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
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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
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence, echoing widespread concerns that the technology could have devastating effects on the human labor market. During his most recent trip to Washington, DC, Altman told Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision Michelle Bowman that “some areas” in the job… Continue reading Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs
Surgeon Accused of Getting His Own Legs Cut Off for Insurance Reasons
A British surgeon has been accused of having his legs amputated to fraudulently claim insurance money, The Guardian reports. But this story has another gruesome twist: the doctor was the client of Marius Gustavson, named the “eunuch maker,” who ran a website filled with videos and images of castrations and other extreme body modifications that… Continue reading Surgeon Accused of Getting His Own Legs Cut Off for Insurance Reasons
Detroit’s Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More
Wall-E has some competition. At a city-owned beach in Detroit, a pilotless vehicle can be seen roaming over the sands as it picks up flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shore. The machine is a BeBot litter robot, and it and other mobile bots have become increasingly common signs in Motown, according to Crain’s… Continue reading Detroit’s Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More
Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space
The molecules that form the building blocks to life may be far more common in space than once thought, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute. Their work, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reports the detection of over a dozen types of complex organic molecules swimming closely around a protostar in the constellation Orion,… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space
AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree
If your human therapist encouraged you to kill yourself or other people, it would rightly spell the end of their professional career. Yet that’s exactly what video journalist Caelan Conrad got when they tested Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda’s claim that her company’s chatbot could “talk people off the ledge” when they’re in need of counseling. Conrad documented… Continue reading AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree
Tesla Sold Its Bitcoin at Pretty Much the Worst Moment Imaginable
Talk about a missed opportunity. Horrible Timing Tesla massively missed the mark in the second quarter of this year, conceding this week that its automotive revenue fell a whopping 16 percent from last year, on top of last quarter’s financial woes. As sales continue to plummet worldwide, the Elon Musk-led EV maker could really use… Continue reading Tesla Sold Its Bitcoin at Pretty Much the Worst Moment Imaginable
Tesla Rolling Out Robotaxis With Human Drivers in the Driver’s Seat, Defeating the Purpose of a Robotaxi
Tesla is planning to follow up on its extremely limited and technical-issues-plagued robotaxi service in Austin, Texas — with an even more limited rollout in San Francisco. According to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider, Elon Musk’s EV maker is looking to accelerate its timeline by rolling out a robotaxi service across a large… Continue reading Tesla Rolling Out Robotaxis With Human Drivers in the Driver’s Seat, Defeating the Purpose of a Robotaxi