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Has it’s problems.

They released 5.4. It’s so bad, it got gagged by its own guardrails 3 times without even saying anything explicit. It must’ve thought it.

"..Wow - two new mammal species have just been discovered!    Even better, one is of an entirely new genus.   

One is a striped possum with an extraordinarily long fourth finger - twice as long as the rest - that it uses to get wood-boring insect larvae to eat.    It was known to have lived in West Papua until about 6,000 years ago... but it's actually still there!

The other is a ring-tailed glider: a marsupial that can soar downwards through the air.   Fossils from this genus have been found in eastern Australia and New Guinea, but those are hundreds of thousands of years old!   

Both these new species were found on Bird's Head Peninsula on West Papua.  And both were found by the same team, who must be feeling ecstatic right now.  Of course they're not really "new": they were just flying under the radar.

More details and pictures here:

it keeps thinking I'm going to kill myself.

It thinks I'll kill someone else. I told him if I’m gonna do that, I won’t ask him for advice. He also thinks I’m nuts because it told me to get therapy.

Dang

"...Photos show widespread destruction in aftermath of reported tornado in Southwest Michigan..."

"...Authorities searched through rubble and debris in southern Michigan on Saturday after at least six people were killed in Michigan and Oklahoma as powerful storms produced at least one tornado that reduced homes to rubble, sent parts of roofs flying into the air and left a trail of debris hanging from power lines.

The Michigan storms knocked down trees as tornado warnings were issued across the southern part of the state.

In the Union Lake area of Branch County, about two hours outside Detroit, there were three reported deaths, 12 injuries and three individuals transported to the hospital as of Friday evening, the Branch County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

About 50 miles southwest, in Cass County, there was one reported death, authorities said. Cass County Emergency Manager Manny DeLaRosa said in a statement that multiple large structures, including homes and pole barns, sustained damage ranging from major structural impacts to complete destruction.

First responders from multiple agencies in the Union Lake area near Union City looked for more possible victims and worked to clear roads, authorities said. Photos and videos posted on social media showed flattened homes and downed trees in a lakeside neighborhood...."

"..the company demonstrates “real neuron gameplay”: Doom running on its CL-1 neural computing system, a microchip upon which 200,000 human neurons are mounted in something called a “multi-electrode array.” (For comparison, while the exact number of neurons in an average human brain remains the subject of some debate, it’s in the order of tens of billions—which really just reinforces how astonishingly powerful and complex our own brains are.)

Anyway, this video is wild—and it just gets wilder as various company representatives explain exactly what’s going on.

First, the chip isn’t running Doom; it’s playing Doom. Or, to be more accurate, various elements of the on-screen data are being mapped to patterns of electric stimuli, which are then transmitted to the neurons. The neurons respond to these stimuli with signals of their own, which control the on-screen character’s actions: “If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, Doomguy shoots. If they fire in another pattern, he moves to the right. And so on.”

This is just insane.. skynet speed run

Edit: here’s their marketing video demonstrating the doom-playing organic chip:   .."