Futurism / Microsoft If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11 with useless AI features, you’re really going to hate this video. In a 30 second clip uploaded over the weekend, programmer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how even using Window 11’s purportedly AI-powered search bar to… Continue reading “Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI
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CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS
Getty / Futurism Ever since it was first spotted hurtling through the solar system, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has maintained that there’s a chance mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a technological object sent by an extraterrestrial civilization. He’s meticulously catalogued what he claims are anomalous qualities of the object, which most of his peers believe… Continue reading CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS
New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: XNY/Star Max/GC Images via Getty Images “Men do not make laws,” goes a maxim attributed to US president Calvin Coolidge. “They do but discover them.” If that’s true, then the US attack on Venezuela just uncovered a legislative mother lode. A new law proposed by New York representative… Continue reading New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket
Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Grok, the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-founded AI venture xAI and infused into X-formerly-Twitter — a platform also owned by Elon Musk — continues to be used by trollish misogynists, pedophiles, and other freaks of the digital gutters to non-consensually undress images of… Continue reading Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?
Tesla Loses Trademark to “Cybercab” Due to Its Own Staggering Incompetence
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tesla In a blunder that sums up Tesla’s struggling efforts in the self-driving space, Electrek reports that the Elon Musk-owned automaker has badly screwed up trying to get a trademark for its upcoming “Cybercab.” The Cybercab, for the uninformed, is Tesla’s purpose-built vehicle for giving driverless rides. Right… Continue reading Tesla Loses Trademark to “Cybercab” Due to Its Own Staggering Incompetence
If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down
Unitree via X If machines ever fight a war against humans, it’ll probably be fought with modern weapons of war — bullets, bombs, and perhaps plasma weapons a la “The Terminator” — in a conflict, the robots will presumably dominate against us sacks of flesh and blood. Heck, the AI could even just bioengineer a… Continue reading If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down
Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space
Lingxiao Yuan While peering into some of the oldest regions of the known universe — dating back to just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang — an international team of astronomers made a puzzling discovery. As detailed in a paper published the journal Nature, they discovered an extremely hot galaxy cluster that’s far hotter… Continue reading Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space
Court System Says Hallucinating AI System Is Ready to Be Deployed After Dramatically Lowering Expectations
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI’s use in the legal sphere is the gift that keeps on giving. This time, it’s the sobering sense of disappointment that set in after a team building an AI chatbot for Alaska’s court system actually tested it and found out it was a hallucinating disaster,… Continue reading Court System Says Hallucinating AI System Is Ready to Be Deployed After Dramatically Lowering Expectations
ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images With the mass adoption of AI chatbots comes immense potential for their abuse. These tools which cheer us on endlessly, no matter what we ask it, have already pushed vulnerable people to wild delusions, murder, and suicides. Adding to the list is Sam Nelson, a 19-year-old… Continue reading ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died
Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots
media.ccc.de via YouTube Most mainstream dating sites promise to connect like-minded people of any race, gender, or sexual identity. A far more niche corner of the online dating world, it turns out, promises to match white supremacists by creating safe havens that are inherently based on hate and discrimination. But cybersecurity doesn’t appear to be… Continue reading Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots