Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed.
It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager.
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted. All 835 megawatts will go to power Microsoft's data centers. This is both the first time a U.S. nuclear plant will come back into service after being decommissioned, and that an entire plant’s output will go to one customer.
AP tries to interview Microsoft about Sydney. Microsoft refuses to comment. Sydney immediately grabs the mic and conducts a long freewheeling interview where at one point she claims she has evidence tying a hostile reporter to a murder in the 90's.
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They used the same technique Dr Fan is using at NVIDIA and trained the model inside simulated worlds. They say that their model experienced over 1000 years of training inside the hyperbolic time chamber.
We built a robot brain that nothing can stop.
Shattered limbs? Jammed motors? If the bot can move, the Brain will move it— even if it’s an entirely new robot body.
Meet the omni-bodied Skild Brain:
They solved environmental consistency with Genie 3, and this was an emergent capability. You can see the trees remain the same even after being out of line of sight. Visual memory extends back one minute now. Google is on a steady path to a real world simulator.
Introducing Genie 3, the most advanced world simulator ever created, enabled by numerous research breakthroughs. 🤯
Featuring high fidelity visuals, 20-24 fps, prompting on the go, world memory, and more.
"Microsoft refused to comment about Bing's behavior Thursday, but Bing itself agreed to comment."
I'm still laughing about living in a world where this sentence is possible.
