A shortsighted design decision that Elon Musk made more than a decade ago is once again coming back to haunt Tesla. As The Guardian reports, the company’s Robotaxi rollout has been a massive bust — due, in at least in part, to Musk’s long-ago bet against the light detection and ranging sensors known as lidar, which… Continue reading Tesla’s Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago
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First Tesla Drives Autonomously From Dealer to Buyer’s House, Ends in Embarrassing Flub
On Saturday, Tesla announced that it had made the world’s first fully driverless delivery of a car, achieving a key promise Elon Musk had made ahead of the rocky launch of his robotaxi service. In a promotional video shared by the automaker, a Model Y rolls out of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. With no… Continue reading First Tesla Drives Autonomously From Dealer to Buyer’s House, Ends in Embarrassing Flub
“Truly Psychopathic”: Concern Grows Over “Therapist” Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness
As of April, according to an analysis by the Harvard Business Review, the number one use of AI chatbots is now therapy. The more we learn about what that looks like in practice, the less it sounds like a good idea. That’s not entirely surprising: even AI experts remain hazy on exactly how the tech actually… Continue reading “Truly Psychopathic”: Concern Grows Over “Therapist” Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness
Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos
Meta is demanding access to all of your photos, even the ones you haven’t uploaded anywhere yet — and it’s being incredibly shifty about what it intends to do with them. As The Verge reports, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company refuses to rule out the possibility that it will use your phone’s camera roll to train… Continue reading Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos
An “Indie Rock Band” That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify
While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated “band” has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. As Music Ally reports, the act in question, The Velvet Sundown, recently appeared out of the blue on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and even YouTube — despite having no digital footprint prior… Continue reading An “Indie Rock Band” That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify
Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI
Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry’s rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn’t just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that’s ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — … Continue reading Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI
Melania Trump’s Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself
Let’s get one thing straight: it’s hard to be married to the president. From coming up with epoch-defining slogans like “Be Best” to decking the White House halls with bizarre Christmas decor, it’s a tougher gig than most of us can imagine. Our current first lady, Melania Trump, is well aware of the challenge after… Continue reading Melania Trump’s Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself
Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable
A well-intentioned writer decided to get a group of humans and their AI companions together for a cabin retreat. Somehow, it went worse than anyone could have imagined. As Johns Hopkins science writer Sam Apple described in a new essay for Wired, the apps that each human participant used to communicate with their AI companions… Continue reading Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable
Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly
Image by Getty / Futurim Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses luminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the brain metabolizes energy, it… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly
Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down
The industry’s leading AI models will resort to blackmail at an astonishing rate when threatened with being shut down, according to an alarming new report from researchers at the AI startup Anthropic. The work, published last week, illustrates the industry’s struggles to align their AI models with our human expectations of good behavior, especially as tech… Continue reading Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down