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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, admitted to the emergency room after a brutal beating

The brutal beating that has been given to the rapper has occurred in his gym, LA Fitness. More specifically, in the sauna of the same.

Maybe if we talk about Daniel Hernandez you don’t know anything about him, but it will refresh your memory if we tell you that he is the real name of Tekashi 6ix9ine, one of the most controversial rappers of the international scene, who after appearing drunk during a Miami game and being kicked out of the stadium, has now starred in another brawl that has ended up in the ER.

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When I talk, you better listen

The brutal beating of the rapper occurred at his gym, LA Fitness. More specifically, in the sauna of the same, where a group of men burst in, beating him to the cry of “Shut the fuck up!” while they hit him in the stomach and in the head, which 6ix9ine tried to protect himself.

Doctors had to treat him, as soon as he entered, for injuries to his jaw, ribs and back. It should be noted that just at that moment, the rapper was without his usual security team: after spending a couple of years in jail for his membership in the street gang Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, his success has been devastating, but it seems that he has gained powerful enemies.

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And that’s because 6ix9ine sold out his former buddies to lessen his guilt, thus dropping him from decades to just a few years, but, as the lawyer warned him at the time, “he’ll always have to look over his shoulder.” There is no way of knowing if this attack had anything to do with selling out to the feds, but everything points to the fact that this movie-like situation will continue to keep him in the spotlight as Gooba, his biggest hit, already passes 827 million plays on YouTube. The two faces of fame.

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Innovative Robotics: Bender’s Great-Great-Grandfather? The First Robot with Eye Indicators

Agility Robotics has decided to take that headless bipedal contraption and put one with eyes on it, supposedly to improve human-robot interaction.

“Robot”, in its more classical Slavic variant, means “forced labor”. And, at the moment, robots, having no human feelings whatsoever, that’s exactly what they do for us. But rarely has the future hit us so head-on as with Digit, created in 2020 by Agility Robotics for Ford and tasked with packaging and distributing courier services. What no one imagined is that three years later, that robot would look almost human.

Kiss my shining metallic eyes

Agility Robotics has decided to take that headless bipedal contraption and put one with eyes on it to supposedly improve human-robot interaction. Digit is created to improve operations in company warehouses, and to avoid collisions of any kind, the eyes will now serve as the lights of a car, and will show when it is about to turn and to which location.

You may be afraid that robots, especially as artificial intelligence becomes more and more latent, will take away human jobs, but Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of Agility Robotics, thinks otherwise: “When people and robots work together in logistics operations, working conditions improve for people, warehouse efficiency improves, the distribution chain moves better. Everybody wins.

At the moment, Digit’s activities are not very varied. It can walk, jump and crouch, but its main function is to pick up and put down different types of objects up to 15 kilograms. One can only imagine that, in the future, with the technological advancement of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence mechanisms, Digit could become just another companion to chat with. And then we will have reached the ultimate science fiction.

Revolutionizing Space Science: Tool to Help Search for Life on Other Planets Unveiled

The tool in question is a technique for searching for water in space that uses the size of an exoplanet to estimate how much liquid is below its surface.

Water is life. It’s not just a catchy slogan: it’s also a reality. None of the planets we are exploring in outer space can support life of any kind, because they have no water to survive on. But that may change thanks to a new tool created by astronomers at Cambridge University with which they will be able to take one of the biggest steps towards colonizing other planets.

One step closer to Planet Express

The tool in question is a technique for finding water in space that uses the size of an exoplanet to estimate how much liquid lies beneath its surface. We don’t mean rivers, seas and waterfalls, but a certain amount of water locked in rocks and minerals kilometers from the surface. It’s not that flashy, but it may be the beginning of the creation of life (or human survival).

If we can know how many of these minerals are inside a planet, it is possible to get the water out of its interior, bring it back to the surface, and be able to replenish, for example, oceans that once disappeared due to intense heat or radiation. “This model gives us a limit on how much water a planet can carry in its interior, based on those materials and their ability to have water on their surface,” the scientists comment. Will we one day be able to bathe in Saturn’s oceans? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

For the time being, scientists will use this new branch of the search for planets to find those most likely to have alien life and study them more closely after triaging them. Of course, do not think that because a planet is huge it will have a lot of water in its interior: in fact, scientists point rather to planets similar in mass to Earth. For example, Venus. It is suspected that before it was the hottest planet in the solar system at about 475 degrees nothing, it had water on its surface.

If that is the case, we could help cool the planet thanks to this tool. Who knows? Maybe in the next few decades we will be able to go on a vacation resort to a small Venusian cove…

Celebrating National Poetry Day with ChatGPT’s Masterful Verses

Is a machine capable of creating valid and exciting artistic and creative material? Can an artificial intelligence understand human feelings and make us emotional?

“Softonic, my dear friend, your name is synonymous with software. Whenever I need something new, I know I can count on you to help me.” It may not be the best poem ever created, but for a poem created by ChatGPT in just fifteen seconds, it could be worse. Right now, poetry without copyright or human hands doesn’t interest us in the slightest. It has no quality, metrics, rhyme… Or knowledge of human feelings. But this has only just begun.

A poem written by ChatGPT

However, ChatGPT 4 is capable of doing more extraordinary things, such as talking about climate change in Shakespearean style, but it still keeps the question hanging over our heads: Is it art? Is a machine capable of creating valid and exciting artistic and creative material? Can an artificial intelligence understand human feelings and make us emotional?

To prove it, we asked ChatGPT 3 to write us a poem about love and spring. “Love blooms like flowers in spring, when the days are longer and the sun shines brighter. Hearts are filled with joy and hope, as nature renews itself with gentle caresses,” she tells us. She wouldn’t win any contests but it’s only fair to point out that the program was born on November 30, 2022 and she has a lot to learn.

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If creativity is the unusual, the unique, the never-before-seen, AI-created poetry lags behind because it is very unlikely that they can, at least for now, do anything other than try to replicate the human brain. Or, put another way, “They are sooner made to imitate than to be original. They learn to say the least surprising thing”, as Guillermo Marco and Julio Gonzalo write in El País.

To put it another way: if the result is fun and original, it’s because the basis itself is. If we ask ChatGPT to make us a Becquer-style poem about a man using a fork to poke into a socket, the result will seem original, but it is only because the initial idea is original: as the program is designed to preserve the meaning of the text, the aesthetic extravagances have to come from outside, with the human hand as the orchestra conductor.

If there is no intentionality there can be no art, and artificial intelligence, however useful it may be, is not yet capable of reflecting and understanding human feelings so much that its poems have a motive or a reflection behind them. Oh, and as you had been left wanting: “A curious man, eager to know, approached the socket with a fork in his possession. But danger lurked there, and his curiosity was going to cost him.” Pure poetry for a day like today.

The Complicated Relationship Between Microsoft Users and Clippy AI

To understand Clippy we have to go back to March 1995. It lasted twelve more years!

We live in a time of artificial intelligences, home assistants, smartphones and promises of a future in which to make a Powerpoint you only need to ask Copilot, the new Microsoft Office AI. But before Copilot, Siri, Alexa and even Google, there was already an assistant that spread terror every time you wanted to write anything with its unstable suggestions: Do you remember Clippy?

Clippy, no, I don’t want to write a letter

To understand Clippy we have to go back to March 1995, when Microsoft launched Bob, an alternative interface for Windows 95, Windows 3.1x and Windows NT in which you navigated the length and breadth of a house using what you found instead of icons. For example, if you clicked on a pen and paper on Bob’s desktop, it took you to the word processor, and if you selected a clock, it took you to the calendar. They expected to sell millions worldwide. They sold 58,000 copies.

Microsoft was not going to give up so easily: Bob had been a resounding failure, but from its ashes was born Clippy, the text assistant of Office 97, a paper clip with eyes that advised users on different ways to improve the formatting of their text and opened up the exciting world of Office. Famous was his “You look like you want to write a letter” every time you typed two or three words, but it was not the only one of his suggestions.

The culprit behind Clippy’s existence was Kevan Atteberry, who told Vice how they prepared more than 250 attendees to select the ones that the audience of Stanford test groups and social psychologists liked best: Clippy was the best in every respect. The problem is that people ended up hating him…although Atteberry has a theory: it’s not because of how he looked, but because of what they made him say and do. “No matter which character became the default character, they would do the same things and probably be hated as well.”

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And along with Clippy there was a whole host of characters that everyone wanted to ignore, from a red ball to a superhero dog to a robot and even a caricature of William Shakespeare. By the time the Office Assistant experiment ended with the release of 2007, there were 23, including some Mac exclusives or Asian editions (the Kairu dolphin).

The future may have a few surprises in store for us in 2023, organizing our mails automatically, preparing summaries and even conversing with us without asking us if we are preparing a letter, but a small part of us will always know that all this would not have been possible without a paper clip with eyes. Try explaining it to someone from generation Z without them looking at you like you’re speaking Chinese.

Brick by Brick Race: LEGO’s Latest Creation Challenges Mario Kart

LEGO has set to work to put all its pieces together and create a competitor to match: LEGO 2K Drive

Since Super Mario Kart took Super Nintendo by storm thirty years ago, there have been hundreds of games that have tried to follow in its wake with all kinds of results. We have seen characters from Nickelodeon, Disney and even from the Crash Bandicoot or Sonic sagas racing in karts, but nothing has ever been able to stand up to our friends from the Mushroom Kingdom.

Open world, destroyed parts

However, LEGO has set to work to put all its pieces together and create a competitor to match: LEGO 2K Drive, which will bring together the toy construction magnate with 2K, responsible for sagas like Bioshock or NBA 2K. The weirdest thing is that it has not only been announced as a racing game, but also… Open world!

At the moment, besides some images, only the name of the first tracks where we will race has been leaked: Runaway Roundabout, Rapid Falls, Swampus, Cat Scratch Freeway, Down on the Farm, Glazed Overdrive, Headless Horsepower and Chasm Crossing. How will the classic kart tracks fit in with the open world concept? That is something that nobody knows yet, but in the menus of the game it has been possible to see the indication of “Shared World” that perhaps unites, in an online way, all the circuits.

Of course, and this should come as no surprise to anyone, 2K is already planning on how to monetize the game with in-game purchases. Since it’s still in the testing process, we’re still a while away from seeing it. It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time LEGO has been attracted to the smell of burning tire on asphalt (so to speak): LEGO Racers was already a hit on Nintendo 64, and Drome Racers, set in the future and dangerous year 2015, made its appearance on PlayStation 2, GameCube and Game Boy Advance.

Ready to leave the asphalt full of blocks?