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Tag: AI
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: NY TIMES WONDERS ABOUT MIND-VASION, AND MORE SIGNS AI GAINING AS HUMANS LOSE
Meta has dominated a surge in smart eyewear this year, at least partly vindicating the company’s long-term focus on pushing devices that could act as a platform for its augmented and virtual metaverse vision.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ‘ChatCOP’ GPT
We warned TJ readers that no cloud service, and particularly no generative AI chatbot conversations in the cloud could be considered private.
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CHINA PLAYS THE LONG GAME IN AI
In the global race to dominate AI, China is the tortoise to the U.S.’s hare—and we know who won that fabled contest.
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DATA CENTERS’ PLANS EXCEED ELECTRIC GRID’S CAPACITY
Companies planning new AI data centers have swamped electric utilities with so many requests for connections that “in some cases, the collective requests equal or surpass—by multiples—the existing electricity demand in a utility’s entire service region,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
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AI TEACHES FACTORY ROBOTS TO PRIORITIZE HUMAN SAFETY
Robots working alongside people in factories work according to precise instructions; humans not so much.
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FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” DEPARTMENT…
AI models might be a few lines of miswritten code away from going to the dark side.
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NEW APPROACH TO “REASONING” AI BEATS CURRENT MODELS IN KEY TEST
AIs that “reason” are beginning to emerge but the rollout has been bumpy, as we noted in “OpenAI Embarrasses Itself With Release of ChatGPT-5” (19 Aug 2025).
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OPENAI GETS INTO THE MOVIE BUSINESS
OpenAI has lent its AI software and computing services to the creation of a feature-length animated movie titled “Critterz” that will be released globally next year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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AS FORECAST: AI AGENTS BEING DEPLOYED TO CLONE EMPLOYEES
Right now, entrepreneurs and high-level CEOs and social media personalities and “gurus” are on the cutting edge of adopting AI agent technology.