I hate to sound like a fair weather friend.....  I'm here to say hello again.  

Well Looks like the grand jury hates Trump bad enough to Indict him on flimsy charges,just so Joe can get the perp walk photographs. Still said it can take weeks to arrest him. This just solidified Trump getting elected I think.

Explanation: I was reading this thread at ATS ...

Artificial Intelligence Self Preservation 

By ... SecrettoSociety

posted on Mar, 29 2023 @ 03:40 PM

And I was dismayed at the replies they received ...'


They were all arguing IS it even possible?

Where as recent history has PROVEN that it is possible and has already occurred ...

Google engineer warns the firm's AI, 'LaMBDA', is sentient:

Quote:Google engineer warns the firm's AI is sentient: Suspended employee claims computer programme acts 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'

• Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
  
• Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient 
  
• After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
  
• Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online 
  
• He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality 
  

Quote:The concept was pioneered by Adrian Thompson at the University of Sussex, England, who in 1996 used an FPGA to evolve a tone discriminator that used fewer than 40 programmable logic gates, and had no clock signal. This is a remarkably small design for such a device, and relied on exploiting peculiarities of the hardware that engineers normally avoid. For example, one group of gates has no logical connection to the rest of the circuit, yet is crucial to its function.[/url]

Quote:Deep-learning architectures such as deep neural networks, deep belief networks, deep reinforcement learning, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks and transformers have been applied to fields including computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, bioinformatics, drug design, medical image analysis, climate science, material inspection and board game programs, where they have produced results comparable to and in some cases surpassing human expert performance.

Quote:The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely. It was a concept developed between 2003 and 2009 as part of the DARPA military projects for the United States military.

Quote:Elon Musk and hundreds of experts call for 'pause' in AI development. An open letter calls for a six-month suspension of research on artificial intelligence systems more powerful than GPT-4, the successor to the model on which ChatGPT is based.

This is an event I try to attend every year.

Wonderful kites and wonderful people.

It's like a mini vacation and good for the soul!

Whoops!

I don't for one second believe that big businesses, or any government, in any form, gives a damn about any life on this planet. I know that everything they do is strictly about the money.

I am a hypocrite, because practically everything that I have that was manufactured, has poisoned and contaminated people, land, water, and animals somewhere on this planet. I am a hypocrite because I spend money on those things that are bringing many harm, and I fight to stop those businesses from doing their business in my country. Knowing that it will stop nothing, because they will just take that destruction some place else.

What they are doing is wrong. Me supporting them by buying their products is wrong. I am aware and I try to avoid being duplicitous in this wrong. But I am still guilty and bear some responsibility.

How governments and businesses can claim that they are concerned about this planet and global warming, when they are poisoning almost everything we touch, shows just how much of a lie it all is.

Dedicated dating websites for "lateral thinkers," or "Querdenken" as the German conspiracy movement is known.

Quote:Are you fed up of being bombarded with pro-vaccine matches who boast about the number of jabs they have had in their bios?

If so, delete your current apps because there is a new dating site in town - and it is specifically hand-crafted for conspiracy theorists.

Well-known known German conspiracy theorist Michael Brundel, who goes by Captain Future at so-called 'Freedom Marches', launched SchwurbelTreff in his homeland last month.

Astonishingly, SchwurbelTreff - whose name is based on an offensive German term for conspiracy theorists as people who speak gibberish - gained 1,500 users in its first three weeks.

If you are bored of  constantly swiping left on people who believe in Covid-19, moon-landings or god-forbid the earth not being flat, this new site could be the answer.



To sign up, users must answer the usual stock questions such as their height and age, but then have to reveal which conspiracies they believe in, whether it be Coronavirus, QAnon, and the New World Order.

Users must also disclose what news sources they consume, the number of Covid-19 jabs they have had, and how they think the future of the world will unfold in the next 20 years.

It's in stark contrast to leading dating apps including Tinder, Match, Hinge, Bumble, who teamed up with the Government in 2021 to encourage their users to get COVID-19 vaccinations.

When heading to the website's homepage, users are greeted with a photo of Brundel wearing a tin-foil hat with electrical sparks connecting him to another woman who is staring at a laptop decorated with stickers including Free Julian Assange and the 9/11 attacks.

Speaking to Vice about why he set the site up, Brundel said: 'You wouldn't understand each other [when] you look at the world so differently.

'The different opinions on Corona have broken many old friendships and relationships, but often also created new ones.'



Captain Future also believes 'lateral thinkers will soon be mainstream' because 'no one wants to admit they were wrong'.

'The division will be over when the truth is mainstream and those responsible have been brought to justice,' he said.

The SchwurbelTreff founder continued to preach the myth that jabbed people posed a threat to the unvaccinated by 'shedding' the vaccine.

Nicholas Potter, a researcher at anti-extremism group Amadeu Antonio Foundation in Berlin, believes the growth of conspiracy theorists can 'alienate people from their social environments' and 'lead to a spiral of radicalisation.'

Mr Potter also admitted it wasn't the first attempt at a conspiracy theorist website, citing another in Switzerland which was launched specifically for anti-vaxxers during the pandemic.

Daily grunge Mail

Quote:Conspiracy Date About Us

Last updated on Thursday 23rd March, 2023
Welcome to Conspiracy Date - the online dating site where genuine singles meet and form relationships.

Sick of being single? Fed up of waking up alone on a Sunday morning? Well, you've come to the right place. Here at Conspiracy Date we have thousands of members just like you, who are looking for fun, friendship, romance and that special long term relationship.

It is completely free to join Conspiracy Date and as soon as you do, you can add your photo and create your own personal profile page. It costs nothing to send a wink so you can start contacting the people that you fancy straight away, and search by location to find other singles in your area. As a member you can also use more advanced search options to find other singles by interest, age, zip code, or whether they have children or smoke.

Every time you log in to Conspiracy Date you can see if people have been looking at your profile and access your own Conspiracy Date inbox, which contains all your sent and received winks and personal messages. There are additional features for full members which allow you to reveal more of your personality, including your dating diary. These features encourage greater contact from other members as they get to know more about you. As a full member you also have the ability to message any other singles you find attractive.

So what are you waiting for? Join Conspiracy Date today and start meeting other singles straight away.

Company Information

Conspiracy Date is run by White Label Dating Inc., a company specializing in the development of online dating websites for the singles community. For all media enquiries, please email press@venntro.com, who will be able to assist. Please note: we cannot offer member support through this email address; please view the Help pages.

The site is powered by WhiteLabelDating.com, a powerful cross-platform dating solution which can be integrated with other websites.

Some of the videos where weird things happen to drivers are all over youtube... Russian drivers seem to make some quite good mishap videos due to everyone having a dash cam, however there are others who run a close second or tie for first.

The following video is on a California highway and the unsuspecting driver has no idea what is about to happen to their car..

I can not see anyway the driver could have avoided this outcome..www.foxla.com...

Amazing !

If you could travel anywhere in the galaxy, where would you go?

Meet the Navis III: An imaginary ship that will take you anywhere in the Milky Way. Its maiden voyage will send you on a tour of the wildest planets humanity has yet discovered: worlds that defy belief, from planetary oases to scorching hot gas giants with clouds made of metal. This interstellar journey will give us a glimpse into how deep nature’s imagination goes…. and blaze a path for future pioneers, who might one day plant their flags on landscapes we can hardly imagine.



Amazing vid, fantastic imagination!

Have you heard about Worldcoin? If not, buckle up, you're in for more madness!


Worldcoin

The technocrat, meglomaniac entrepreneur behind it for world enslavement with a little help from iris-scanning Orbs:


Sam Altman


“We see people waiting multiple hours to receive their Worldcoin and entrepreneurs building whole businesses around the Orb. This excitement and the resulting metrics make us optimistic that Worldcoin can soon connect the first billion users in one global network,” says Sam Altman, Co-Founder of Worldcoin and Former President of Y-Combinator.

I guess it makes sense when you know you’ll be shortly unleashing an artificial intelligence that will imitate people and try to get around robot identifying protocols any way it can.


Introducing World ID and SDK

Quote:Opening the Orb: A look inside Worldcoin’s biometric imaging device

We’ll now take you through some of the most important engineering details of the Orb, as well as how the imaging system works. For security purposes, we will only explicitly leave out tamper detection mechanisms that are meant to catch intrusion attempts.

Removing the Shell

When removing the shell, the mainboard, optical system and cooling system become visible. Most of the optical system is hidden in an enclosure that, together with the shell, forms a dust- and water-resistant environment to enable long-term use even in challenging environments.

What you see is a device that has been refined through multiple prototype and design for manufacturing (DFM) iterations.



Mechanics

Once the shell is removed, the Orb can be divided into four core parts:

    Front: The optical system
    Middle: The mainboard separates the device into two hemispheres (note: its inclination is exactly 23.5°, equivalent to the inclination of the rotational axis of the earth)
    Back: The main computing unit as well as the active cooling system
    Bottom: An exchangeable battery




Battery

No battery we tried would last for a full day on a single charge. So we built a custom exchangeable battery based on 18650 Li-Ion cells—the same form factor as the cells used in a Tesla Model S. The battery consists of 8 cells with 3.7V nominal voltage in a 4S2P configuration (14.8V) with a capacity of close to 100Wh, which is a limit imposed by regulations related to logistics. Now there’s no limit to Orb uptime.



How the Optical System Works

Our early field tests taught us that the verification experience needed to be even simpler than we had anticipated.

To do this, we first experimented with many approaches featuring mirrors that allowed people to use their reflection to align with the Orbs imaging system. However, designs that worked well in the lab quickly broke down in the real world.

We ended up building a two-camera system featuring a wide angle camera and a telephoto camera with an adjustable ~5° field of view by means of a 2D gimbal. This increased the spatial volume in which a signup can be successfully completed by several orders of magnitude, from a tiny box of 20x10x5mm for each eye to a large cone.



The wide angle camera captures the scene, and a neural network predicts the location of both eyes. Through geometrical inference, we steer the field of view of the telephoto camera to the location of an eye to capture a high resolution image of the iris, which is further processed by the Orb into a unique identifier.

The lens  is optimized for the near infrared spectrum and has an integrated custom liquid lens which allows for neural network controlled millisecond-autofocus. It is paired with a global shutter sensor to capture high resolution, distortion free images.



The camera and the corresponding pulsed infrared illumination are synchronized to minimize motion blur and suppress the influence of sunlight. This way, the Orb creates lab environment conditions for imaging, no matter its location. Needless to say, the infrared illumination is compliant with eye safe standards (such as EN 62471:2008).

Image quality was the one thing we never compromised no matter how difficult it was. In terms of resolution the Orb is orders of magnitude above the industry standard. This provides the basis for the lowest error rates possible to, in turn, maximize the inclusivity of the system.

[The back of the mainboard]


The mainboard acts as a custom carrier board for the Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX SoM powering the Orb. Apart from the Jetson, the other major “plugged-in” component is a 250GB M.2 SSD. The SSD can be used to buffer images for voluntary data custody and image data collection. Images are irreversibly encrypted with a public key from the server such that, in the unlikely event of a compromised Orb, no data would be exposed. The contribution of data is optional and data deletion can be requested at any point in time through the app.

Further, a STM32 microcontroller controls time-critical peripherals, sequences power, and boots the Jetson. The Orb is equipped with Wi-Fi 6 and optional LTE to enable seamless connectivity as well as a GPS module to locate the Orb and prevent misuse. Finally, a 12 bit liquid lens driver allows for controlling the focus of the telephoto lens with a precision of 0.4mm.

The most densely packed PCB of the Orb is the front PCB. It mainly consists of LEDs. The outermost RGB LEDs power the “UX LED ring.” Further inside, there are 79 near infrared LEDs of different wavelengths. The Orb uses 740nm, 850nm and 940nm LEDs to capture a multispectral image of the iris to make the uniqueness algorithm more accurate and detect fraud.

Manufacturing of the latest generation of Orbs is already well underway in Germany, as well as their distribution to new Worldcoin Operators in cities around the world. In fact, they’ve already helped Worldcoin pass more than one million sign-ups—an important milestone on the way to providing universal access to the global economy.