A man has been hired to work full-time at a San Francisco-based tech startup called Turso — while serving his 11th year in prison, checking into work from his cell. As TechCrunch reports, Preston Thorpe was personally offered the job by Turso CEO Glauber Costa, who was inspired by Thorpe’s story. “I reached out to him… Continue reading Man in Prison Gets Hired as Software Engineer at Silicon Valley Startup, Works Every Day From Cell
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Band Appears on Stage With Poorly-Disguised Robot Playing the Keytar
During a Chinese music festival, a humanoid robot named “Adam” graced the stage in what was half performance art and half marketing stunt — and did so while semi-disguised in a loose-fitting hoodie that did a terrible job obscuring its mechanical legs and hands that made it very clear that it was, indeed, a robot. As spotted… Continue reading Band Appears on Stage With Poorly-Disguised Robot Playing the Keytar
CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI
Lest you forget that many CEOs are more than willing to fire you and replace you with a shoddy AI model with sociopathic glee, here are the words of one such executive at the forefront of displacing human labor. “CEOs are extremely excited about the opportunities that AI brings,” Elijah Clark, a chief executive who advises… Continue reading CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI
Hertz’ AI System That Scans for “Damage” on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
Back in April, the rental car company Hertz announced that it would be using UVeye, an AI damage scanning hardward and software system from a former defense contractor of the same name, to check its cars for damage after they were returned. It didn’t take long for problems to arise. As our sister site The Drive… Continue reading Hertz’ AI System That Scans for “Damage” on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself
Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human masters? Good news if your answer to that question is “yes”: a team of researchers from Columbia University have built a robot that can seek out and… Continue reading Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself
Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page “Photos” Really Came From
Subscribers to the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue were horrified after spotting a double-page ad for the brand Guess, featuring a blonde model who didn’t look quite right. Unsurprisingly, a small caption in the top left-hand corner revealed that the two images, which showed the fake model sporting two different looks, were “produced” by AI… Continue reading Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page “Photos” Really Came From
Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space
SpaceX has launched over 9,000 satellites into orbit, and the vast majority of them are still in operation today. As a result of that massive constellation, the Elon Musk-led firm controls over 60 percent of all active satellites currently in orbit. And the company’s actively working to launch tens of thousands more, in an effort to… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space
Man Wakes Up Partway Through His Organs Getting Harvested
Image by Getty / Futurism A man in Kentucky who had been declared brain dead following an overdose started showed signs of life once again — while, dramatically, doctors had already started harvesting his organs. As Lexington-based news station LEX 18 reports, TJ Hoover’s sister, Donna Rhorer, told a House subcommittee on organ donation safety lapses last week… Continue reading Man Wakes Up Partway Through His Organs Getting Harvested
Scientists Teach AI to Think About the Roman Empire
Historians don’t know when the Ancient Roman text “Res Gestae Divi Augusti,” a chronicle of Emperor Augustus’s deeds, was first written, since these kind of epigraphs tend to not contain any written dates. Enter our hero Aeneas — not the mythological forefather of Rome, but a generative AI model that’s been trained on Ancient Roman texts.… Continue reading Scientists Teach AI to Think About the Roman Empire
OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT has a sycophancy problem. With persuasive language and a human-like voice, the AI chatbot is prone to telling you whatever you want to hear — even if that means confirming your wildest delusions or encouraging your darkest impulses. In extreme cases, users are becoming so entranced by the bot’s silver tongue and always-available ear… Continue reading OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis