“I have a flight to catch, why is this thing going in a circle?” Do or Donut A man had the misfortune of becoming trapped inside a driverless Waymo taxi as it drove around a Scottsdale, Arizona parking lot in circles — instead of getting him to the airport for his imminent flight. Tech entrepreneur… Continue reading Man Trying to Catch Flight Alarmed as His Driverless Waymo Gets Stuck Driving in Loop Around Parking Lot
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Sam Altman Explodes at Board Members Who Fired Him
In a freewheeling interview with Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unloaded on the company’s board members who abruptly sacked him in November 2023 — new perspective on the coup that fleshes out both the history of the company and Altman’s chaotic character as a leading figure in the explosive AI industry. At the time, the… Continue reading Sam Altman Explodes at Board Members Who Fired Him
Meta Panics, Kills AI-Generated “People” It Created Like “’Proud Black Queer Momma” After Near-Universal Backlash
Instagram created a fake, AI-generated Black woman — and the response was outraged. Kill ‘Em All Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated “characters” after getting slammed for how cringe and problematic they were. As 404 Media reports, Meta has now killed off most of its remaining AI user accounts — most of which were… Continue reading Meta Panics, Kills AI-Generated “People” It Created Like “’Proud Black Queer Momma” After Near-Universal Backlash
The Cybertruck Bomber Seems to Have Made Strange Claims About the Mysterious Drone Sightings
Last week, an active-duty US Army soldier died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound right before blowing up the Tesla Cybertruck he had rented in front of the Trump Towers hotel in Las Vegas using a crudely-built explosive and fireworks. The 37-year-old Green Beret soldier named Matthew Livelsberger left behind a deranged manifesto, calling the incident… Continue reading The Cybertruck Bomber Seems to Have Made Strange Claims About the Mysterious Drone Sightings
Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars
Hold onto your butts. Bolt from the Blue The sophomore year of Kia’s three-row electric SUV has come to a pretty inauspicious conclusion. This week, the Korean automaker issued a recall for nearly 23,000 EV9 electric cars for the 2024-25 model year after discovering that some of them had seats that weren’t fully bolted down… Continue reading Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars
Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot
The machines are fighting. Friendly Fire A video shared on social media appears to depict the prelude to an inter-robot-species conflict. The belligerents? A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics delivery robot, according to TechCrunch. The footage, taken in Los Angeles from a dashcam, shows the Serve robot puttering along a crosswalk at night before… Continue reading Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot
After Cybertruck Terror Attack, Elon Musk Screeches That Cybertrucks Are Bad for Terror Attacks
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded just outside the Trump Towers hotel in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning, killing the person occupying the vehicle and injuring seven others. You’d be forgiven for initially suspecting the vehicle had burst into flames on its own, since others have previously. But investigators are now suggesting that the incident may have… Continue reading After Cybertruck Terror Attack, Elon Musk Screeches That Cybertrucks Are Bad for Terror Attacks
Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself
Insane Clown Posse’s Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he’s a fan. Hosted on the Google-backed Character.AI service — which, as a sidebar, Futurism has investigated extensively, repeatedly finding horrible things — the ICP cofounder’s digital doppelganger sounds like a slightly robotic version… Continue reading Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself
People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”
Folks on social media are in an uproar after Meta announced that it’s planning to load Facebook up with AI “users,” better known as bots. First reported by the Financial Times, this plan to populate the dying social network with these so-called “characters” is geared towards driving engagement — even though other platforms, including Meta’s Instagram,… Continue reading People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”
Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle
“Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police.” Probe the Probe The family of Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower who was found dead just a month after his New York Times exposé was published, is claiming that the young man was murdered. An account that appears to belong to Balaji’s mother Poornima… Continue reading Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle