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🚁 An Autonomous Drone Can Track You in the Dark Now
Ts Yotov
September 26, 2023
In today’s edition:
🗞️ Quick News - An Autonomous Drone Can Track You in the Dark Now
📚 Nerd section - How to Use FreedomGPT and more
🗞️ Quick News 🗞️
🚁 This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You in the Dark - Startup Skydio has launched the X10 drone, designed for police use with capabilities like infrared tracking and high-speed chases in mind, sparking concerns from civil liberties groups about the lack of regulations for drone usage in sensitive situations.
🤖 Security companies are embracing robots to tackle labour shortages, with firms like ADT investing in robotics for consistent monitoring, and features like remote operation and autonomous patrolling become more prevalent.
☢️ Microsoft aims to harness nuclear energy for its AI data centers (according to a job posting), exploring the use of microreactors and Small Modular Reactors to address the immense energy needs of AI models, amidst growing environmental concerns over the vast energy consumption of generative AIs.
🧰 Erudit raises $10M to monitor workplaces for ‘misalignment’, sparking debate on privacy concerns and potential biases in interpretation.
📧 ControlNet, an AI technique producing optical illusions with "hidden messages" in images, has gone viral, but experts believe its real-world application is less about subliminal branding and more about creating intriguing visuals for ads.
💰 Alexa's future is pay-to-play, departing Amazon exec predicts. AI as subscription.
📚 Nerd section 📚
💵 How to Use FreedomGPT to Install Free ChatGPT Alternatives Locally on Your Computer - to get some uncensored responses and privacy.
🎞️ The Hollywood at Home: DragNUWA is a groundbreaking AI model designed for controllable video generation, blending text, image, and intricate trajectory data. It transcends previous limitations in the video generation field by providing semantic meaning via textual descriptions, visual depth via images, and complex object interactions and movements via a novel trajectory control system.
📚 One half-day of training using a few hundred dollars yields similar results to mainstream large models, open-source and commercial-free domain-specific LLM solution. The Colossal-AI team has innovatively utilized LLaMA-2, achieving high-performance results with minimal cost, using just 0.0085 trillion tokens of data and a few hundred dollars.
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