luckythurman via TikTok Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service is going through a lot of firsts these days. Earlier this week, a pregnant woman in San Francisco gave birth inside one of the company’s self-driving vehicles while taking it to the hospital in lieu of an ambulance. Now, a different woman has experienced a very different kind… Continue reading Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk
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Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone
Getty / Futurism We’ve written previously about Juliana Peralta, who was only 13 years old when her parents say an AI chatbot she was secretly engaging with drove her to suicide. Now her parents have shared a grim new detail with CBS News: the bot platform responsible, Character.AI, still sends notifications to Peralta’s phone, “trying… Continue reading Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone
Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with the likes of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arguing that we should skip the Moon entirely in favor of the Red Planet — despite NASA already being deeply invested in returning astronauts to the lunar surface for the… Continue reading Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all kinds of tech-enabled brainrot. Now, in a further assault to their sanity, AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and… Continue reading Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
Getty / Futurism The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded by hosts and distributed digitally to entertain or bring listeners up to date on the news. But with the advent of AI, tech companies are keen to stomp the essence out of what makes… Continue reading Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI is no longer just identifying suspected criminals from behind a camera; now it’s rendering photorealistic images of their mugs for cops to blast out on social media. Enter ChatGPT, the latest member of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix. New reporting… Continue reading Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects
King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify: “We Are Truly Doomed”
Mariano Regidor/Redferns Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made headlines earlier this year when it quit Spotify, protesting the platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, who heavily invested in an AI weapons company. The band was one of several music acts to pull their music from Spotify over ethical concerns. Many of… Continue reading King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify: “We Are Truly Doomed”
Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Ask just about any job seeker in the US how the labor market is doing, and you’re liable to get an earful. Months upon months of stale job growth have led to a “low-hire economy,” a situation where workers have little leverage over… Continue reading Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper
Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
The Tonight Show OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted he needs extensive assistance from his company’s AI chatbot to get through life. During an interview last night with late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon, Altman argued that raising a child without constantly pestering a chatbot for life advice is now impossible — even though humans… Continue reading Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Getting tired of dusting off Grandpa’s stuffy old urn? One startup has the solution for you. It’s called Parting Stone, a company based in San Francisco which offers to turn your loved ones’ ashes into a pile of smooth, white rocks. Justin Crowe, the entrepreneur behind… Continue reading You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into