Early in the military career of recently retired Marine Gen. David Berger, he and his wife, Donna, whom he had met when they were in sixth grade, made a promise to each other.
The young officer would get out of the Corps if he ever had three bad days in a row, he told reporters at the Modern Day Marine conference in Washington June 28.
That never happened.
“Why did I stay? The people,” Berger…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The first of four German-built diesel-electric attack submarines has arrived in Singapore, the Southeast Asian nation’s Defence Ministry announced.
The Impeccable was received at Singapore’s RSS Singapura—Changi Naval Base on Thursday during a…
WASHINGTON — Adm. Lisa Franchetti was five weeks into leading U.S. 6th Fleet when she oversaw the first-ever Tomahawk missile strike by a Virginia-class attack submarine.
Days after Syrian President Bashar Assad launched a chemical weapons attack on his people in April…
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Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that it has secured voluntary commitments from seven leading AI companies to manage the short- and long-term risks of AI models. Representatives from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft are set…
Generative AI is no laughing matter, as Sarah Silverman proved when she filed suit against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Meta for copyright infringement. She and novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey allege that the companies trained their large language models…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy leveraged air and surface drones throughout its two-week UNITAS 2023 naval exercise near Latin America, the first major event since service leadership announced the region would host the sea service’s second unmanned operations hub.
Following successful unmanned and artificial intelligence systems’ operations in the Middle East through Task Force 59, the Navy…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sees Mars in a New Light
July 21, 2023
In its first 400 days on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a diverse collection of organics – carbon-based molecules considered the building blocks of life – thanks to SHERLOC, an innovative instrument on the rover’s robotic arm. Scientists with the…
In mid-June, a team of freshwater researchers spent their nights drifting down Alaska’s Yukon River in an area that straddles the Arctic Circle. The hydrologists were using a GPS unit installed on their boat to measure the slope of the river at the same time that the…
ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
July 21, 2023
OpenAI today unveiled a potentially impactful feature for users for its ChatGPT Plus subscription service ($20/month): custom instructions, a new setting that users can toggle on when logged into their ChatGPT Plus account. The setting allows the AI chatbot to store information about how the user wants it to respond and behave, retaining this perspective even when the user closes one chat and…
