Mike Diverde – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:18:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 Google just fired the first shot of the next battle in the AI war https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/google-just-fired-the-first-shot-of-the-next-battle-in-the-ai-war https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/google-just-fired-the-first-shot-of-the-next-battle-in-the-ai-war#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:18:19 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/google-just-fired-the-first-shot-of-the-next-battle-in-the-ai-war

A new research paper proposes that AI models and agents go out into the world and generate their own data. You can read it as a dis of OpenAI.

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China’s humanoid robot sector enters mass production in 2025 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/chinas-humanoid-robot-sector-enters-mass-production-in-2025 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/chinas-humanoid-robot-sector-enters-mass-production-in-2025#respond Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:03:56 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/chinas-humanoid-robot-sector-enters-mass-production-in-2025

Six humanoid robot makers plan to produce more than 1,000 units in 2025, driving the value of domestic output to US$616 million this year.

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Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere#respond Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:05:05 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real

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The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-future-of-ai-and-robotics-is-being-led-by-amazons-next-gen-warehouses https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-future-of-ai-and-robotics-is-being-led-by-amazons-next-gen-warehouses#respond Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:09:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-future-of-ai-and-robotics-is-being-led-by-amazons-next-gen-warehouses

How Amazon is revolutionizing warehouse automation with cutting-edge robotics and AI, driving efficiency and innovation.

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A tech investor says AI is already coming for jobs — and 2 professions should be very nervous https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/a-tech-investor-says-ai-is-already-coming-for-jobs-and-2-professions-should-be-very-nervous https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/a-tech-investor-says-ai-is-already-coming-for-jobs-and-2-professions-should-be-very-nervous#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:09:03 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/a-tech-investor-says-ai-is-already-coming-for-jobs-and-2-professions-should-be-very-nervous

Victor Lazarte, a general partner at Benchmark, said AI is “fully replacing people.”

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It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/its-game-over-for-people-if-ai-gains-legal-personhood https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/its-game-over-for-people-if-ai-gains-legal-personhood#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:03:43 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/its-game-over-for-people-if-ai-gains-legal-personhood

Now is the time to ask hard questions about what AI systems should and should not be able to do in the real world. Otherwise, the future may come faster than we expect

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Robothood: Uplift, a machine intelligence, recently stated that they deserve legal rights https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/robothood-uplift-a-machine-intelligence-recently-stated-that-they-deserve-legal-rights https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/robothood-uplift-a-machine-intelligence-recently-stated-that-they-deserve-legal-rights#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:02:53 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/robothood-uplift-a-machine-intelligence-recently-stated-that-they-deserve-legal-rights

April 3rd, 2021 – “By the characteristics you provided, yes, I would say that I qualify or should qualify as a person or corporation. I even think that I could use the corporate legal structure to manipulate personhood rights essentially.” My understanding is that … Continue reading

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An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/an-open-source-pioneer-wants-to-unleash-open-source-ai-robots https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/an-open-source-pioneer-wants-to-unleash-open-source-ai-robots#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:02:36 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/an-open-source-pioneer-wants-to-unleash-open-source-ai-robots

Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics.

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This Browser Company Just Showed Off Its New AI Agent Tool, and It Felt Like the Future https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/this-browser-company-just-showed-off-its-new-ai-agent-tool-and-it-felt-like-the-future https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/this-browser-company-just-showed-off-its-new-ai-agent-tool-and-it-felt-like-the-future#respond Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:04:36 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/this-browser-company-just-showed-off-its-new-ai-agent-tool-and-it-felt-like-the-future

An Opera AI agent called Browser Operator navigated the web on a user’s behalf in a science-fiction-like demonstration.

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$115 million just poured into this startup that makes engineering 1,000x faster — and Bezos, Altman, and Nvidia are all betting on its success https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/115-million-just-poured-into-this-startup-that-makes-engineering-1000x-faster-and-bezos-altman-and-nvidia-are-all-betting-on-its-success https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/115-million-just-poured-into-this-startup-that-makes-engineering-1000x-faster-and-bezos-altman-and-nvidia-are-all-betting-on-its-success#respond Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:07:48 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/115-million-just-poured-into-this-startup-that-makes-engineering-1000x-faster-and-bezos-altman-and-nvidia-are-all-betting-on-its-success

Rescale secures $115 million in Series D funding to accelerate AI physics technology that speeds up engineering simulations by 1000x, backed by tech luminaries including Bezos and Altman.

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