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#intelligence

HansvR
9 hours ago

I believe intelligent life evolved on other planets, but for some reason it just didn't happen here. Then again, evolution is an ongoing process, so it might still happen.

#Aliens #Intelligence

Associazione Peacelink
1 day ago

#controffensiva
È stato lo stesso #Budanov, capo dell'#intelligence militare #ucraina, ad avvertire che gli #Abrams dovranno essere impiegati "in modo molto mirato, per operazioni molto specifiche e ben congegnate", o rischiano di essere distrutti. Se venissero semplicemente inviati in prima linea per cercare di perforare le difese russe, ha detto la settimana scorsa in un'intervista a un sito militare americano, "non vivranno molto a lungo sul campo di battaglia".
https://www.today.it/mondo/abrams-carri-armati-statunitensi-cambiare-controffensiva-ucraina.html

PAUL COGAN
1 day ago

How Machine Learning is Being Used. With the growth of TinyML and all the buzz about AI, we wanted to showcase some different ways members of the embedded electronics community are utilizing ML in their own work!
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/8061
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate #GenerativeAI #dotnet #LLM #deeplearning #DataScience
#tech #humanintelligence #gai #AIIdentity #AISelfIdentity

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Always good to have #intelligence provided by systems that can’t tell fact from fiction and are known to fabricate sources!!!!

The #CIA is planning to roll out a #ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to intelligence https://www.techmeme.com/230926/p15#a230926p15 #AI

Simon
2 days ago

Recorded Future examines the Chinese People's Liberation Army’s (PLA) resurgent focus on utilizing near-space flight vehicles (NSFVs) for various military applications, e.g. spy balloons.
Link: https://www.recordedfuture.com/near-space-china-military-strategy-strategic-reconnaissance-precision-strike-battlefield-advantage

Tags: #china #spyballoon #espionage #intelligence

PAUL COGAN
2 days ago

The AI Hype Train Has Stalled in China. Chinese artificial intelligence startups say uncertain regulation, chip shortages, and a slowing economy will make it tough to compete.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ai-hype-train-stalled-in-china?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#china #AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate #GenerativeAI #dotnet #LLM #deeplearning #DataScience
#tech #humanintelligence #gai

PAUL COGAN
2 days ago

Amazon plans to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic for the development of advanced AI foundation models. Amazon Web Services will be Anthropic's main cloud provider, using AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for model training.
https://www.anthropic.com/index/anthropic-amazon?utm_source=aittention.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-s-youtube-moment-multi-modal-chat-and-much-more-ai-news-9-25-23
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate #GenerativeAI #dotnet #LLM #deeplearning #DataScience
#tech #humanintelligence #gai

Ganga News
2 days ago

Intelligence agencies have brought attention to Arshdeep Singh, also known as Arsh Dala, a pro-Khalistani figure based in Canada.

#Intelligence #ArshdeepSingh #ArshDala #Khalistani #Canada

https://www.ganganews.com/people/arshdeep-singh-a-pro-khalistani-figure-in-canada/

PAUL COGAN
2 days ago

ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak. We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT. They offer a new, more intuitive type of interface by allowing you to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what you’re talking about.
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate #GenerativeAI #dotnet #LLM #deeplearning #DataScience
#tech #humanintelligence #gai

@jkanev

Sure, safety and security are important, but they must follow the research not define it.
Machines can cause harm only when in operation.

IMO the best (only) way to assure security and safety is confining #AI to the language (consulting) domain, preventing it from having too much agency such as “pushing buttons”.

Also, if it becomes too smart it is useless to us, and I’m sure we’ll find a way to “dumb it down”.

The truth is that intelligence is never a precondition for getting into a position of power. Quite the opposite.

Some wise words from John Dewey about #Intelligence and #Power written back in 1934:

PAUL COGAN
3 days ago

The core irony of generative AIs is that AIs were supposed to be all logic and no imagination. Instead we get AIs that make up information, engage in (seemingly) emotional discussions, and which are intensely creative. And that last fact is one that makes many people deeply uncomfortable.
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/automating-creativity
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate #GenerativeAI #dotnet #LLM #deeplearning #DataScience
#tech #humanintelligence

OSINT Ambition
3 days ago

Join the OSINT Ambition and take your investigative skills to the next level! We share expert tips, tools, and insights on OSINT. publication.osintambition.org

#osint #cybersecurity #infosec #intelligence

Nate Gaylinn
3 days ago

Time for a new #introduction

I'm a #ComputerScience #PhD candidate at the #University of #Vermont (#UVM). There, I'm doing #AI and #ALife #research with Josh Bongard and many others. Themes include #evolution, #evolvability, innate #intelligence, #cells, #bodies, and #endosymbiosis.

I believe #science should be open and accessible, so I write about my ideas on a #Wordpress #blog, review relevant books on #Goodreads, and publish my source code on #Github (links in my profile).

I'm passionate about #diversity, #social-justice, #sustainability, #ethics, #philosophy, and all things #tech. In my personal life, I love #food and #cooking, #yoga, #hiking, #art and #StarTrek.

I worked for many years on #Google #Search as a #software #engineer, #techlead, and #manager. I used to be proud of that, but lately I have concerns.

My favorite #programming language is #Python, but I know many more, and lately have been quite enjoying #CUDA #GPU programming in #cplusplus.

Simon
4 days ago

New York Times: U.S. Provided Canada With Intelligence on Killing of Sikh Leader. Intercepted communications of Indian diplomats in Canada indicating involvement in the plot, was gathered by Canadian officials.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/politics/canada-sikh-leader-killing-intelligence.html

Tags #sigint #assassination #freethewhales #india #hardeepsinghnijjar #intelligence

What are the 'Five Eyes'? As Canada accuses India, what you need to know about the intelligence alliance | CBC News https://bit.ly/3RqKUFd #CSIS #Intelligence #FiveEyes #Espionage #India #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

Lukas VF Novak
1 week ago

#Birds’ problem-solving skills linked to song complexity https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/birds-problem-solving-skills-linked-to-song-complexity/

#Songbird species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh3428

"the ability to learn complex new songs is associated with problem-solving in a large range of #bird species. But other things we associate with #intelligence, like associative learning, seem completely unrelated."

photo of a small bird
Steven Saus [he/him]
2 weeks ago

From 14 Sep: Birds’ problem-solving skills linked to song complexity - Enlarge / Despite the gaudy clothing, this guy is remarkably crafty.Arthur Morris ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/birds-problem-solving-skills-linked-to-song-complexity/ #behavioral-science #biology #bird-song #birds #evolution #intelligence #science

PAUL COGAN
2 weeks ago

The extinction narrative is being fed to you by a small set of LLM companies, both as a marketing ploy (our tech is so powerful it could destroy everything!) and as a way to gain the attention of (endlessly gullible) lawmakers in order to achieve regulatory capture.
https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1702295053668946148
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate #GenerativeAI #dotnet #LLM

Kriszta Satori
2 weeks ago

A Times exclusive:
#MI5 warned #Conservatives that #MP hopefuls could be spies

Two potential candidates dropped after the #intelligence service said they could be #Chinese agents

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mi5-conservatives-tory-candidate-list-china-spies-t6nvzxnd0

OWASP Amass
2 weeks ago

The @owasp #attacksurface #intelligence collection tool v4.2 has been released and recently reached 10k stars on @github! 🙌 🎉

Great job #Amass contributors, corporate supporters, and community! @zerofox @ipinfoio @six2dez @Jhaddix

#asm #easm #osint #osint4good #recon #attacksurfacemanagement

https://github.com/owasp-amass/amass/releases/tag/v4.2.0

So yeah...
#ElSalvador is ruled by some #CryptoBro who according to #Journalists and #Intelligence (independent from each other!) did strike a #truce with #B18 & #MS13 gang bosses...

No wounder people there tweet "What a beautyful Dictatorship" unsarcastically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmOZh-E8W0&t=1247s

Micah Hoffman
3 weeks ago

Doing #OSINT in the USA and run across a license plate? It can be absolutely overwhelming to figure out what state that plate comes from with the over 8,000 combinations of states and specialty plates currently in use. Don't believe me? Check out https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/

#transportation #vehicle #car #truck #intelligence

WIST Quotations
3 weeks ago

A quotation from Heschel, Abraham:

«
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/heschel-abraham/25712/

#quote #quotes #quotation #admiration #age #caring #cleverness #compassion #intelligence #kindness #maturity #power

Steffani Cameron
3 weeks ago

If you’re a food blogger who has ever said “Spanish rice” and “Mexican rice” are the same, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I can’t believe how many Mexican rice recipes are described as Spanish rice.

Spanish rice uses saffron.

Mexican rice is spicy.

Spain was a colonial oppressor of Mexico for hundreds of years and murdered millions.

Stop sounding ignorant. If you don’t KNOW if there is a difference, look it up. #food #cooking #history #intelligence

Jan Penfrat
3 weeks ago

Car maker #Nissan "admits in their #privacy policy to collecting (...) #sexual activity, #health diagnosis data, and #genetic data (...). They say they can share and sell #consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, #psychological trends, #predispositions, #behavior, #attitudes, #intelligence, #abilities, and #aptitudes” to data #brokers, #lawenforcement, and other third parties."

"All new cars today are privacy nightmares on wheels."

Via @mozilla
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

Screenshot from Mozilla website showing car manufacturers' logos.
Nona Rose
4 weeks ago

I am currently sitting on a suburban train heading to an professional Australian Rules Football game, kitted out in my teams colours, while thinking about poetry, history and photography … when it suddenly made me wonder why a divide between “jocks,” “nerds” and “creatives” was ever a thing.

People are, on the whole, complex creatures who enjoy a wide variety of passions and employ a vast array of intelligences.

One is not better than another. They are different.

No need to be snobby about something someone likes just because you don’t like it.

#sport #poetry #history #photography #jocks #nerds #intelligence #difference

PAUL COGAN
1 month ago

Google unveils SynthID, a tool that can embed an invisible digital “watermark” into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/29/google-wants-watermark-ai-generated-images-stop-deepfakes/
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence #ai #generative #machineLearning
#AI #AInews #AIupdate

Tracy Rosenberg
1 month ago

Texas governor Abbott's Operation #LoneStar was found to be running an "unauthorized foreign #intelligence operation. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-national-guard-migrants-whatsapp-intelligence/

Oakland Privacy
1 month ago

Texas governor Abbott's Operation #LoneStar was found to be running an "unauthorized foreign #intelligence operation. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-national-guard-migrants-whatsapp-intelligence/

Harry Sintonen
1 month ago

Martti J Kari is dead after long battle with cancer. Here's the remarkable lecture he gave about Russia in 2018 (enable subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw #intelligence #history

Nate Gaylinn
1 month ago

This semester, I'm taking a class on the philosophy of mind, body, and intelligence. The professor kicked things off by lamenting that the reading list is by a bunch of white men. He's actively looking for source material from more diverse perspectives, especially women, people of color, and cultural traditions outside of "traditional Western thought."

I wonder, do any of y'all have recommendations? I'd love to check them out myself, and share them with the class.

:boost_requested:​ Boosts appreciated if you know folks who are into this sort of thing.

#philosophy #mind #embodiment #body #intelligence #ai

Kailee ♾️
1 month ago

Newly declassified US #intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through Westerners

Alert: Former moscow bathroom robber Vlad Putin and his murderous FSB (KGB) use relationships with traitorous republicans to spread Russian propaganda and disinformation.
Vlad putin doesn't need to bomb the USA, he just buys republicans to destroy America.

Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.

US #intelligence agencies believe that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is attempting to influence public policy and public opinion in the West by directing Russian civilians to build relationships with influential US and Western individuals and then disseminate narratives that support Kremlin objectives, obscuring the FSB’s role through Putin shills, hello republicans.

#psyop #enemy #disinformation
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/politics/us-intel-russia-propaganda/index.html

M Dell
1 month ago

#Tweet "All #Cops are broadcasting" presentation at #BlackHat 2023. The #TETRA vulnerabilities affecting #encryption, #confidentiality, #authenticity of secret communications among #police, #prisons, #military and #intelligence

slides
https://twitter.com/mndell/status/1690837787824496641

2 months ago

@renwillis Funny. What's sold as #AI today isn't even intelligent but already seems superior to natural #intelligence.

It's not a study, it's a report of a single #student, the "images" (plural) the article links to is a single image, no hint it has been repeated or reproduced by others. So how scientific or representative is this? OP blaming the " #tech bro culture" and many comments here have just as an bias as they complain about. I even bet an "AI" would reason more differentiated.

Daniel AJ Sokolov
2 months ago

@kevincollier
I don't know the details/politics of this specific case. But I know that #debt is a serious #risk factor for security #clearances. Ask any #intelligence agency.

Kriszta Satori
3 months ago

'There was a report in September 2022 by the #Bulgarian National Security Agency, and it directly accused #Russia of increasing its #intelligence activities in #Bulgaria. Even of #interfering in #elections, interfering in #media using agents of influence, both in government institutions, in security services, and in the media, and this is this is something that has been officially stated, it was the only country mentioned in this report as having an anti Bulgarian activity.'

🤘 The Metal Dog 🤘
3 months ago

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#MetalSucks
Research Suggests Listening to Metal While Studying Makes You Dumberer
Put down the Sanguisugabogg and get back to summer school. The post Research Suggests Listening to Metal While Studying Makes You Dumberer appeared first on MetalSucks.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2023/06/29/research-suggests-listening-to-metal-while-studying-makes-you-dumberer/

#MetalMusic
#Education
#Intelligence
#Studying
#Research
#Correlation
#MusicGenre
#CognitiveSkills

Allen Stenhaus
3 months ago

@LeatherCubAndrew @kataklysm @Zumbador @hosford42 @actuallyautistic On this topic, for those interested, the Culture Fair IQ test at 123test.com is quite accurate. My professional testing as part of my autism evaluation was only 2 points higher than what that site told me. 2 points is negligible. A missed meal or poor night's sleep can cause a greater variation in scores than that.

Though, the testing on that site costs $8, and I questioned my intelligence in paying them, it was a good stepping stone towards understanding myself. In fact, most of that test's content was given to me during my official autism testing, so it's no surprise the scores were so close!

I'm glad I did both tests. I spent my entire 40 years feeling incredibly stupid for struggling with so many things. Getting legitimate proof I actually am intelligent & my issues are social in nature was a massive relief & gave me a little confidence in myself I never would have gotten otherwise.

#ActuallyAutistic #IQ #Intelligence #CultureFairIQTest

Nick Byrd
3 months ago

Emily Liquin presented “The Origins of Information-Seeking Questions”

People
1. re-used previously seen “question templates”
2. even “novel" questions were similar to templates.

This anchoring decreased with age.

Curiously, older kids and adults didn’t ask questions that could reveal more information.

Collaborators: Barron Tsai, Marjorie Rhodes, & Todd Gureckis

Dr. Liquin’s on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IdymDGQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#xPhi #Epistemology #Rationality #Intelligence #Psychology #CogSci #SPP2023

Dr. Liquin introducing the talk and her team.
The anchoring result
Question utility across age (no relationship)
Question novelty increased with age

NEW: #SocialMedia #Intelligence Case Study - An OSINT Data Engineer’s Investigation into American Right-Wing Communities Targeted by #Russian Disinformation by @EricBrichetto

https://medium.com/@brichett13/social-media-intelligence-case-study-an-osint-data-engineers-investigation-into-american-813ecf2463d6 #disinformation

New review: Combining philosophical potshots at human exceptionalism with a gentle introduction to animal intelligence, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal is an easy read that cracked me up frequently.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/06/13/book-review-if-nietzsche-were-a-narwhal-what-animal-intelligence-reveals-about-human-stupidity/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Ethology #AnimalBehavior #Intelligence #Scicomm @justindgregg @bookstodon

Okay, people. Take a break from indictment madness and wrap your minds around this incredible 🐦🧵 from “barren field of sunflower seeds” @mykola:

“PSA in case you didn’t know the Orcas have organized and are fighting back. They are spreading the knowledge of how to disable ships, teaching other orcas how to do it.

This is not a drill, they are done with our shit in their oceans.”

https://twitter.com/mykola/status/1667365540279599104?s=61&t=657Ta6s8PFEsIRlxxocx1g

#Climate #Oceans #Whales #Orcas #MarineLife #Intelligence #Trees #MycelialNetworks

Travis Romero 🦸‍♂️
4 months ago

It was super fun to interview @jerry for this week's episode of the Infosec Sidekick Podcast!

I had wanted to do this a while back; when the heat of the twitter migration was taking place, but I almost feel like now was a better time.

With the dust somewhat settled, @jerry and I talk about Information Sharing, Community Building, and how Mastadon plays a role in that.

I genuinely appreciate this conversation and hope it can provide you some value and entertainment throughout your week.

You will be sure to find gems in this episode, such as the unlikely comparison to twitter vs mastadon as Monsters Inc. Power Generation (don't ask, just listen lol)

To Listen -> https://www.infosecsidekick.com/p/building-a-cyber-security-community#details

#infosec #infosecurity #podcast #news #community #intelligence #informationsecurity

Available now: New "Observers" episode, entitled "AI".

You can watch the normal flat-screen version, or the 360 VR 3D version on the website here:

https://starshipsd.com/observers/ai/

#animation #scifi #aliens #vr #3d #existential #ai #cartoon #intelligence #xrisk

GIF loop of the title screen. "Observers, Ep 10, AP" and a round space-ship pod. You can just see the aliens dancing though the windows.
Dimitri Mollo
4 months ago

For the past few years colleagues at the Berlin Science of Intelligence Cluster and I have put together a podcast series on intelligence research, called Punching Cards.

The first episode, on human intelligence, is just out!

The next ones will discuss intelligence in other animals, in future AI systems, in collectives, and even plants!

Find the podcast on the link below, and on several podcast platforms.

https://www.spreaker.com/show/punching-cards

 #intelligence #ai #philosophy  #sciencecommunication

dr jamesbicycle
4 months ago

@MarkStout

Dreaming of a coup, Putin in detention at Yekaterinburg.

#intelligence #Russia #WARINUKRAINE #ukraine #deception #prigozhin

Wisdom in Space
5 months ago

The Internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the Internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality.
-- David Drum

#Quotes #DavidDrum #Inequality #Intelligence #Internet

#Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

photo by richard rathe

How did the Discord Leaks get revealed and what incentivized Jack Teixeira to share secret documents? Watch this awesome explainer from @scrippsnews with interviews with me, @AricToler and @broderick: https://youtu.be/NElDs8_Pc9k w/@JakeGodin @MPicht #leaks #discord #socialmedia #intelligence #military #security #nationalsecurity #disinformation #extremism #Russia #Ukraine