If your data centers are guzzling more water than a major US city, you face a choice: come clean to the public and risk bad press — or hide the evidence to keep key figures in the green. For Amazon executives, evidently, the answer is to bury the data down far beneath the water table.… Continue reading Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret
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Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser
Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images It didn’t take long for cybersecurity researchers to notice some glaring issues with OpenAI’s recently unveiled AI browser Atlas. The browser, which puts OpenAI’s blockbuster ChatGPT front and center, features an “agent mode” — currently limited to paying subscribers — that allows it to complete entire tasks, such as… Continue reading Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser
Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed
Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-generated answer to Wikipedia, is about as deranged as you’d expect — and you don’t have to dig very deep to see why. We could, of course, start by examining how Grok, the chatbot responsible for writing the site built by xAI, tackles talking about… Continue reading Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia
Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia
Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Will your favorite sycophantic AI helper be servile forever? Maybe not. New research from the AI safety group Palisade Research suggests that some top AI models could be developing “survival drives,” after finding that they frequently refused instructions to shut themselves down. And more ominously, they… Continue reading Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”
OpenAI Data Finds Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users Might Be Suffering Mental Health Crises
Getty / Futurism As reports of its chatbot driving episodes of “AI psychosis” continue to mount, OpenAI has finally released its own estimates of how many ChatGPT users are showing signs of suffering these alarming mental health crises — and they’re staggering in scale. In an announcement first reported by Wired, the Sam Altman-led company… Continue reading OpenAI Data Finds Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users Might Be Suffering Mental Health Crises
Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI
Joe Maher/Getty Images For Fane Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is publicly calling on the government to break up ChatGPT maker OpenAI. When Axios asked him whether the Sam Altman-led company should be broken up, he responded with “I do.” “We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming,” he told… Continue reading Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI
EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly
Getty / Futurism The video game industry is hellbent on harnessing the power of generative AI to boost productivity and dream up virtual worlds — while also cutting costs, of course. According to a recent Google Cloud survey, 87 percent of video game developers said they are using AI to automate and streamline tasks, a… Continue reading EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly
Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet
Getty / Futurism It’s not just interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS that’s been catching the attention of scientists. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which was first discovered in 1812 and visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, has been found to be emanating intriguing radio signals. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, a… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet
Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit
Last month, the Department of Defense announced it was requesting proposals from the private industry for prototypes of space-based interceptors (SBIs), which are orbital weapon systems designed to intercept missiles. The request, largely seen as being part of the Trump administration’s proposed Golden Dome missile shield, has already drawn the attention of numerous contractors that… Continue reading Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit