Weibo (Screenshots) There’s an intense space race back to the Moon underway — between the People’s Republic of China and the United States. Undergirding the PRC’s ambitions is a rocket known as the Long March 2, a workhorse of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Recently surfaced videos circulating on social media show the aftermath… Continue reading Chinese Rocket Falls to Earth, Explodes in Epic Fireball
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Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Amid the mangled wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible that horrifically imploded two years ago, investigators found a single SD card that miraculously survived intact — and still works. The discovery was flagged last week by science communicator Scott Manley, who has extensively covered the underwater… Continue reading Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage
Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When former OpenAI safety researcher Stephen Adler read the New York Times story about Allan Brooks, a Canadian father who had been slowly driven into delusions by obsessive conversations with ChatGPT, he was stunned. The article detailed Brooks’ ordeal as he followed the chatbot down a… Continue reading Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown
Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP; Michael M. Santiago; Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on the race to build… Continue reading Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence
Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes
OpenSea via Bluesky A major outage on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the tech giant’s cloud computing platform that supports vast swaths of the internet, threw the cryptocurrency community into chaos on Monday. The irony of communities that pride themselves on being decentralized being taken down by a centralized failure wasn’t lost on users on social… Continue reading Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes
AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists
Getty / Futurism Spotify is continuing to grapple with a tidal wave of AI slop that’s frustrating its users. While the company recently promised to address the issue of AI impersonators and content farms that “push ‘slop’ into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers,” the platform’s paying subscribers are… Continue reading AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists
OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”
OpenAI has announced a brand-new AI-powered web browser, dubbed ChatGPT Atlas, which is now available globally. Perhaps most memorably, Atlas features an “agent mode” — initially limited to paying Plus, Pro, and Business users — that acts as a natural extension of OpenAI’s forays into agentic AIs, meaning models intended to autonomously complete tasks. In… Continue reading OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”
Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money
Freepik (Screenshot) The scenes are grisly: stick-thin children huddling together in a muddy stream, white volunteers surrounded by throngs of starving Africans, and Arab children in refugee camps holding tin bowls. The only problem? None of them are real. In a macabre phenomenon sweeping the world’s leading non-government organizations, The Guardian reports, charity groups are… Continue reading Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money
OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: STR / NurPhoto via Getty Images Inveterate overpromiser Elon Musk is teasing that his chatbot Grok could soon “achieve artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — a hypothetical form of AI system that surpasses humans in virtually every way, and remains the white whale of the AI industry. “My… Continue reading OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face
ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds
Sean Gallup/Getty Images Earlier this month, data analyzed by Deutsche Bank showed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT revenue was starting to plateau in Europe, suggesting that enthusiasm for the AI chatbot app to beat may be waning. That’s despite the industry’s sky-high promises of delivering a technological revolution, as astronomical amounts of money continue to be poured… Continue reading ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds