It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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No Matter How Much Great Literature We Feed Into AI, It Cannot Feel “Reading makes you more empathic.” We’ll all heard variations on this mantra. As Barack Obama mused during an interview with the novelist Marilynne Robinson, “the most important stuff I’ve learned …

Naomi S. Baron considers the role of chatbots in contemporary literacy: “With AI, where does the prospect for empathy come in? In a word, nowhere.”

At S.F. city hearing, Navy says: Don’t panic about plutonium The Navy was chided on Monday for failing to report elevated levels of plutonium for nearly a year. But those levels, it insists, are safe.

And I was getting worried....

Baye Area Maker Faire 2025, Hip Monsters [embedyt].

This weekend see HipMonsters.com live at the Bay Area Maker Faire, Sept 26-28, 2025. See our robots in action, learn about the dangers of AI and how you can protect yourself.
#makerfaire #MFBA25 #AI #robotics #LLM
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What is ‘AI psychosis’ and how can ChatGPT affect your mental health? Mental health experts say cases of people forming delusional beliefs after hours with AI chatbots are concerning and offer tips on how to help someone affected.

AI is dangerous but not in the way most people expected.

#AI #LLM #EthicalAI

Join us for the unveiling of R-EVOLUTION Thursday, April 10 for food, drinks, music, and a breathtaking light show. The festivities begin at 5pm, the light show is best enjoyed after sunset. Don’t miss this unforgettable night of art, community, and illumination.
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The Civic Center Soundtrack series continues tomorrow w/ free live music!

Tomorrow's lineup:
12pm-Three Flower Jam
1pm-Stephanie Woodford
2pm-Aireene Espiritu

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Date: Thu 4/10
Time: 12-3pm
Location: Fulton Plaza
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Autonomous Robots Discuss Why Humans Sing YouTube video by Robot Freedom

This week Number Two and Number Three wonder why humans sing.

#llm #artificialintelligence #ai #steampunk

I broke Bing but loving their Panda.
#bingdown

Brain-inspired neural networks reveal insights into biological basis of relational learning Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in the world. This ability, known as "relational learning," is widely regarded a...

It is great to see ML being more commonly used in biology and psychology research papers. ML enables a level of reproducibility and control which is difficult to achieve using other methodologies.

Intro to Our Workshop!, Hip Monsters In this video  Ted from the HipMonster's team shows our workshop and describes how we train our robots.

We just posted a video tour of our workshop and give a quick overview of how we train our autonomous robots while we work.
#robotics #AI #LLM #Maker

Chinese New Year opening ceremony celebrations in San Francisco. 🐉🧧

Major BART delays after vehicle crashes onto tracks, killing driver Transit agency staff were working to set up a bus bridge between affected stations Thursday morning.

Major BART delays after vehicle crashes onto tracks, killing driver

Does www.trustcafe.io work?

Are you storm ready?

We have free sandbags available for SF residents and businesses for added protection.

Our Operations Yard distribution center is open 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., Monday - Saturday, at Kansas and Marin streets.

Learn more (and check the website for updates): sfpublicworks.org/sandbags

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches Textbook published by MIT Press (2024)

The first textbook on multi-agent reinforcement learning is out - a landmark for the field, the first textbook covering game-theoretic foundations with state-of-the-art deep learning! Congrats to its authors Stefano Albrecht , LukasSchaefer and Filippos Christianos

More details: www.marl-book.com

I cut my index finger. First step, put a Band-Aid on it. Next step, try to remember the password to my computer.

A book that reads in block sans serif font, "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." The text is red, switching to gold for the words 'Commodore 64'. Cover bottom, a Commodore 64 - a light brown all-in-one microcomputer with dark brown keys - appears. In the center, a gold PCB in the shape of a human head radiates gold wires in the way wires might radiate from a chip, creating the silhouette of a head; in the center and neck of the head-shaped PCB, chips appear.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64 (Source.)

80 years later, Glenn Miller's sudden disappearance remains unsolved Glenn Miller was the swing era's biggest star. Then, he vanished without a trace.

Just started playing An Album Of Outstanding Arrangements by Glenn Miller.

Glad we have weather alerts but can’t get back to sleep. This is probably the earliest everyone in SF has woken up on a Saturday.

Tornado warning in SF? Crazy weather.

A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.

I so want this for my voicemail. Honeypots for scammers.

Is it just me or does it seem like the context is now far more important than the prompts in llama 3.x verse llama 2?
#llm #artificalintelligence

Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.

Allowing a certain name or phrase to always break ChatGPT outputs could cause a lot of trouble down the line for certain ChatGPT users, opening them up for adversarial attacks and limiting the usefulness of the system. #ML #AI #ChatGPT

Added this provocative note to my Llama 3.3 post concerning the CO2 impact of training the model, which Meta calculated as 11,390 tons CO2eq

"I believe that's equivalent to around 20 fully loaded passenger flights from New York to London (at ~550 tons per flight)." simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/l...

Google AI Releases Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM): A Machine Learning Framework Designed to Power Downstream Geospatial Modeling Google AI Releases Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM): A Machine Learning Framework Designed to Power Downstream Geospatial Modeling

This looks promising. I can wait to try it out.
#ai #data

This is a neat new variant on RAG - no vectors, not even full-text search, instead showing the model a header hierarchy and giving it a tool to read the relevant sections

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/r...

Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness; proves reality does not exist until measured http://phy.so/351940527 http://t.co/BjOhcGrwTs

Watching @karaswisher.bsky.social interview Yuval Harari about his new book helped me nail down my top concern about LLMs (beyond creating hordes of minions for nefarious uses). For me, it is that although LLMs mimic empathy, empathy has no sway over them. How about you? #AI #LLM