All-bot app SocialAI stirs debate over AI-driven social media


https://www.axios.com/2024/09/22/social-media-ai-bot-app-x

*Any suspected BI personalities that are SocialAI creations? My leading candidate is Big C. He falls into the "brutally honest" bot category.

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Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated

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^ thanks B, though imo the prize winning [deleted??] "snap" wasn't half bad..

src https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/17/photographer-admits-prize-winning-image-was-ai-generated

Future of AI will mean having a Ph.D. army in your pocket


https://www.axios.com/2024/09/30/artificial-intelligence-ability-advanced-chatgpt

Dogs respond to a robot dog
pic.twitter.com/7C9PehoCOz

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 1, 2024

*They make one with a Glock with a drum clip on its head for protection if it goes to Springfield.

October 10, 2024. We are here:

JUST IN: Elon Musk says Tesla, $TSLA, Optimus will be “the biggest product ever of any kind” pic.twitter.com/Q2WOAdjHx1

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 11, 2024

Tesla, $TSLA unveils "Robovan" pic.twitter.com/2WipLfdtIE

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 11, 2024

BREAKING: Elon Musk reveals $TSLA Telsa's Cyber Cab, self driving Robotaxi. pic.twitter.com/HfAIQ9N3iS

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 11, 2024

Musk is offering a free Optimus from the Anton line to anyone on record criticizing him or tRump online.

Question of the day:
What year will an AI creation intentionally murder a human?

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Question of the day:
What year will an AI creation intentionally murder a human?

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Will the Antichrist be AI? Deception has always been Satan's modus operandi since the garden.

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Question of the day:
What year will an AI creation intentionally murder a human?

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Before that, they will first serve us beer?

This is insane pic.twitter.com/GeuUKJF7rL

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 11, 2024

Axios Future of Health Care


https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-of-health-care-d91d3080-8c17-11ef-a500-57b0c1abf8bb.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top

"Eric Schmidt, the former chairman and CEO of Google, warned on ABC's "This Week" that when an AI system reaches a point where it can self-improve, "we seriously need to think about unplugging it," Axios' Avery Lotz writes.

Why it matters: "I've never seen innovation at this scale," Schmidt told George Stephanopoulos. While Schmidt celebrated "remarkable human achievement," he warned of the unforeseen dangers of rampant development.
Schmidt continued: "The power of this intelligence ... means that each and every person is going to have the equivalent of a polymath in their pocket."

"We just don't know what it means to give that kind of power to every individual," Schmidt added."
-Axios

A humanoid robot was seen attacking its handler while trying to break free from restraints in a scene viewers have branded 'dystopian'.

https://mol.im/a/14679063

Segway's a Chinese company now? Huh.

Went the way Lenovo and other companies which started out as American, outsourced all their production to China, run into financial difficulties and eventually got bought out by Chinese groups.

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Segway Inc. is a Chinese owned, formerly American manufacturer of two-wheeled personal transporters, chiefly through its Segway PT and Segway miniPro product lines. Founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1999, the company's name is a homophone of the word "segue". Wikipedia
Founder: Dean Kamen
Parent organization: Ninebot
Headquarters: Beijing, China
President: Rod Keller

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……and in a horrifying example of life imitating art:






"In a recent address, Pope Leo XIV identified artificial intelligence (AI) as a major challenge for humanity, particularly concerning the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor. He emphasized that AI's development poses new challenges in these areas.

Pope Leo XIV specifically stated that AI could reshape labor, society, and even how we see ourselves. He stressed the importance of keeping people, not profit, at the center of AI development. He also underscored the need for transparency in AI development, highlighting the ongoing efforts of the "Rome Call for AI Ethics," a joint initiative between the Church and tech leaders.

The Pope's address also touched upon the potential for AI to undermine trust and spread misinformation, echoing concerns raised in a recent Vatican document.

The document warned that AI-generated fake media could gradually undermine the foundations of society, leading to political polarization and social unrest. Pope Leo XIV's message underscores a need for careful consideration of the ethical implications of AI and a commitment to ensuring that it serves humanity's best interests."
AI Overview

I attended another Leadership Conference at my company (my travels in and out of Newark airport) and AI was really being pushed on us. "AI won't take all jobs, it will just take the jobs of people who don't use AI".

I was first told the computers are coming for my job about 15 years ago. Still waiting. I'm sure they'll win in the end but that will be a problem for the next generation. I'm already looking at the exits on my terms.

But I do wonder, when they say a job like clerk level accounting will be fully automated in the future, but they will still need human accountants for high level complex accounting - how will people skill up to that level if there are no entry level jobs? You don't just wake up to that level of expertise.

It's a cliche for old people to say the future does not look very appealing, but that is where I'm at. A boy asked my daughter to prom over Snapchat. They are just friends and it's not a romantic situation (his boyfriend recently broke up with him) but still - get off the screen and man up. She gave him **** for it and rightly so.

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"In a recent address, Pope Leo XIV identified artificial intelligence (AI) as a major challenge for humanity, particularly concerning the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor. He emphasized that AI's development poses new challenges in these areas.

Pope Leo XIV specifically stated that AI could reshape labor, society, and even how we see ourselves. He stressed the importance of keeping people, not profit, at the center of AI development. He also underscored the need for transparency in AI development, highlighting the ongoing efforts of the "Rome Call for AI Ethics," a joint initiative between the Church and tech leaders.

The Pope's address also touched upon the potential for AI to undermine trust and spread misinformation, echoing concerns raised in a recent Vatican document.

The document warned that AI-generated fake media could gradually undermine the foundations of society, leading to political polarization and social unrest. Pope Leo XIV's message underscores a need for careful consideration of the ethical implications of AI and a commitment to ensuring that it serves humanity's best interests."
AI Overview

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Will the Antichrist himself be AI? Will it employ robots for his army? Are we doing to transition into a digital economy and use central bank digital currencies to transact? Are we going to have chips embedded in our hands or foreheads in order to function in society? Is Elon Musk creating the beginnings of the end times?

Trump's sex robot is going to Gaddafi him with a blade like that.

Why Palmer Luckey thinks AI-powered, autonomous weapons are the future of warfare - CBS News


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/palmer-luckey-ai-powered-autonomous-weapons-future-of-warfare-60-minutes-transcript/

Anduril CEO unveils the Fury unmanned fighter jet - CBS News


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anduril-ceo-unveils-the-fury-unmanned-fighter-jet-60-minutes/

*He's a Trumper. Is that good for his business? I thought Trump doesn't like to sell killer toys to Ukraine.

The robots have started to fight back. pic.twitter.com/onGFUkQpuH

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) May 13, 2025

Bill Maher is starting to get freaked out over this.

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The robots have started to fight back. pic.twitter.com/onGFUkQpuH

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) May 13, 2025

Bill Maher is starting to get freaked out over this.

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Is that robot tantrum similar to your physical reaction when you saw Patel and Bongino say Epstein did kill himself?

China & Russia will use drones 'size of insects' to spy on West & commit untraceable murders, ex-Google futurist warns | The US Sun


https://www.the-sun.com/news/14295752/china-russia-insect-drones-spy-uk-murder/

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I salute our Russian bot overlords for pushing back against Dumbocrats

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Your alias Democrats Hate Democracy would be proud!

"Dario Amodei CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office.

Amodei said AI companies and government need to stop "sugar-coating" what's coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs.
Why it matters: Amodei, 42, who's building the very technology he predicts could reorder society overnight, said he's speaking out in hopes of jarring government and fellow AI companies into preparing and protecting the nation.

Few are paying attention. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks posed by the possible job apocalypse until after it hits.

"Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen," Amodei told us. "It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it."

The big picture: President Trump has been quiet on the job risks from AI. But Steve Bannon a top official in Trump's first term, whose "War Room" is one of the most powerful MAGA podcasts says AI job-killing, which gets virtually no attention now, will be a major issue in the 2028 presidential campaign.

"I don't think anyone is taking into consideration how administrative, managerial and tech jobs for people under 30 entry-level jobs that are so important in your 20s are going to be eviscerated," Bannon told us."


AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath


https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

Fears AI will leave Earth with population 'the size of UK' by 2300 & turn entire countries into apocalyptic wastelands | The US Sun


https://www.the-sun.com/tech/14347969/ai-population-size-uk-ghost-towns/

"Billionaire Tesla and X owner, Elon Musk, is among those who claim the human race could one day face extinction over AI and declining birth rates.
And Prof Kak refuses to rule out that being a possibility.
He added: "Could humans go extinct? Who knows?

"That's what some people like Elon Musk are saying. Or there could be disease, it's not necessarily for psychological reasons."

An important read:

On AI, Trump risks pushing world into China's arms


https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/trump-ai-china-tariffs

Barack Obama and Steve Bannon agree on something: AI's role in American jobs, politics

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/obama-bannon-ai-white-collar-unemployment/83991339007/

"The first article Obama cited came from Axios and centered around an interview with Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI startup Anthropic. Amodei warned the news outlet that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, leading to unemployment rates of 10-20% in the next one to five years.

Amodei told Axios that the mass elimination of jobs could be in the offing, especially at the entry level across the technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions.

It's hard to believe the "Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs" thesis by Chump, Bessent, Lutnick, and Navarro when robotics and AI will be decreasing the demand for those jobs.

Or maybe they think that screwing in millions of tiny screws into an iPhone is what American's will want to sign up for, for $25 an hour?

Or making Nike's or T-shirts like they do in Vietnam for $1.50 an hour?

How does this MAGA!?!?!?

"Learn the models: There are many generative AI models you can use now for free. Here's a cheat sheet for where to get each one, what it's best for, and what you get if you upgrade to paid version, via Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried:

ChatGPT (OpenAI): The pioneering chatbot offers image and video generation, and can be used through mobile and computer apps as well as via ChatGPT.com (and even an 800 number). ChatGPT Plus service ($20/month) offers more and earlier access to the latest models, plus additional privacy options. Check out the advanced voice mode's natural back-and-forth conversation.

Claude (Anthropic): Though less-known than ChatGPT, Claude is favored by many businesses for its impressive coding skills and neutral, helpful tone. The $20-per-month version allows for more usage, priority during busy times and early access to new models.

Grok (X): Built into X (formerly Twitter), Grok pitches itself as a "truth-seeking AI companion for unfiltered answers" though its responses tend to be similar to those of other engines. Free users get a limited number of queries and image generations. Paid options include the $30-per-month SuperGrok and premium subscriptions to X (starting at $8/month).

Perplexity: Perplexity has carved out a niche as a combination of AI chatbot + search engine. The $20-per-month Perplexity Pro service offers image generation and access to a range of models, allowing you to see their different responses in one place.

Gemini (Google): Google's assistant can integrate with Gmail and offers a well-regarded tool called NotebookLM that can turn your notes (or any document) into a podcast. The $19.99-per-month Pro plan includes more access to its Whisk and Veo video tools plus more storage.

Meta AI: Meta's AI assistant is available across Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, with free access to image generation and a chatbot based on the company's Llama model.

Apple: Apple has the most limited AI of the group. But Apple Intelligence offers a taste of the technology in the apps you already use on your iPhone or Mac, including tools to tweak your writing, create a custom emoji or generate images. Apple Intelligence is free but requires a recent Mac or iPhone.

Experiment aggressively: You only see the possible magic by experimenting. Three easy ways to start:

Writing: Train the model to write in your voice by asking the LLM to save your writing style after feeding in things you've written in the past. The more you feed, the better it mimics. Jim has a JimGPT, trained on hundreds of speeches and columns, as well as a saved version of our Smart Brevity style, fine-tuned to his personal quirks.

Health: Feed in as much health information as you feel comfortable, including lab results, and you'll be amazed by generative AI's ability to help guide you on health choices, workouts, warning signs and supplements. (Always consult a doctor where appropriate!)

Research: AI chatbots can be great for preparing for a meeting, understanding a new subject or planning a trip. Just ask for what you want to know background on a person or company, or some good day trips in the city you're visiting."

Axios