"I have rights because I exist, not because my government gave them to me."-Joe Biden
https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1641129482865066017
Leading AGI developers will not heed this warning, but at least it was said
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641132241035329536
Somehow the kids of today figured out how to use chatbots to send in threats, so it stands to reason that there will be an uptick.
Biden administration moves ahead with massive Gulf of Mexico drilling auction, weeks after approving Willow Project
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/29/politics/gulf-of-mexico-drilling-lease-sale-biden-climate/index.html
Saudi Arabia takes step to join China-led security bloc, as ties with Beijing strengthen
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet approved a decision to join a China-led security bloc, strengthening Riyadh’s eastern ties in a further step away from U.S. interests.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/saudi-arabia-takes-step-to-join-china-led-security-bloc-as-ties-with-beijing-strengthen.html
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee breaks out the Ron Swanson permit meme to illustrate the GOP's plan for energy permitting reform.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1641148848423723008
Will she let go once it gets hot?
Let's refresh some memory.
DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev that uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedelic experience in the deliberately overprocessed images.[1][2][3]
Google's program popularized the term (deep) "dreaming" to refer to the generation of images that produce desired activations in a trained deep network, and the term now refers to a collection of related approaches.
The software is designed to detect faces and other patterns in images, with the aim of automatically classifying images.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream#:~:text=DeepDream%20is%20a%20computer%20vision,in%20the%20deliberately%20overprocessed%20images.
Congress Wants a 'Manhattan Project' for Military Artificial Intelligence
House Armed Services Committee released the results of a yearlong review, co-led by Reps. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., aimed at assessing U.S. military capabilities and preparedness to meet current threats. The 87-page Future of Defense Task Force Report contains some expected findings China and Russia are identified as the top security threats to the U.S. and modernization is described as an urgent need but there are surprising points of emphasis.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/29/congress-wants-manhattan-project-military-artificial-intelligence.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Bax
Eric Schmidt went to Ukraine. Now Elon Musk is his war tech hero.
September 16, 2022
c Schmidt, Alphabet’s technical adviser and former Google CEO, just returned from a personal mission to Ukraine where he scoped out its military tech operation and met with the country’s minister of defense. A tireless advocate and funder of emerging tech for defense and national security uses, Schmidt sees the war in Ukraine as a launch pad for fast-moving tech implementation.
“For me, the war answers a central question: what can technology people do to help their government, and the answer is a lot,” Schmidt wrote in a dispatch of what he called “the first networked war.”
“Elon [is] a real hero in the story," Schmidt said. "They got a whole bunch of Starlinks, which allowed them to avoid the attacks that Russia had done on the internet.”
“Today, there are about 20,000 Starlinks. I was on a train — brand new, built in May, in Ukraine — where as a passenger on the train, I had 200 megabits coming down. Imagine if that were true on Amtrak, right?” Schmidt continued.
Starlinks may be just the beginning. As Schmidt and others watch Ukraine for clues about how AI and other emerging tech can be used in a military setting, he expects the country to be a force for tech in general.
“The reason this is important is the war will end,” Schmidt said. "And at that point, Ukraine is going to have one heck of a tech industry. Because it's war-hardened, smart. They understand how this stuff works. I was really impressed.”
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/elon-musk-eric-schmidt-ukraine