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Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
4 days agoHow AI could destroy - or save - humanity, according to former AI insiders
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform various sectors but also poses risks like inequality, job loss, and increased power for governments and tech companies.
Remote teams
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoGig workers in 50+ countries are filming themselves doing chores to train humanoid robots for $15 an hour - Silicon Canals
A new gig economy is emerging where workers film household tasks to train humanoid robots, highlighting economic disparities in compensation versus value extracted.
#generative-ai
Women in technology
fromFast Company
5 days agoAI isn't just reshaping productivity and threatening to kill jobs. It's changing how we lead, communicate, and treat each other. It's also creating a new gender gap
Generative AI is reshaping communication, trust, and cultural interactions beyond productivity and efficiency concerns.
#humanoid-robots
Artificial intelligence
fromTechRepublic
2 weeks agoHumanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper - But Enterprise Costs Are Just Getting Started
Falling hardware costs and AI advancements are enabling real-world deployments of humanoid robots, shifting focus to operational infrastructure and software differentiation.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechRepublic
2 weeks agoHumanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper - But Enterprise Costs Are Just Getting Started
Falling hardware costs and AI advancements are enabling real-world deployments of humanoid robots, shifting focus to operational infrastructure and software differentiation.
Artificial intelligence
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoJapan is deploying robots not to replace workers but because there are no workers left to replace - Silicon Canals
Japan's deployment of AI-powered robots is driven by demographic challenges rather than efficiency, aiming to sustain essential services amid labor shortages.
Silicon Valley
fromBig Think
2 weeks agoIt was never about AI (we are not our tools)
Wall Street and Silicon Valley have created a self-reinforcing system that prioritizes short-term efficiency and cost-cutting over human welfare, treating job elimination as progress while pursuing AI-driven automation with ideological fervor.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoThe first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress
The inquiry was like thousands of others. Somebody had potentially cool films they thought might interest the Library of Congress. But it was brand new for Jason Evans Groth... In September, he stepped outside the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, to meet Bill and Mary McFarland, who had driven from Michigan with about 40 strips of celluloid that had once belonged to Bill's great-grandfather.
Independent films
fromOpen Culture
1 month agoHow Fritz Lang's Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
A vast, miserable proletariat squanders its days in meaningless toil. Society is under the control of ultra-wealthy business magnates. In order to pacify the underclass, the ruling class pins its hopes on a technological solution: artificial intelligence. Welcome to the year 2026, as envisioned in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Film
Artificial intelligence
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThe $50 AI revolution: Why smaller models built for sovereignty may matter more than the trillion-dollar arms race - Silicon Canals
Frugal AI is emerging in countries like India and Kenya, focusing on smaller, efficient models due to the high costs of frontier AI.
Film
fromArs Technica
1 month agoThe AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Gore Verbinski returns with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, a darkly satirical time-loop sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell that warns against technology addiction while following a time traveler recruiting diner patrons to prevent an AI apocalypse.
fromComputerworld
6 days agoBeware of headlines touting impossible AI benefits, analysts warn
The savings disappear the moment you hit real-world complexity. Disparate data sources and messy inputs, ambiguous situations without clear rule sets, or actually any domain where the rules aren't already obvious. And someone still has to write all those rules.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
3 weeks agoRise of model context protocol in the agentic era
Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables communication between AI agents and external data sources, functioning as a protocol for LLMs similar to how APIs facilitate data transfer between systems, but designed specifically for AI agents rather than developers.
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