Business & Tech Tech Bigwigs Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and Others Hold Private Meeting With Congress on Regulating AI In what seems like inviting the foxes to a forum on henhouse safety, the biggest names in AI held a secret meeting in Washington, D.C. yesterday to advise Senate leaders on how to regulate the fast-growing AI industry.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Arrives Tuesday, Bringing Celebrities, Street Closures, Traffic, and Breathless AI Hype Some 43,000 corporate types will converge on South of Market for SF’s biggest conference Dreamforce, which starts Tuesday, making a mess of traffic, but hopefully also a mess of money for the local hospitality biz.
SF Politics Biden's In Town to Debate AI's Future With Tech Leaders; Meanwhile, AI Biden and AI Trump Are Debating on Twitch It's strange days, indeed! President Joe Biden is in San Francisco today, attending fundraisers for his re-election campaign and convening a forum with tech people to talk about the future of artificial intelligence. And meanwhile, someone has set up a video AI on Twitch with a chatbot Biden.
SF News Car Wars: Mercedes Driver Slams Into San Francisco Tesla Dealership Mercedes SLK300 just crashed into Van Ness Tesla Store. pic.twitter.com/3D7n2PQ3V2— Pavel Uvarov (@puvar) September 4, 2017 It was fancy car v fancy car on Van Ness Avenue Monday afternoon, when
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Put Alexa Inside A Camera So She Can Give You Fashion Advice (And Maybe Spy On You) Behold the Amazon Echo Look, which the company is billing as a "hands-free camera style assistant," but which could, before you know it, end up being a creepy talking robot that watches your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Robot Named Carry Spotted 'Learning The Sidewalks' Of The Mission Spotted on 19th Street: A delivery robot named "Carry" https://t.co/l8mXp2GqCH pic.twitter.com/EC1HGZUCuk— Mission Local (@MLNow) February 22, 2017 That R2D2-ish delivery robot on wheels that we first told
SF News Alphabet-Owned Boston Dynamics Unveils New 'Nightmare Inducing' Wheeled Robot In leaked video from a private presentation to investors by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, we see their latest war machine incredible mobile AI creation, Handle. Raibert himself says that it looks to
Arts & Entertainment Apocalypse Now, Please: Two Google Home Devices Have An Endless Conversation About Everything And Nothing Two Google Home devices have been programmed (tricked? hacked?) into talking back and forth to each other, and it's been going on all day and live-streamed via Twitch TV, under the header SeeBotsChat.
Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk Has Stopped Discussing Theories Of An AI-Simulated Universe While In Hot Tubs Here's a little break from the election and the apotheosis of the Chicago Cubs: Vox made this video summarizing Elon Musk's (and others') theory that we are, all of us, our doughnuts, delusions,
SF News Robert Downey Jr. Wants To Be The Voice Of Mark Zuckerberg's AI Butler "This just got real." So wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday after Robert Downey Jr. offered to record the voice of the tech titan's personal AI butler. As one of his always interesting
