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
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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
ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice
ChatGPT isn’t very good at knowing when to keep its mouth shut. That makes for a deadly combination with what it is very good at, which is being able to conjure up a response to pretty much anything you throw at it, having been trained on the entire corpus of human writing on the internet.… Continue reading ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice
The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating
Akin to a rapacious maw, the AI boom has swallowed up untold amounts of water, energy, and jobs lost to automation. Now add the rapidly dwindling housing stock in the Bay Area as even more tech workers crowd in, lured by the possibility of enriching themselves in this massive AI gold rush, according to reporting… Continue reading The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating
Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA
Image by Getty / Futurism One person’s junk is another’s treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of “junk” DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are actually pretty important after all. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Advances, focuses… Continue reading Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA
AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil
Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports. Worse still, these “hidden signals” appear completely meaningless to humans — and we’re not even sure, at this point, what the AI models are seeing… Continue reading AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil