Are you looking forward to a future of casual but supercharged surveillance, in which inconspicuous wearable devices record everything private you do — ostensibly in service of making you “super intelligent?” Evidently, readers, you are not. Users on social media have responded with horror and outrage to a pair of smart glasses developed by a startup… Continue reading People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly
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Epstein’s Top Child Trafficker Says She Partied With Elon Musk in the Caribbean
You know that infamous photo of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posing with Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman convicted of trafficking minor girls for the deceased billionaire Jeffrey Epstein? Musk has long dismissed the picture, saying in 2020 that it was taken when Maxwell “photobombed” him at an event hosted by Vanity Fair. “Don’t know… Continue reading Epstein’s Top Child Trafficker Says She Partied With Elon Musk in the Caribbean
CEO Demands Employees Start Using AI, Fires Anyone Who Doesn’t
Almost three years since the release of OpenAI’s explosively popular ChatGPT, it’s clear that artificial intelligence isn’t exactly taking the job market by storm. Sure, AI makes a convenient cover for business executives who were already looking to downsize or outsource their labor force, but the tech’s myriad hallucination issues, legal risks, and security baggage… Continue reading CEO Demands Employees Start Using AI, Fires Anyone Who Doesn’t
New Paper Finds Cases of “AI Psychosis” Manifesting Differently From Schizophrenia
Researchers at King’s College London have examined over a dozen cases of people spiraling into paranoid and delusional behavior after obsessively using a chatbot. Their findings, as detailed in a new study awaiting peer review, reveal striking patterns between these instances of so-called “AI psychosis” that parallel other forms of mental health crises — but… Continue reading New Paper Finds Cases of “AI Psychosis” Manifesting Differently From Schizophrenia
OpenAI Warns Against Investing in Its Stock
OpenAI isn’t a publicly-traded company — yet, at least — and as such, the company’s express written consent is necessary for the sale or transfer of its equity. But that massive caveat has not, apparently, stopped sleazy operators from trying to rip would-be investors off with shady promises of buying into the red-hot artificial intelligence giant. In a… Continue reading OpenAI Warns Against Investing in Its Stock
Trump Embraces Socialism, Nationalizes Failing Chipmaker
Politicians can end up with strange bedfellows in this chaotic age, but certain economic tenets are virtually incontrovertible: calls to nationalize industry typically come from the left, while the right steadfastly opposes those efforts in favor of market-based solutions. And yet, for some reason, the ever-chaotic president Donald Trump has directed the US government to… Continue reading Trump Embraces Socialism, Nationalizes Failing Chipmaker
Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time
Image by Getty / Futurism For the first time in history, scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human patient. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of researchers transplanted the lung into the body of a 39-year-old male who had previously been… Continue reading Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time
Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients
Image by Getty / Futurism Last week, Google AI pioneer Jad Tarifi sparked controversy when he told Business Insider that it no longer makes sense to get a medical degree — since, in his telling, artificial intelligence will render such an education obsolete by the time you’re a practicing doctor. Companies have long touted the… Continue reading Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients
Meta Defector Issues Devastating Psychological Takedown of Tech CEOs
Nick Clegg, a former Meta executive who left the company at the start of this year, has led many lives. Before jumping ship to the tech world, he was a deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, a leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrat party, and a member of Parliament — and still, the hubris… Continue reading Meta Defector Issues Devastating Psychological Takedown of Tech CEOs
The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension
The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional theories have suggested for years that the gas giant’s behemoth interior was formed following an enormous collision with an early planet. The “giant impact”… Continue reading The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension