grid. But 94 percent of this power supply is made up of renewable energy projects that tend to only have a completion rate of 5 percent. This casts doubt on the ability of new power supply to replace old supply. PJM covers 13 eastern states and the District of Columbia.

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Tsunami Of Green Bans: German Economics Minister Plans End Of Gas, Oil Heating Beginning 2024!

#Agenda21, #TheGreatReset, #NWO…

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Tsunami Of Green Bans: German Economics Minister Plans End Of Gas, Oil Heating Beginning 2024!:

The Green Tyranny expands as the German government readies to ban oil and gas heat beginning 2024!

Economic “death blow”

Germany’s Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, Green Party, is reported to be planning a ban of gas and oil heating – as early as 2024, according to the online BILD

The proposed plan comes just after the EU Parliament voted to ban the registration of new fossil fuel cars beginning 2035.

According to Habeck’s draft legislation, homes and buildings would replace oil and gas heating systems with those operating with renewable energies, such as a heat pump.

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“This Kind Of Growth Is Almost Impossible For The Human Brain To Comprehend”

“This Kind Of Growth Is Almost Impossible For The Human Brain To Comprehend”:

By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management

Dark Forest

“Sorry to tell you, but there are no aliens,” said the intelligence analyst.

“The Tic Tac videos, balloons, UFOs – they’re not aliens,” he said. “We’re all alone here, it’s just us.”

For those of us who read Cixin Liu, China’s brilliant Sci-Fi author, the notion that we are alone is extremely comforting. Cixin turned me onto the Dark Forest hypothesis, which postulates that while there may be many alien civilizations out there, we see no sign of them because they are silent and paranoid, lest they alert others to their existence and invite invasion, annihilation. 

“What we see is our next generation military technology,” continued the intelligence analyst.

“We all see what the Ukrainians did to Russia’s military using battlefield technology that we would generally consider obsolete relative to our state of the art,” he said. “But America’s actual state of the art is one or two generations ahead of what the public sees today,” he said, which was simultaneously comforting and terrifying.

“It is not in our interest to show our adversaries how far advanced our capabilities have grown.”

“Look carefully at this chart,” said the technology investor.

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Experts Warn against Humans Wearing Bracelets to “be used as part of an electromagnetic radiation antenna system to power 6G”

Experts Warn against Humans Wearing Bracelets to “be used as part of an electromagnetic radiation antenna system to power 6G”:

Opposition to 5G continues to increase worldwide due to numerous significant issues associated with the technology.  5G doesn’t seem to be the “end goal” though – it’s 6G which is also highly controversial.  Nevertheless, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the U.S. government (see 1, 2), as well as a growing number of companies and universities (see 1, 2, 3) have been working on 6G applications for various purposes which also includes using human bodies as power sources for electronic devices.  Of course, some experts say this too has its downsides.

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Combustion Going Bust: Global Phase-Outs Of Gasoline Cars

Combustion Going Bust: Global Phase-Outs Of Gasoline Cars:

The European Union last week approved a law that will ban the sale of combustion engine cars in its member states from 2035.

For Germany and Italy as well as for Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the new bill sets a first deadline for the sale of gasoline-powered cars.

However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, the current governments of the former two countries, however, have already spoken out against the ban – calling into question the timeline of the phase-out that climate scientists call absolutely necessary, but that could also face delays.

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Microsoft’s Bing AI Chatbot Starts Threatening People

Microsoft’s Bing AI Chatbot Starts Threatening People:

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do all of the other fun things that engines like GPT-3 and ChatGPT have been demonstrating over the past few months: the ability to generate poetry, and jokes, and do creative writing, and so much more.

This week, people have started gaining access to it via the waiting list. It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet.

If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s what’s transpired so far.

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Military AI Applications Will Be As Game-Changing As Nukes: Former Google CEO

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Military AI Applications Will Be As Game-Changing As Nukes: Former Google CEO:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that artificial intelligence will be as game-changing as nuclear weapons when it comes to military applications.

“Every once in a while, a new weapon, a new technology comes along that changes things. Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt in the 1930s saying that there is this new technology—nuclear weapons—that could change war, which it clearly did,” Schmidt told Wired. “I would argue that [AI-powered] autonomy and decentralised, distributed systems are that powerful.”

With Schmidt’s help, a similar view has taken root inside the DOD over the past decade, where leaders believe AI will revolutionize military hardware, intelligence gathering, and backend software. In the early 2010s the Pentagon began assessing technology that could help it maintain an edge over an ascendant Chinese military. The Defense Science Board, the agency’s top technical advisory body, concluded that AI-powered autonomy would shape the future of military competition and conflict. -Wired

According to Schmidt, the US military has good people, but a bad system which could benefit greatly by upgrading their technology.

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Researchers Look To Turn Decommissioned Mines Into Batteries

Researchers Look To Turn Decommissioned Mines Into Batteries:

  • Researchers are studying a new energy storage technique using decommissioned mines.
  • The technique called Underground Gravity Energy Storage aims to turn abandoned mines into long-term energy storage solutions.
  • The deeper and broader the mineshaft, the more power can be extracted from the plant, and the larger the mine, the higher the plant’s energy storage capacity.

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