When OpenAI announced the release of GPT-5 this month, the company boasted about how it could supposedly produce “resonant writing with literary depth and rhythm.” In a lengthy post on his personal blog, University of Munich research fellow Christoph Heilig put that bold assertion to the test. What he found was bizarre: the model easily spits out material… Continue reading There’s Something Bizarre About When GPT-5 Writes in a Literary Style
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As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks’ Teeth Start to Dissolve
Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They’re older than the first trees, the North Star, and even the rings of Saturn. They’ve seen and been through it all — but the mounting effects of human driven climate change could be what finally proves too much for these ancient beings.… Continue reading As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks’ Teeth Start to Dissolve
Top Elon Musk Acolyte Running Large MDMA Empire
Image by Scott Olson / Getty / Futurism Since its initial synthesis by the German pharmaceutical company Merck in 1912, the drug 3,4-methylenedioxy-methylamphetamine (MDMA) — better known by the street terms “ecstasy” or “molly” — has lived many lives. From its brief time being tested as a top-secret truth serum in US Army trials to its… Continue reading Top Elon Musk Acolyte Running Large MDMA Empire
Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life
How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology — and scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a team of biologists say they’ve demonstrated how RNA molecules and amino acids could combine,… Continue reading Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life
New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market
If you’re struggling to sort the AI hype from reality, you’re not alone. The seemingly breakneck pace of AI development makes it tough to sort headlines from fantasy, with a constant flood of new products and incremental improvements to old ones combining into a rhetorical mess. Arguably the main economic risk of developing artificial intelligence… Continue reading New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market
Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars
If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally published a story claiming that watermelons had been found on the planet Mars. “Authorities say rise of fruit aliens is to blame for glut of outer space watermelons,” read the story,… Continue reading Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars
Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To
The New York Police Department is one of the most heavily equipped police forces on the planet. With over 48,000 full-time staff and a budget nearing $6 billion, the NYPD’s access to immense resources put it closer to the military force of entire countries like the Philippines and Iraq than a municipal agency. With that… Continue reading Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To
Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin
The US electrical grid is facing a stress test like never before. Thanks to a perfect storm of AI power consumption, climate crisis, crony capitalism, and a president bent on uprooting perfectly good energy infrastructure, the country’s already-struggling power system is rapidly crumbling as costs balloon into the stratosphere. A recent analysis by Bloomberg underscores just how… Continue reading Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin
Concern Grows That Elon Musk Is Having Some Kind of AI Meltdown
With all the frenzied news swirling around these days, it’s understandable if you let Elon Musk slip from the top of your mind. While the billionaire’s mental state was arguably frayed during his stint as DOGE czar — thanks in no small part to what’s been reported as a constant stream of illicit drugs —… Continue reading Concern Grows That Elon Musk Is Having Some Kind of AI Meltdown
The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs
Image by Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Futurism Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the well-heeled crackpot helming our nation’s healthcare system, holds all kinds of screwball beliefs about pharmaceuticals — but his bizarre and incoherent opposition to depression-treating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is perhaps the most indefensible. Since at least 2023, when Kennedy first launched… Continue reading The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs