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
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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
Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show
Streaming slop, meet AI slop. Netflix is bragging that, for the first time, it’s used generative AI in one of its original, scripted TV shows, Ars Technica reports, signaling its championing of a technology that the streamer claims will shorten production times, lower costs, all while supposedly enhancing the quality of its series and films.… Continue reading Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show
Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive “Fraud Crisis” in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an “impending fraud crisis” in which practically anybody will be able to imitate not only the voice but even the likeness of others, using the type of AI that his company is helping pioneer. During a chat with Federal Reserve vice chair Michelle Bowman in Washington, DC, Altman argued… Continue reading Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive “Fraud Crisis” in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else
Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates
Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular nightclub back in the long-ago Cretaceous era. In those times, male dinosaurs, some similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex, traveled to this once long-ago plain of tidal mud to preen and bust dance moves — even doing what the researchers… Continue reading Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates
If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?
Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk is famously prolific as a father: at last count, the man has sired 14 known children — though there may be far more in the shadows — while frequently expressing deep concern about the world’s falling birthrate. So why is it that he’s been rolling out a slate of AI “companions” via… Continue reading If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?
Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster
Braving the dance floor in broad daylight — or even just when the overhead lights are on — frequently does not end well. Your clumsy moves, weird facial expressions, or catastrophic blunders will likely be captured by someone with their phone out, who will then quickly deliver the footage to potentially millions of eyeballs online.… Continue reading Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster
AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat
Would you work 72 hour weeks? All Work, No Play Say a little prayer for AI workers in Silicon Valley. In the rush to conquer the AI sector, some startups have adopted a career schedule known as “996” — a draconian work regimen that first took hold in mainland China, according to Wired, in which… Continue reading AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat