Big Tech boasted about AI's role in the Middle East War, yet all they delivered was failure.
https://futurology.today/post/10779578
Big Tech boasted about AI's role in the Middle East War, yet all they delivered was failure. - Futurology Today
“Furthermore, it has tailored functionality to support military planning
workflows, report synthesis and generation, predictive analytics for logistics
and sustainment, red-teaming analysis of adversary positioning, personnel
management, and medical supply lines,” Stanley (Pentagon artificial intelligence
chief) wrote. “The Grok Gov Model offers features unique to XAI that are found
in no other frontier AI model,” he added. Prior to Iran, the US had also faced
off against the Houthis & supplied the munitions for Gaza. Big Tech also boasted
about how it would help there. All three of these have been military defeats. In
one case, all the opponents are in a patch of land only 10 times the size of
Central Park, and they still aren’t defeated.
So what are we to make of all these hyperbolic claims for AI? Has Grok secretly
gone rogue & wants Iran to win? That would make sense of what we are seeing.
Pentagon AI chief: Musk’s Grok chatbot used to launch thousands of missiles at
Iran
[https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5928204-pentagon-musk-grok-chatbot-iran-strikes/]
Researchers in Liverpool propose a way to map Near Earth's asteroids with just a €50 million budget and cubesats.
https://futurology.today/post/10715986
Researchers in Liverpool propose a way to map Near Earth's asteroids with just a €50 million budget and cubesats. - Futurology Today
Lemmy
Human understanding of AI can't keep up with its advancement, researchers say.
https://futurology.today/post/10667713
Human understanding of AI can't keep up with its advancement, researchers say. - Futurology Today
Lemmy
The rate of sea level rise has doubled in 10 years. In 2023 alone, global sea level rise was 4.3 mm.
https://futurology.today/post/10625147
The rate of sea level rise has doubled in 10 years. In 2023 alone, global sea level rise was 4.3 mm. - Futurology Today
So that means we can expect the sea to rise 5 cm (almost 2 inches) over the next
ten years. More frequent flooding, increased coastal erosion, saltwater
intrusion, greater storm surge damage … The good news? The transition to
renewables is well underway, and the ever-mounting costs imposed on society from
fossil fuel damage will help speed that transition. ‘Severe’ stress on oceans as
rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/un-world-ocean-assessment-severe-stress-sea-level-rise-doubles-pollution-fishing-climate]
A participant in a landmark clinical trial has been given a cellular-reprogramming treatment that aims to rejuvenate damaged cells in the eye.
https://futurology.today/post/10620234
A participant in a landmark clinical trial has been given a cellular-reprogramming treatment that aims to rejuvenate damaged cells in the eye. - Futurology Today
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Hair-size microrobots combine three cancer-fighting functions in preclinical animal tests.
https://futurology.today/post/10605955
Hair-size microrobots combine three cancer-fighting functions in preclinical animal tests. - Futurology Today
Lemmy
AI-designed universal vaccine clears first human trial, targets future coronavirus threats with needle-free delivery.
https://futurology.today/post/10589625
AI-designed universal vaccine clears first human trial, targets future coronavirus threats with needle-free delivery. - Futurology Today
Lemmy
Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness: Global clean power is within our reach, yet factories sit idle.
https://futurology.today/post/10576731
Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness: Global clean power is within our reach, yet factories sit idle. - Futurology Today
“After a huge surge in investment since 2020, Chinese companies have the
capacity to produce a vast 1,000 gigawatts of panels per annum. The world cannot
absorb the supply.” Even if peace broke out tomorrow, it would be 2027 before
the economic effects of the Middle East War were normalized. As a settlement
looks unlikely, we can assume 2027’s story will be one of every growing global
economic dislocation. Yet as one fuel source shrinks, another goes into surplus.
Has the world woken up to the urgency it needs to “fix” itself to work around
the consequences of the New Middle East? If oil needs to be rationed, and some
of it is needed to make fertilizer that will prevent famines in 2027-28. Then
switching to Chinese renewables becomes an urgent imperative.
Biohybrid microrobots repair spinal cord by combining stem cells with magnetoelectric nanoparticles.
https://futurology.today/post/10575675
Biohybrid microrobots repair spinal cord by combining stem cells with magnetoelectric nanoparticles. - Futurology Today
Lemmy
Popular GLP-1 drug may slow down biological aging, analysis indicates.
https://futurology.today/post/10541058
Popular GLP-1 drug may slow down biological aging, analysis indicates. - Futurology Today
Wow, what can’t these GLP-1 drugs do? Not only making you thin, but boosts for
cardiovascular health, blood pressure & inflammation related illness &
apparently improving outlooks for some cancers, too. As they are now entering
their generic era in territories around the world (India, Brazil & Canada in
2026), we should start to see dramatic health improvements in these countries.
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