AI in the news and other topics #

• Governments using AI
  • Anduril, AI in govt, "Lattice" sensor fusion Skynet
    • Anduril
    • Podcast
  • South Korea social credit system
    • South Korean crosswalk uses radar, lasers to stop phone-related wrecks
  • The Kootenai Metropolitan Planning Organization (KMPO) is considering a regional traffic management center that would study traffic flow and congestion in real time
• Elon Musk using AI to understand the universe
• Self-driving cars
  • Add-on kits by comma.ai
  • Golf carts
  • Lawn mowers
  • Delivery bots demo'ed at Think Big, starship
  • Immobilizing self-driving cars with cone hack
• LK99
  • Hoverboards?
  • Whiplash from news reports back and forth
• Book review of Player piano
  • What are the implications of AI dominated world where computers do work for us? post AI, where does meaning come from?
    • Industrial society and its future, "power process"
• Book review of A People's History of the United States
• Being a multi-planet society
  • Living on Mars or an astroid belt
  • Self replicating robots in space
    • Von Neumann probe
      • We are legion (we are bob), A book about the von neumann probe self replicating with consciousness.
  • Sending DNA
    • Plot of Horizon Zero Dawn
• What would AI be able to see differently than humans? Quantum computing?
• Can AI ever be sentient?
  • Meat computers
  • Vote! Yes (3), No (3+), Undecided (2)

Published 09 Aug 2023