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the Physical Culture Podcast is LIVE! Listen Now to e001!
We are delighted to announce the inaugural episode of our new podcast: the Physical Culture Podcast. Our first episode explores a wide range of topics from physical health to the purpose of life to what a future with UBI might look like for our civilization, with hosts Gregory Roberts and Abram Hodgens. Listen now to…
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GenAI News q4.23: More Insane Generative AI earthquakes
I’m just going to knock these out without much editing. These are the must-see tech developments of genAI content generation for Q4 2023. Are you tracking with us? Because according to our very aggressive / optimistic AI progress forecast 2022-2030 which we authored eons ago in Nov 2022, we’re already at about 2029 on the…
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Self Replicating AI: Crabs on the Island, 1968
The year was 1987. I was 17 years old, and had just graduated high school. I boldly trekked down to Atlanta for an event called “the Atlanta Fantasy Fair” — essentially, one of the ancient ancestors of what we know today as “ComiCon” and its siblings. One late night, after getting my fill of fantasy…
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Sam Altman : The “Next Bill Gates?” for the 21st Century
“Who is Sam Altman?” Well… first, there was Bill Gates. . . . . (and Paul Allen) And then there was Steve Jobs. . . . . (and Steve Wozniak) And then there was Larry Page . . . . (and Sergey Brin) And then there was Mark Zuckerberg . . . . (and Adam…
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Weaponized Drones 2023: Death from Above
coming soon to a battlefield near you In this post, we will focus on one particular aspect of the global race towards Armageddon the deployment of fully-autonomous, AI-piloted, weaponized drones & swarms: that is, specifically, low-cost, “kamikaze”-style drones, which once deployed fly fully autonomously, either individually or more likely in swarms, armed with the purchasers…
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AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023
APOLOGIA: This post on the current state of the AI Arms Race is nowhere near complete. But it’s how I choose to publish. Honestly, these days, I have so many thoughts about AI in my head that I deem “ready to publish” that I could go 24/7 for 7 days straight and not be complete.…
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AI Robotics : get ready for Life-Changing Embodied AI 2025
This page will serve as my general notepad for all things Robot, AI Robotics, and “embodied AI” (which appears to be the latest buzzword to express the idea… an AI with a physical body, we get it). So I will be updating it regularly, for those interested. How AI Robots learn by trial and error…
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Script to Movie AI v0.9 alpha is Here… Thesis, Proven
SYNOPSIS: In 2022, “AI Art” was all the rage — pretty pictures and paintings and “virtual photographs” created in an instant by generative AI agents, guided by nothing more than tweet-length text prompts (mostly) written by humans. In 2023, we expect an even bigger wave to hit the internets: AI Movies, or generative video… aka…
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AI Evolution: What Happens 2021-2030 (a Roadmap to the Singularity)
The AI Evolution is upon us……and this cat is way way way out of the bag. 2022’s not even done yet, and what a year it’s been already:DALL•E 2, MidJourney 4, Imagen, DreamFusion… GPT-4? At this point, before things get any more insane (as, per Moore’s Law, they are pretty much guaranteed to do), its…
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AI Chess: A Brief History of a Complicated Game
As long as there have been computers, there have been programmers with dreams of building an app to play chess. Indeed, Chess playing programs have been one of the major testbeds for both programming skills and AI development since the 1950s. And they’ve received various levels of amusement and condemnation from the global chess-playing community…