<div dir="ltr"><div>Speaking of Ai. A youtube video I watched the other day says that a battle bot named Honest Abe might be one of the first mostly autonomous  bots for battle bots. It some house uses machine learning and machine vision to make it&#39;s way around the pit.  It&#39;s surreal seeing this 200 pound machine be a better driver than humans. Sounds like something you might keep an eye on. Anyone know more on the story? the video only said the judges were debating if it&#39;d be safe to try it. Some other bot makers got a bot to self drive and it made it to the semi finals before being yeeted out of the arena.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:08 AM Tom Johnson &lt;<a href="mailto:jtjohnson555@gmail.com">jtjohnson555@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Subscribed to too many listservs<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">=======================<br>Tom Johnson<br>Inst. for Analytic Journalism<br>Santa Fe, New Mexico<br>505-577-6482<br>=======================</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 9:56 AM Gillian Densmore &lt;<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>How on earth do you find these things? lol. <br></div><div>And two AI links in a row?</div><div> are we sure you&#39;re not a bot? :P</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:46 AM Tom Johnson &lt;<a href="mailto:jtjohnson555@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jtjohnson555@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/?utm_source=engagement_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=wklysun&amp;utm_term=gift-promo1-121822&amp;utm_content=12.18.22.non-subs_eng&amp;mc_cid=89856a4cda&amp;mc_eid=4866eb5609" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/?utm_source=engagement_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=wklysun&amp;utm_term=gift-promo1-121822&amp;utm_content=12.18.22.non-subs_eng&amp;mc_cid=89856a4cda&amp;mc_eid=4866eb5609</a><br><br><div>=======================<br>Tom Johnson<br>Inst. for Analytic Journalism<br>Santa Fe, New Mexico<br>505-577-6482<br>=======================</div></div>
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