... with drone ships, autonotons, and big brother.

* Originally in: Dovenet TechTalk
* Originally by: TLDR

From TLDR 2024-02-09

ON WHETHER WE'RE LIVING IN A SIMULATION (12 MINUTE READ) [15]

There's no point in worrying if we're living in a simulation.

SPACEX TESTS USING DRONE SHIPS TO SUPPORT STARLINK COVERAGE AT SEA (2
MINUTE READ) [6]

SpaceX is using its drone ships, designed to act as landing pads for
rockets, as gateway stations to bolster Starlink's cover at sea. The
company applied for a temporary FCC license last month to test
operating up to 12 earth station antennas over the drone ships. SpaceX
hasn't revealed details about how the drone ships will serve as
backhaul without dedicated fiber connections. The FCC is still
weighing the application.

THE MOST PROMISING AI SMART GLASSES ARE FROM A BRAND YOU'VE NEVER
HEARD OF (4 MINUTE READ) [7]

Brilliant Labs' Frame smart glasses feature an integrated multimodal
AI assistant. It lets users navigate and interact with the physical
world with multimodal generative AI agents. The glasses use a wide
range of AI models to answer questions. Frame has a front-facing
sensor to capture images to answer questions, but it discards the data
shortly after. It requires a smartphone with an internet connection to
operate. A video introducing the device is available in the article.

ALL NEURAL NETWORKS. ALL AUTONOMOUS. ALL 1X SPEED (4 MINUTE READ) [8]

1X deployed its system to learn motor behaviors end-to-end from
vision using neural networks in 2023. It recently released a video
sharing some of the new capabilities its humanoid androids have
learned purely end-to-end from data. The video shows the robots
picking up items from shelves and placing them into containers, moving
objects from the floor to a box, and performing various other tasks.
Every behavior seen in the video is controlled by a single
vision-based neural network that emits actions at 10Hz. All
capabilities in the video were trained by 1X's android operators.

THE ONE-PERSON BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY (13 MINUTE READ) [11]

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman recently said that a one-person
billion-dollar company may soon emerge. This will supposedly be made
possible with AI tools as work could be outsourced to an army of
artificial intelligence agents. The size of the distribution required,
coupled with the ability of anyone to make anything with the same AI
tools, makes the one-person billion-dollar company incredibly
challenging if not impossible. There's a significant opportunity for
ambitious people to build solo businesses in the $1-10 million ARR
range, but after that, it's probably best to hire people to help grow
anyway.

GOOGLE SAVES YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH GEMINI FOR YEARS BY DEFAULT (2
MINUTE READ) [17]

Google has released a new support document that outlines the ways in
which it collects data from Gemini users.

Links:
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[6] https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-tests-using-drone-ships-to-support-starlink-coverage-at-sea?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[7] https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-promising-ai-smart-glasses-are-from-a-brand-youve-never-heard-of/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[8] https://www.1x.tech/discover/all-neural-networks-all-autonomous-all-1x-speed?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[11] https://every.to/napkin-math/the-one-person-billion-dollar-company?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[15] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7774&utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[17] https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/google-saves-your-conversations-with-gemini-for-years-by-default/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

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