Friday, March 22, 2024

Imagine this technology online for any high school kid to use.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/03/21/ukraine-rolls-out-target-seeking-terminator-drones/?sh=319e3db53b44

Ukraine Rolls Out Target-Seeking Terminator Drones

A video from Ukrainian drone fundraiser Serhii Sternenko released on March 20th demonstrates new technology: an attack drone which locks on with machine vision and does not require a human pilot.

In the video an FPV attack drone with automatic target recognition homes in on a Russian tank from long distance. Even after the video link is lost, the drone successfully completes the attack.



(Related)

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/swarm-clouds-on-the-horizon-exploring-the-future-of-drone-swarm-proliferation/

SWARM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON? EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF DRONE SWARM PROLIFERATION

A 2020 New America report cataloged thirty-eight states with armed drone programs, twenty-eight with programs in development, and eleven that have used drones in combat. In less than four years since that report was published, drones’ rapidly growing influence on battlefields from Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine to Gaza has almost certainly increased states’ interest in developing armed drone programs. As such, existing programs are likely to expand, new programs created, and new states pursuing and using drones. This explosion in drone interest comes as global warfare is entering a third age of drone warfare, defined by autonomy, saturation attacks, increased precision and range, and full-spectrum drone warfare across land, sea, and air.





This will no doubt be interesting...

https://www.bespacific.com/heres-the-u-s-governments-antitrust-case-against-apple/

Here’s the U.S. Government’s Antitrust Case Against Apple

404 Media: “Thursday [March 21, 2024], the Department of Justice and 16 states filed a massive, years-long antitrust case against Apple. Ahead of the DOJ’s press conference, 404 Media has obtained the full suit from PACER, the federal legal database. As a public service, we are providing the document here: We have not yet reviewed the full implications of the document. This post will be updated…”



(Related) Some push back…

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/u-s-versus-apple-a-first-reaction/

U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction





Perspective.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-chain-of-thought-reasoning-helps-neural-networks-compute-20240321/

How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute

Large language models do better at solving problems when they show their work. Researchers are beginning to understand why.

While these systems might ace questions involving a few steps of arithmetic, they’ll often flub problems involving many steps, like calculating the sum of two large numbers. But in 2022, a team of Google researchers showed that asking language models to generate step-by-step solutions enabled the models to solve problems that had previously seemed beyond their reach. Their technique, called chain-of-thought prompting, soon became widespread, even as researchers struggled to understand what makes it work.

Now, several teams have explored the power of chain-of-thought reasoning by using techniques from an arcane branch of theoretical computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s the latest chapter in a line of research that uses complexity theory to study the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of language models. These efforts clarify where we should expect models to fail, and they might point toward new approaches to building them.





Tools & Techniques. Looking for a forensic tool.

https://www.bespacific.com/the-8-best-ai-image-detector-tools/

The 8 Best AI Image Detector Tools

MakeUseOf: “Key Takeaways

  • Hive Moderation offers a free and quick detector tool for AI images and texts, including a browser extension for Google Chrome.

  • Illuminarty provides a simple AI image detector with a premium plan for detailed analysis and API access.

  • AI or Not is an easy-to-use tool for detecting AI images with both free and paid plans available.

  • V7’s Fake Profile Detector Chrome extension helps you spot AI-generated profile pictures.

  • Hugging Face is good at detecting AI images created by older AI models, with an upgraded, more complex version available as well.

  • Content at Scale lets you quickly identify whether an image is AI-generated or human-made.

  • Is It AI is an AI image detector that uses percentages to demonstrate human or AI origin.

  • Fake Image Detector quickly detects AI-generated images and also offers Error Level Analysis for accuracy.”



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