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Google 'LaMDA' is the next breakthough in AI understanding "Following “BERT,” Google announced “LaMDA” at I/O 2021 today as a breakthrough in development with a key focus: natural conversation." Google Assistant is pretty much the name of the game when it comes to understanding natural la...

WELL, THIS FORUM'S ALREADY OFF TO AN INTERESTING START IBM's Project Codenet will teach AI to code in dozens different programming languages "Extremely vast dataset" IBM has announced Project CodeNet, a large dataset that aims to help teach AI how to understand and even write code. Project...

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I like this channel's creepy videos. Many of the stories are unproveable, but I enjoy scaring myself. https://www.youtube.com/c/BedtimeStoriesChannel There's a whole host of "creepy" YouTube channels, serving different niches. Dark5 Nexpo LEMMiNO Top...

Light show with 3,281 drones breaks Guinness World Record A luxury car company broke a Guinness World Record in China by using 3,281 drones to put on a light show in the night sky. The Genesis light show in Shanghai, which celebrated the brand's launch of the Genesis G80 car, featured 3,281 unmanne...

Relaunch of the old thread: You Perceive Time Differently in Virtual Reality, Scientists Say It’s easy to lose track of time when you allow yourself to get carried away while playing video games — but intriguingly, that effect appears to be far more noticeable when gaming in virtual reality. A team ...

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." ~ Albert Einstein Florida Man’s Hummer catches fire after leaving gas station with 4 containers full of gas A Hummer with four 5-gallon containers of gas caught fire in Citrus County on Wednes...

Relaunch of the old thread

Relaunch of the old thread, starting with the picture that started it all: View from the Window at Le Gras (1826) , the oldest surviving photograph https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020.png/1280px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colo...

Relaunch of the old Post Creepy Pics thread!

Relaunch of the old thread


Look at that beautiful curve!