Lugh
@futurist-stuff.bsky.social
Tend to post most about techno-progressive stuff, but other interests are Irish politics (north & south), AI Art and literature.
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As the US government bows to the #AI industry and threatens to ban state-level #AIregulation, new Pew research shows huge differences between the public & AI industry's views on AI's impact.
futurology.today/post/7334013
futurology.today/post/7334013
As the US government bows to the AI industry and threatens to ban state-level AI regulation, new Pew research shows huge differences between the public & AI industry's views on AI's impact. - Futurolo...
futurology.today
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As the US government bows to the #AI industry and threatens to ban state-level #AIregulation, new Pew research shows huge differences between the public & AI industry's views on AI's impact.
futurology.today/post/7334013
futurology.today/post/7334013
Will the Catholic Church soon support UBI? In his first meeting with the cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said the impact of AI and robotics on work will be a central focus of his papacy.
#UBI #AGI
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
#UBI #AGI
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Pope Leo identifies AI as main challenge in first meeting with cardinals
New pontiff sets out vision, pledging to continue ‘precious legacy’ of predecessor Pope Francis.
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May 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Will the Catholic Church soon support UBI? In his first meeting with the cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said the impact of AI and robotics on work will be a central focus of his papacy.
#UBI #AGI
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
#UBI #AGI
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
Some people have wondered if solar adoption will happen on the familiar s-curve technology is adopted at. Here's intriguing evidence this might be the case.
#solar #renewables
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/03/l...
#solar #renewables
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Leapting rolls out PV module-mounting robot
Leapting will soon deploy a PV module-mounting robot at a project in Australia. It says the automatic installation speed of the AI-driven machine can reach one panel per minute, delivering an estimate...
www.pv-magazine.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Some people have wondered if solar adoption will happen on the familiar s-curve technology is adopted at. Here's intriguing evidence this might be the case.
#solar #renewables
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/03/l...
#solar #renewables
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/03/l...
General Motors joins almost a dozen car makers in China deploying humanoid robots and is using Kepler's K2 humanoid robots at its Shanghai factory.
#robotics
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#robotics
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General Motors is testing Kepler K2 humanoid robots at its Shanghai factory. - Futurology Today
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April 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
General Motors joins almost a dozen car makers in China deploying humanoid robots and is using Kepler's K2 humanoid robots at its Shanghai factory.
#robotics
futurology.today/post/4568034
#robotics
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And of course they'll get away with it with zero consequences, like they do with everything else
Prediction:
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
April 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
And of course they'll get away with it with zero consequences, like they do with everything else
The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance.
#openai #agi #chatgpt
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#openai #agi #chatgpt
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Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance — Toby Ord
The shift from scaling up the pre-training compute of AI systems to scaling up their inference compute may have profound effects on AI governance. The nature of these effects depends crucially on whet...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance.
#openai #agi #chatgpt
www.tobyord.com/writing/infe...
#openai #agi #chatgpt
www.tobyord.com/writing/infe...
1/3 - Helix's humanoid robot has been updated to perform generalized household tasks for which it has not been trained before.
youtu.be/Z3yQHYNXPws
#robot #robotics #AGI #UBI
youtu.be/Z3yQHYNXPws
#robot #robotics #AGI #UBI
Introducing Helix
YouTube video by Figure
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February 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
1/3 - Helix's humanoid robot has been updated to perform generalized household tasks for which it has not been trained before.
youtu.be/Z3yQHYNXPws
#robot #robotics #AGI #UBI
youtu.be/Z3yQHYNXPws
#robot #robotics #AGI #UBI
If you think, as I do, a multi-polar world is the best option for the future, then it may be that we will come to owe Open Source AI a lot .....
futurology.today/post/3632239
futurology.today/post/3632239
The signs are the world is splitting into 3 siloed zones, each dominated by different types of AI: American, European, and China/Rest of World. - Futurology Today
For some time people have spoken of the concept of sovereign AI. Sovereign AI
refers to a government’s or organization’s control over AI technologies and
associated data. At the start of 2025 such an ...
futurology.today
February 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you think, as I do, a multi-polar world is the best option for the future, then it may be that we will come to owe Open Source AI a lot .....
futurology.today/post/3632239
futurology.today/post/3632239
Even without trade wars, Europe and the US are profoundly diverging. As US Big Tech enables authoritarianism, its setting itself up to be outlawed in the EU.
#coup #musk #DOGE #Tariffs
futurology.today/post/3568288
#coup #musk #DOGE #Tariffs
futurology.today/post/3568288
Just as the US gears up to become more autocratic, the EU has passed laws to ban the AI that enables it. - Futurology Today
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February 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Even without trade wars, Europe and the US are profoundly diverging. As US Big Tech enables authoritarianism, its setting itself up to be outlawed in the EU.
#coup #musk #DOGE #Tariffs
futurology.today/post/3568288
#coup #musk #DOGE #Tariffs
futurology.today/post/3568288
1/4 - January 2025 has seen two significant events for Big Tech. Their moves to further enable authoritarianism, and the neo-nazi far right & their loss of the AI arms race to a tiny Chinese upstart.
futurology.today/post/3536553
#UBI #AGI
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#UBI #AGI
By using Open-Source to hobble and undercut each other, AI companies may be saving us from the nightmare of tyranny enabled by Big Tech. - Futurology Today
January 2025 has seen two significant events for Big Tech. Their moves to
further enable authoritarianism, and the neo-nazi far right & their loss of the
AI arms race to a tiny Chinese upstart. Meta e...
futurology.today
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
1/4 - January 2025 has seen two significant events for Big Tech. Their moves to further enable authoritarianism, and the neo-nazi far right & their loss of the AI arms race to a tiny Chinese upstart.
futurology.today/post/3536553
#UBI #AGI
futurology.today/post/3536553
#UBI #AGI
Qwen2.5-Max, a second Chinese open-source AI that equals western investor-funded AIs, has been released.
At this point I wonder is the Chinese government executing some strategy in the background. If they are, and its to weaken America’s tech lead, it’s working.
qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5...
At this point I wonder is the Chinese government executing some strategy in the background. If they are, and its to weaken America’s tech lead, it’s working.
qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5...
Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-scale MoE Model
QWEN CHAT API DEMO DISCORD
It is widely recognized that continuously scaling both data size and model size can lead to significant improvements in model intelligence. However, the research and industr...
qwenlm.github.io
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Qwen2.5-Max, a second Chinese open-source AI that equals western investor-funded AIs, has been released.
At this point I wonder is the Chinese government executing some strategy in the background. If they are, and its to weaken America’s tech lead, it’s working.
qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5...
At this point I wonder is the Chinese government executing some strategy in the background. If they are, and its to weaken America’s tech lead, it’s working.
qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5...
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Trevor Jackson on Martin Wolf’s legacy... is pretty damning….https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/01/16/never-too-much-the-crisis-of-democratic-capitalism-wolf/
‘Never Too Much’ | Trevor Jackson
Something has gone terribly wrong. In his 2004 book Why Globalization Works, the economics journalist Martin Wolf wrote that “liberal democracy is the
www.nybooks.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Trevor Jackson on Martin Wolf’s legacy... is pretty damning….https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/01/16/never-too-much-the-crisis-of-democratic-capitalism-wolf/
Even when Big Tech says it out loud, that their AI plans mean wages slashed & jobs eliminated, it seems many people want to bury their head in the sand & say it ain't so .....
#UBI #AGI #OPENAI
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#UBI #AGI #OPENAI
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The head of one of America's biggest Venture Capital firms says American workers should welcome AI crashing their wages, as it will lead to much lower prices. If this is the new Big Tech agenda, maybe...
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January 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Even when Big Tech says it out loud, that their AI plans mean wages slashed & jobs eliminated, it seems many people want to bury their head in the sand & say it ain't so .....
#UBI #AGI #OPENAI
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#UBI #AGI #OPENAI
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I wonder how many of the investors pouring 10s of billions of $ into #OpenAI ever get nervous? It's matched at every turn by open-source, & has no path I can see to ever turning a profit. Come the next stock market correction, it may just disappear in a puff of smoke.
www.zdnet.com/article/deep...
www.zdnet.com/article/deep...
DeepSeek's new open-source AI model can outperform o1 for a fraction of the cost
In another open-source win, DeepSeek aims to redefine 'open AI' with R1, its latest model.
www.zdnet.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I wonder how many of the investors pouring 10s of billions of $ into #OpenAI ever get nervous? It's matched at every turn by open-source, & has no path I can see to ever turning a profit. Come the next stock market correction, it may just disappear in a puff of smoke.
www.zdnet.com/article/deep...
www.zdnet.com/article/deep...
Despite being the world's 8th biggest crude #oil exporter, #Norway is banning the sale of new gasoline cars in 2025.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#renewables #energy
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#renewables #energy
Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
Nine in 10 new cars in the country are now battery-powered, and it aims to hit 100% later this year.
www.bbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Despite being the world's 8th biggest crude #oil exporter, #Norway is banning the sale of new gasoline cars in 2025.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#renewables #energy
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#renewables #energy
Powered from just an electrical socket, a Swiss firm has developed an autonomous drill that can drill down to 500 meters in people's gardens to allow them to tap into temperatures of 14 Celsius, enough to heat and cool homes throughout the year. #renewables #energy
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thenextweb.com/news/borobot...
This robot worm digs for geothermal energy in your backyard
The drilling bot can silently burrow just about anywhere. It could unlock geothermal as a viable backyard energy source.
thenextweb.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Powered from just an electrical socket, a Swiss firm has developed an autonomous drill that can drill down to 500 meters in people's gardens to allow them to tap into temperatures of 14 Celsius, enough to heat and cool homes throughout the year. #renewables #energy
thenextweb.com/news/borobot...
thenextweb.com/news/borobot...
The latest updates to the #Unitree $16,000 #humanoid #robot show us how close we are to a world filled with humanoid #robotics
youtu.be/CIkdq7Zf4Zw
youtu.be/CIkdq7Zf4Zw
Unitree G1 Bionic: Agile Upgrade
YouTube video by Unitree Robotics
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January 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The latest updates to the #Unitree $16,000 #humanoid #robot show us how close we are to a world filled with humanoid #robotics
youtu.be/CIkdq7Zf4Zw
youtu.be/CIkdq7Zf4Zw
1/4 After selling Boston Dynamics in 2017, #Google has returned to humanoid #robotics development by partnering #DeepMind AI with Texas-based robotics manufacturer #Apptronik.
#agi #ai
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#agi #ai
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Apptronik
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December 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
1/4 After selling Boston Dynamics in 2017, #Google has returned to humanoid #robotics development by partnering #DeepMind AI with Texas-based robotics manufacturer #Apptronik.
#agi #ai
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#agi #ai
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One day society is going to have to wake up to the fact we are being duped by these people, and the longer we keep believing them, the more we just get all the angst and chaos, and none of the understanding we need to fashion a new reality.
#ubi #agi
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#ubi #agi
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From the Futurology community on Reddit: Our governing elites are leading us over a cliff - Case in Point: Marc Benioff, owner of TIME magazine.
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November 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM
One day society is going to have to wake up to the fact we are being duped by these people, and the longer we keep believing them, the more we just get all the angst and chaos, and none of the understanding we need to fashion a new reality.
#ubi #agi
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...
#ubi #agi
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I don't think this is getting factored into how people are thinking about things like Basic Income. By the time we reach the point where robots and AI can do most work for pennies on the hour, they will be in mass ownership, not controlled by a few mega-corps. #ubi
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From the Futurology community on Reddit: Contrary to dystopian nightmares about corporate overlords controlling the future, as with AI, in Robotics the free open source tech is keeping pace with Big T...
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November 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM
I don't think this is getting factored into how people are thinking about things like Basic Income. By the time we reach the point where robots and AI can do most work for pennies on the hour, they will be in mass ownership, not controlled by a few mega-corps. #ubi
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Will universal services, like free AI healthcare, come before UBI? Recent advances suggest the AI technology to enable it is already here.
#ubi #agi #ai
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#ubi #agi #ai
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November 24, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Will universal services, like free AI healthcare, come before UBI? Recent advances suggest the AI technology to enable it is already here.
#ubi #agi #ai
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...?
#ubi #agi #ai
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...?
Continuing a trend, the leading investor-funded #AI model, #OpenAI 's o1, has just been equalled by an open source solution.
#deepseek #agi
api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1120
#deepseek #agi
api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1120
🚀 DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is now live: unleashing supercharged reasoning power! | DeepSeek API Docs
🔍 o1-preview-level performance on AIME & MATH benchmarks.
api-docs.deepseek.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Continuing a trend, the leading investor-funded #AI model, #OpenAI 's o1, has just been equalled by an open source solution.
#deepseek #agi
api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1120
#deepseek #agi
api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1120
Here's a thought 🤔 What if (some of) the universal healthcare of the near future is delivered via free #ai? #ubi proponents should think about promoting this angle of universal public services.
#agi #openai #ubi
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...?
#agi #openai #ubi
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ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
A new Chinese solar project, costing just $1.65 billion, has an annual output of 5.7 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) - half that of an average nuclear power plant.
#renewables #solar
www.pv-tech.org/3gw-single-s...
#renewables #solar
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3GW single-site PV project goes online in China
China’s CHN Energy has grid connected the Mengxi Blue Ocean PV Power Plant Project, at 3GW the country’s largest single-site PV power plant.
www.pv-tech.org
November 18, 2024 at 6:54 PM
A new Chinese solar project, costing just $1.65 billion, has an annual output of 5.7 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) - half that of an average nuclear power plant.
#renewables #solar
www.pv-tech.org/3gw-single-s...
#renewables #solar
www.pv-tech.org/3gw-single-s...