AI Los Alamos? + New Realistic AI Avatars

She even pasted the moth in her logbook, which is now on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

This incident symbolizes the origin of the term bug, commonly used in computer science to describe a flaw or error in a program.

Hopper's creativity and problem-solving skills have made her one of the pioneering figures in early computer science.

Okay, fair enough.

If you look or listen closely, you can kind of tell it's AI-made.

But if I wasn't concentrating, I would have been fooled.

And honestly, that's the first time I could say that about an AI avatar.

And of course, people are already playing with Heijen's model to see what they can get it to say.

Hi, bitch.

Thanks for your interest in our ultra-realistic avatar feature for your use case in Slave Humanity using Terminator robots.

And to be honest, you don't need me to speculate how this might be, let's say, used ahead of elections in the Western world next year and just on social media more generally.

Remember that this is an avatar based on a real human face and voice, so could be your face and voice in the coming weeks and months.

This also caught my eye this week, a major two-year competition that will use AI to protect US software.

The White House calls it the AI Cyber Challenge, but what's interesting are the companies involved, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, all of them partnering with DARPA to make software more secure.

But there were a couple of lines that I think many people will miss halfway down.

AI companies will make their cutting-edge technology, some of the most powerful AI systems in the world, available for competitors to use in designing new cybersecurity solutions.

Given the deadlines involved, that could mean unreleased versions of Google's Gemini and GPT-5 being used to design cybersecurity solutions.

But if this is all about defense, what about offense? Well, quite recently we had this from the CEO of Palantir in the New York Times.

Our Oppenheimer moment, the creation of AI weapons.

In the article he compared the rise in the parameter count of machine learning systems with the rise in the power of nuclear devices.

And he said we must not however shy away from building sharp tools for fear that they may be turned against us.

We must ensure that the machine remains subordinate to its creator and our adversaries will not pause to indulge in what he calls theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications.

They will proceed.

And then he says, this is an arms race of a different kind and it has begun.

And Palantir is already using AI to assist in target selection, mission planning and satellite reconnaissance.