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Yes Rocket he is a long term genuine poster of Danish extraction living in Uruguay with his wife and child who has strong views about the corrupting nature of power due to lived experience.

I think he went a bit far with his equating the actions of the police state against terrorists with anti vaccination campaigners but their is some truth in his words.
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AKIDA BALLISTA
Fact Finder, I couldn´t have answered better myself, but from you it comes with more authority and I´m happy that you see some truth in it.

As a wrote in the end
"I´m not trying to be partisan, but just paint the picture with a bit more color.

I´m not really on anybody´s side here and will be investing in Brainchip again, I´m just rhetorically provoking a bit of perspective."
 
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As Sean noted in his last interview, the PCIe boards are shipping out now. I'm not sure if they're being assembled in multiple locations, but it appears my order is being shipped from their Laguna Hills location.



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@Fact Finder I think this is where the development of a neocortex is most likely the solution..🤔

Interesting article but what seems likely is that this is going to burn through the watts like a hot knife through butter.

The idea that mass produced autonomous vehicles will work if they are burning huge amounts of energy to be autonomous is a sick joke quite frankly.

On paper the financial costs of human drivers in a taxi or Uber probably allows the number to stack up for business owners. No holidays, long service, overtime, penalty rates, wages, sick leave, long service leave, superannuation, workers comp and admin costs.

Waymo can offer a 50 percent increase in gross profits to a taxi operator by removing human drivers while trebling the energy being burnt.

This appeals to the taxi operator but not to the planet and it’s finite resources.

The direction being pioneered by Mercedes is the direction the planet needs humanity to pursue.

Every single aspect of production and technology needs to be reinvented. This is Mercedes’ approach.

I subscribed to the Mercedes updates when the EQXX was announced and have yet to work out how to post relevant material here but todays release was about the way in which they are recycling materials and using hydrogen to produce low carbon steel to build the first generation EV’s and achieve a net zero complete EV transformation by 2038.

The AKD2000 is in play. The cortical column is somewhere on or beyond the bench.

A better way has to be found. We keep making decisions as a species based on a false premise or incomplete knowledge.

I was reading some just released research and it has proven that every organism of every type on the planet (including plants) produce methane yet poor cows have been labelled as the culprits.

The reality is that science has worked out how to mitigate methane from cows but this brand new research has changed the game and another 2 billion humans being added to the worlds population each producing methane, needing power and food just keeps adding complexity.

I have said it before science is the only hope for a solution and if Peter van der Made and Anil Mankar and those who work with them succeed in achieving their ultimate objective Artificial General Intelligence at power consumption rates that make the human brain look like an energy sponge then they will have played a significant part in solving the planets problems.

My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA

PS: I wonder if this comes to pass will the price manipulators brag to their great grand children about what they were doing while Peter and Anil were attempting to help humanity.
 
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As Sean noted in his last interview, the PCIe boards are shipping out now. I'm not sure if they're being assembled in multiple locations, but it appears my order is being shipped from their Laguna Hills location.



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Afternoon JDelekto,

Cheers, may I ask what date you purchased this 1Lb of goodness.

Regards,
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Fred isn’t a downramper - he/she is one of our German chippers.
There´s some truth to that, I´m genetically partly german, Danish authorities would call me a Dane, I consider my self Uruguayan now and waiting to become a citizen of Uruguay by the end of the year :D
 
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Hey Frederik.
Every hammer can be used on heads or hands.
Every saw can cut necks.
Every laser can blind as well as illuminate.
Every medicine given in a sufficiently high dosage will be lethal.
Because eyes can look down a weapons sight would you blind us all?
We are producing a mechanism, a tool, any of which can be put to both beneficial and wicked purpose.
I think we are already cognisant of that fact.
Just look at our catch cry..... :)
AKIDA BALLISTA.
AKIDA EVERYWHERE.
GLTAH.
I agree.

I didn´t try to win a popularity contest by writing it, but just to put the recent discussion a little into perspective. What is beneficial AI anyway? :D
 
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JDelekto

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Afternoon JDelekto,

Cheers, may I ask what date you purchased this 1Lb of goodness.

Regards,
Esq.

January 17th of this year, so it's been about 8 weeks which I believe was within in their estimated shipping timeframe at the time I ordered.

I am having it shipped to a US address and it is scheduled to be sent on the 18th (this Friday for me). So given I chose the economy shipping option, three business days isn't that bad.

If they are all shipping out of California, then I would expect economy shipping via FedEx to Australia would be about 6 to 10 business days.
 
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Glad AI wasn’t around when I was growing up.
I´m glad that I don´t have to compete in a job market where Brainchip exists, so I´m doing the best I can with my 9 year old son. He loves investing, chess, strategy board games, gardening, cooking, art, theater and is ahead in every topic in school, he´s developing a plethora of skills and speaking four languages. Sadly he hates programming, but does some with his Lego Mindstorm, because he wants it to do stuff.
 
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I´m glad that I don´t have to compete in a job market where Brainchip exists, so I´m doing the best I can with my 9 year old son. He loves investing, chess, strategy board games, gardening, cooking, art, theater and is ahead in every topic in school, he´s developing a plethora of skills and speaking four languages. Sadly he hates programming, but does some with his Lego Mindstorm, because he wants it to do stuff.
Hi Frederick, you might like to checkout VEX Robotics for your 9 year old son. Coding, senses, robotics and competitions. It’s the best lead in to an AI education that I have seen.
 
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JDelekto

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I´m glad that I don´t have to compete in a job market where Brainchip exists, so I´m doing the best I can with my 9 year old son. He loves investing, chess, strategy board games, gardening, cooking, art, theater and is ahead in every topic in school, he´s developing a plethora of skills and speaking four languages. Sadly he hates programming, but does some with his Lego Mindstorm, because he wants it to do stuff.

I became interested in programming at a very young age, while personal computers were still in the "wild west" era. Your comment, "because he wants it to do stuff" really hits home. The first computer I ever used was the Osborne 1 in 1981 that my father brought home from work to learn how to use a spreadsheet for crunching numbers.

I ended up spending more time on a weekend playing with that luggable beast. One of his co-workers, who saw my interest in the computer told me, "if you learn the language of the machine, you can make it do anything you want it to do." From there, the rest is history.

I've always been interested in AI back in the days when Eliza had been ported to various home computers. Nothing like the machine learning and neural networks of today. While I never worked with AI formally, it's still one of the programming hobbies I enjoy along with game development outside of the professional realm of scheduling software. :)
 
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Hi Frederick, you might like to checkout VEX Robotics for your 9 year old son. Coding, senses, robotics and competitions. It’s the best lead in to an AI education that I have seen.
Thanks! Hompage looks catchy, just maybe he´ll do the Akida in a few years :D
 
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I became interested in programming at a very young age, while personal computers were still in the "wild west" era. Your comment, "because he wants it to do stuff" really hits home. The first computer I ever used was the Osborne 1 in 1981 that my father brought home from work to learn how to use a spreadsheet for crunching numbers.

I ended up spending more time on a weekend playing with that luggable beast. One of his co-workers, who saw my interest in the computer told me, "if you learn the language of the machine, you can make it do anything you want it to do." From there, the rest is history.

I've always been interested in AI back in the days when Eliza had been ported to various home computers. Nothing like the machine learning and neural networks of today. While I never worked with AI formally, it's still one of the programming hobbies I enjoy along with game development outside of the professional realm of scheduling software. :)
To be honest, I never liked programming too, but I wanted to make a travel homepage that I could update via an interface, before I had to travel for 8 months. So besides a 50 hours job, I used one month to learn ASP and connecting it to an Access database, making a menu system, aweful coding, but it worked.

Funny, I found a ghost of it here:
 
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I hope we all treat the current price as a distant memory in the very near future.
My view of the current price wouldn't change even if it was $5 per share because I have no intention of selling.
Those of us in it for the dividends will eventually earn many times more than the current share price in dividends per share.
I look forward to the day when a 5% trading range equates to $10. Then I can tell my friends I'm up or down a million dollars for the day.
Until then I will support my fellow chippers by buying more.
VG
Spot on Vic!
 
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I read today the world wide automotive industry is worth 2.7 trillion dollars CURRENTLY. In its transition to EV much more will be spent each year through to 2040.

I have read that the automotive semiconductor slice of this pie for EV will be 200 billion by 2040. (This is for traditional uses but does not include Brain interface etc;)

I personally believe it cannot credibly be argued that Brainchip will not capture some of this outrageously huge market given the present knowledge regarding Mercedes, Valeo and Ford at least.

Being impossibly conservative such share has to be at least one tenth of one percent of 200 billion US dollars.

So just from automotive this would result in a measly annual 200 million US dollars in revenue by 2040.

Add to this one percent of the current 450 billion defence spending.

Add to this NASA revenue.

Add to this MegaChips revenue.

Add to this Renesas MCU revenue.

Add to this the medical technology market revenue via Biotome and NaNose.

As I said it all makes FF very happy.

My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
This is why u are the captain! Very well summarised ..
 
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I agree.

I didn´t try to win a popularity contest by writing it, but just to put the recent discussion a little into perspective. What is beneficial AI anyway? :D
Thanks Frederik, and nice to have you back amongst us.
I'll just let my good friend HAL answer that for you.........:)

 
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January 17th of this year, so it's been about 8 weeks which I believe was within in their estimated shipping timeframe at the time I ordered.

I am having it shipped to a US address and it is scheduled to be sent on the 18th (this Friday for me). So given I chose the economy shipping option, three business days isn't that bad.

If they are all shipping out of California, then I would expect economy shipping via FedEx to Australia would be about 6 to 10 business days.
Ordered same day, no shipping as yet. All good, it'll come
 
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Cerence adds KT voice assistant support to Mercedes-Benz vehicles in South Korea​



February 17, 2022 at 3:30 pm

Mercedes-Benz Korea is building the first car to run the Cerence voice AI platform to support KT’s GiGA Genie voice assistant. Cerence’s upgraded cloud service capabilities enable the new car to deliver the South Korean telecom giant’s voice AI using the Cerence Cognitive Arbiter.

Sirens Elf​

Cerence launched Cognitive Arbiter in early 2020 as a tool for automakers to provide multiple simultaneously available voice assistants in the car. The system routes user requests to the most relevant voice assistant based on the driver’s request. The Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) virtual assistant platform is powered by Cerence Worldwide. Korean-built cars will still use MBUX, but will incorporate KT’s GiGA Genie into the system as an additional AI. The Cognitive Arbiter will automatically enable Korean speech AI via the standard MBUX system when the driver makes a request that the GiGA Genie is best suited to meet. Drivers don’t have to choose which voice assistant to respond; the AI intuitively answers based on its understanding of the query and its ability to access the assistant.
“GiGA Genie has been the driving force behind the growing popularity of voice assistants in Korea,” said Kangrim Choi, head of KT’s AI mobile business. “We’re proud to partner with Cerence to bring GiGA Genie into a whole new environment, offering a seamless, integrated product that gives drivers easy access to the assistant’s content, services and features on the go.”

multi-voice car​

Cerence created Cognitive Arbitrator to bring together resources from platforms such as Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Alexa Auto that do not include controls for in-vehicle functions. The company envisions drivers asking their car’s voice AI to answer a question or play a song, and the response from the Alexa skill would be as smooth as the built-in Siri feature. While voice AI built into cars is now more likely to be associated with well-known voice assistants, multiple-choice platforms will still appeal to some automakers. It’s similar to why Fiat Chrysler (now Stellantis) pioneered the Alexa custom assistant, a brand’s voice AI linked to the full Alexa resource.
Since the release of Cognitive Arbitrator, Cerence has made major upgrades to its platform. The company launched Cerence Drive 2.0 and its connected cloud service more than a year ago, improving the accuracy and speed of connecting voice assistants, and has quickly rolled out new features in the months since. The Cerence Look tool, which combines an online database with gaze-tracking cameras to share insights into what drivers are looking at and related tour guide features, joined the active and multimodal Cerence Co-Pilot in December, which analyzes data from car sensors and The human-entered data predicts the driver’s wishes, ideally skipping the need for wake words and simply saying yes or no to the suggestions made to the driver. The benefits of Cerence expanding its platform to include KT and GiGA Genie are obvious.
“The digital lives of consumers around the world continue to expand to encompass a variety of assistants and services. As their ecosystems become more complex, interoperability becomes key, especially in cars,” explains Cerence CEO Stefan Ortmanns. “By leveraging our Cerence Cognitive Arbitrator to make the GiGA Genie accessible through the car assistant, KT is firmly establishing its commitment to a simple, intuitive user experience. We are delighted to partner with KT and support our long-term partner Mercedes- Mercedes-Benz because they are bringing this important feature to drivers of select Mercedes-Benz models in Korea.”
 
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JK200SX

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Cerence adds KT voice assistant support to Mercedes-Benz vehicles in South Korea​



February 17, 2022 at 3:30 pm

Mercedes-Benz Korea is building the first car to run the Cerence voice AI platform to support KT’s GiGA Genie voice assistant. Cerence’s upgraded cloud service capabilities enable the new car to deliver the South Korean telecom giant’s voice AI using the Cerence Cognitive Arbiter.

Sirens Elf​

Cerence launched Cognitive Arbiter in early 2020 as a tool for automakers to provide multiple simultaneously available voice assistants in the car. The system routes user requests to the most relevant voice assistant based on the driver’s request. The Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) virtual assistant platform is powered by Cerence Worldwide. Korean-built cars will still use MBUX, but will incorporate KT’s GiGA Genie into the system as an additional AI. The Cognitive Arbiter will automatically enable Korean speech AI via the standard MBUX system when the driver makes a request that the GiGA Genie is best suited to meet. Drivers don’t have to choose which voice assistant to respond; the AI intuitively answers based on its understanding of the query and its ability to access the assistant.
“GiGA Genie has been the driving force behind the growing popularity of voice assistants in Korea,” said Kangrim Choi, head of KT’s AI mobile business. “We’re proud to partner with Cerence to bring GiGA Genie into a whole new environment, offering a seamless, integrated product that gives drivers easy access to the assistant’s content, services and features on the go.”

multi-voice car​

Cerence created Cognitive Arbitrator to bring together resources from platforms such as Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Alexa Auto that do not include controls for in-vehicle functions. The company envisions drivers asking their car’s voice AI to answer a question or play a song, and the response from the Alexa skill would be as smooth as the built-in Siri feature. While voice AI built into cars is now more likely to be associated with well-known voice assistants, multiple-choice platforms will still appeal to some automakers. It’s similar to why Fiat Chrysler (now Stellantis) pioneered the Alexa custom assistant, a brand’s voice AI linked to the full Alexa resource.
Since the release of Cognitive Arbitrator, Cerence has made major upgrades to its platform. The company launched Cerence Drive 2.0 and its connected cloud service more than a year ago, improving the accuracy and speed of connecting voice assistants, and has quickly rolled out new features in the months since. The Cerence Look tool, which combines an online database with gaze-tracking cameras to share insights into what drivers are looking at and related tour guide features, joined the active and multimodal Cerence Co-Pilot in December, which analyzes data from car sensors and The human-entered data predicts the driver’s wishes, ideally skipping the need for wake words and simply saying yes or no to the suggestions made to the driver. The benefits of Cerence expanding its platform to include KT and GiGA Genie are obvious.
“The digital lives of consumers around the world continue to expand to encompass a variety of assistants and services. As their ecosystems become more complex, interoperability becomes key, especially in cars,” explains Cerence CEO Stefan Ortmanns. “By leveraging our Cerence Cognitive Arbitrator to make the GiGA Genie accessible through the car assistant, KT is firmly establishing its commitment to a simple, intuitive user experience. We are delighted to partner with KT and support our long-term partner Mercedes- Mercedes-Benz because they are bringing this important feature to drivers of select Mercedes-Benz models in Korea.”
.... and just being a devils advocate here (not a downramper by any means)......... Considering Mercedes have publicly announced their association with Brainchip, and also the fact that Cerence are the suppliers of the MBUX system, why cant we find any hard link between BRN and Cerence? ie why would we not see BRN or AKIDA referenced in any webpages that we can find Cerence and MBUX being discussed?

If AKIDA is in effect a subset of the Cerence system, then it shouldn't be a surprise by now, right?

Or, could it be that MB are integrating AKIDA functionality separately in the vehicle and as part of a complete system it will interface with the MBUX? Thinking about it, the most AKIDA IP/chips will be integrated into the edge devices/sensors. The purpose of these edge devices/ sensors is to neuromorphically compute/calculate/output the correct signal to perhaps the MBUX or other systems in the car and then the system performs the correct function.

(Like others, just a little frustrated, but not selling any shares :) )
 
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