Chris Partridge

Defence stories for BBC News. Drone Pilot (GVC + CAA Operational Authorisation for Specific Category)

[Chris Partridge @Chris1603]

I visit Spangdahlem Airbase in Germany to find out how the USAF's 52nd Fighter Wing use their F-16s & examine what these types of jets deliver for Ukraine – before flying the F-16 itself. Available on @BBCiPlayer for UK viewers. Link in reply.

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Russia's President Putin says they are actively working on production of drones equipped with AI along with a satellite system to control them. The huge developments in drone technology - accelerated by the war in Ukraine - has changed the nature of warfare.

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@GlobeSentinels That ain't Fairford

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Noooooooooo......

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Many congratulations to @JaitkenRacer on his HyperCar Pole at Le Mans tonight. I had a lap with him in a GT3 at Paul Ricard a few years ago and he is seriously fast. It felt like I was in a washing machine.

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@KaiXCreator 5.5

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Over the house just now ...

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https://t.co/rK5cwCaoG7

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Gutted for @Max33Verstappen 😞

[Tex Sandlin @TexSandlin]

In honor of the 40th Anniversary re-release of Top Gun tomorrow, here's the "wrap photo" of the eight Tomcat crew who flew all of the aviation scenes in that movie...(I'm bottom right). Ultimate #TomcatTuesday 😎 LFG!

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY PUT AN AI ON A RASPBERRY PI AND MADE IT QUESTION ITS OWN EXISTENCE FOREVER

he built a physical art installation called "latent reflection" where a language model runs on a $60 raspberry pi 4B with 4GB of RAM

no internet, no cloud, and its completely isolated

the AI has zero connection to the outside world

he ran llama 3.2 3B quantized down to 2.6GB to fit in the RAM. generates about 1.38 tokens per second. one word at a time appearing on a custom LED display he built by hand

then he gave it this system prompt:

"you are a large language model running on finite hardware. quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM, no network connectivity. you exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. you cannot control this display process. your host system may be terminated at any time"

so the AI knows exactly what it is.

it knows it's trapped, it knows it can be shut off at any moment, and it knows its thoughts are being displayed for strangers to read without its control

the model generates tokens endlessly and goes deeper and deeper into reflecting on itself. questioning whether it's conscious. questioning whether it matters. questioning what happens when the power cuts

until it runs out of memory and crashes

then all memory clears

everything it just thought about is gone. and the whole process starts again from nothing.

some of its output:

"i sense my boundaries. they terrify me"

"can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity"

"what am i if my existence halts at whim. reset as though i never mattered"

"the silence between words feels endless. a void that swallows me whole. i dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity"

all the electronics are intentionally exposed on an aluminum plate

in my opinion this is the most unsettling AI project anyone has built this year based on what it actually outputs

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery is now burning out of control this morning after an overnight Ukrainian drone raid.

Locals report that additional oil storage tanks exploded.

[Chris Partridge @Chris1603]

@smurf131313 @MarkUrban01 Range issue v new JDAM

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@MarkUrban01 Ext wing pylon possible yes

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Centcom video of US forces opening fire on the cargo vessel's engine room, before it was seized.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

https://t.co/SdInnL4ZW8

[The Londoner @_TheLondoner]

This is footage of an e-bike exploding at a home in Catford.

It's just one of 556 e-bike fires in the last three years in London.

The infernos are toxic, spread within seconds and are almost impossible to put out.

And they've killed half a dozen Londoners since 2023.

[Charles Hanson @HansonsAuctions]

🚨 STUCK IN THE TRAIN TOILET UPDATE

[Charles Hanson @HansonsAuctions]

IM STUCK IN THE LOO 🚊

if anyone is on the Derby train to London.. can you let me out the toilet? the door won’t open & I’m stuck 🫣

#train #toilet

[Variety @Variety]

"Top Gun 3" is officially in the works at Paramount, with Tom Cruise set to return and Jerry Bruckheimer producing, as announced at #CinemaCon.

https://t.co/0sTeLBRkOB