Self-driving cars might be taking the world by storm, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s happy about it. Some residents unfortunate enough to live next to the Waymo depot in Santa Monica, California discovered a dreadful byproduct of Alphabet’s self-driving cars: their insanely irritating backup noise. “It’s one of the most annoying noises I could think of,” one… Continue reading Waymo’s Self-Driving Taxis Have a Hilarious Problem That’s Driving People Bananas
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New Imaging Technique Makes the Sun Look Like a Swirling Pink Liquid
A swirling sea of pink, where fluffy tufts float majestically upward, while elsewhere violet plumes rain down from above. This is the Sun as seen in groundbreaking new images — and they’re unlike anything you’ve ever laid eyes on. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists have leveraged new… Continue reading New Imaging Technique Makes the Sun Look Like a Swirling Pink Liquid
“Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment
It looks like the “learn to code” push is backfiring spectacularly for those who bought in. As Newsweek reports, recent college graduates who majored in computer science are facing high unemployment rates alongside the increasing probability of being laid off or replaced by artificial intelligence if and when they do get hired. In its latest… Continue reading “Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment
Something Surprising Is Destroying Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites
They’re dropping like flies. Angry Sun Now that more than 7,000 Starlink satellites are orbiting our planet, scientists have been given a golden opportunity to study the effects the Sun’s activity can have on the aggregate lifespans of such minimalist, constellation-based spacecraft. As New Scientist reports, it’s turning out that ferocious solar storms caused by… Continue reading Something Surprising Is Destroying Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites
College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement
College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City’s Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names during a commencement event this month. A video that has since gone viral on social media shows students having a QR on their smartphone scanned, only to have an AI read their name out… Continue reading College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement
The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse
It came to light this week that a new government report from the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission led by Robert F Kennedy Jr. contained botched citations for scientific papers that didn’t exist. This is almost certainly a sign that some form of generative AI was involved to draft a very consequential piece of medical… Continue reading The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse
Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It’s Still 2024
What Year Is It? Talk about cutting-edge tech. Google’s more-than-frequently-wrong AI Overviews search feature still thinks it’s 2024. The annoying AI box, which has remained error-riddled since its inception just over a year ago, has confidently been telling users that it’s still 2024, as Wired reports. Simply asking AI Overviews if it’s 2025 resulted in… Continue reading Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It’s Still 2024
Elon Musk Reportedly Says He’s Been Doing So Much Ketamine That It’s Causing Bladder Issues
Image by Getty / Futurism Elon Musk’s urinary prowess was once the stuff of legend. “Everything he does is fast,” former SpaceX engineer Brogan BamBrogan told Musk biographer Ashlee Vance for his 2015 biography of the entrepreneur. “He pees fast. It’s like a fire hose — three seconds and out. He’s authentically in a hurry.”… Continue reading Elon Musk Reportedly Says He’s Been Doing So Much Ketamine That It’s Causing Bladder Issues
Elon Musk Has Reportedly Been Traveling With a Box Full of Drugs
Image by Getty / Futurism As Elon Musk took to throwing government agencies into chaos, his well-documented drug use ramped up significantly. As the New York Times reports, Musk’s drug consumption “went well beyond occasional use” as he opted to travel with a daily medication box that held roughly 20 pills. One of the drugs… Continue reading Elon Musk Has Reportedly Been Traveling With a Box Full of Drugs
AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data
As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in artificial intelligence, there’s a massive and growing elephant in the room: that any models trained on web data from after the advent of ChatGPT in 2022 are ingesting AI-generated data — an act of low-key cannibalism that may well be causing increasing technical issues that could come… Continue reading AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data