#techweeniealert — Public Fediverse posts
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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“OpenAI chief executive #SamAltman downplayed the threat of #AI #killingJobs just days after #WiseTech informed the police of “threats of violence” against its #CEO, who is using the #technology to replace thousands of its #workers.”
“The #Jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought,” Altman told Commonwealth Bank boss #MattComyn in a virtual appearance at an AI event in Sydney hosted by the bank. “I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of #JobsApocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate, or talk about.”
Bull shit boi at it again.
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #sackings / #work <https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/openai-boss-downplays-jobs-apocalypse-as-threats-of-violence-hit-aussie-tech-giant-20260526-p600tn.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/IxP8G>
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“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the #AIModel, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” #Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the "top of mind" issue. 🤪🧠
… a company spokesperson confirmed in April that Meta would monitor employees to train AI. Meta's #TrackingTool is called #ModelCapabilityInitiative, according to reports.
The audio was posted the same day Meta announced 8,000 #JobCuts. It captured Zuckerberg's thoughts on the news, first reported by #Reuters, that Meta planned to install #software on employees' computers to #monitor activity for AI training. #MorePerfectUnion did not reply to an email from The Register seeking comment.
"So if we're trying to teach the models #coding, for example, then having #people internally build tools that or solve #tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think, is going to dramatically increase our models' coding ability #faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of extremely #StrongEngineers 💪🤓 at their company,"
Marky Mark stuffing the Meta AI LLM with data.
#Oligarch / #Meta / #MarkZuckerburg / #ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar <https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/22/zuck-defends-monitoring-employees-to-win-ai-race-in-purported-leaked-audio/5245379>