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nightflameauto writes:
AI companies are purchasing books from pre-AI times. The claim is that those books are free from the defects of AI generated text, and therefore more valuable for ingestion into AI datasets. In order to accomplish this, they are tearing the books down to be scanned, then destroying them as the scans are completed. This includes rare and out-of-print books that may be some of the few copies of any given published work left in existence.
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nightflameauto writes:
Japan has a working prototype of a real Gundam that is currently undergoing testing at the Gundam Factory.
No, that's not the plot of some silly sci-fi movie, it's actually happening. There's a somewhat sensationally titled video available of the 8 meter/60 foot robot assembly running some small movement tests where it twists its torso and lifts a leg, then places it back down. Small steps, but the initial plan is to have this beast debut this October in free-standing/walking form.
Welcome to 2020. We may have calamity upon calamity, but at least we've got a Gundam.
