If you watched the English-dubbed version of one of several popular anime on Amazon Prime Video lately, like “Banana Fish,” and “No Game, No Life,” you may have noticed something strange. The voices were generic, unexpressive, and at times robotic, completely disconnected from the action unfolding on screen. Some lines even sounded a little glitchy.… Continue reading Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous AI Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry
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Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Giving a young kid a smartphone may be a big mistake. New research conducted by scientists from UC Berkeley and Columbia University found that children 12 years old and younger who received one of these devices were at a higher risk of depression, obesity, and sleep… Continue reading Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early
New App Lets Users Bet on Deadly Conflicts in Real Time
@pizzintwatch via X (Screenshot) Thanks to the rise of cryptocurrency, it’s never been easier to place inscrutable bets with shady grey-market bookies. The kingpin presiding over this dubious corner of the gaming industry is currently Polymarket, a crypto platform which lets users place bets on the outcomes of weather catastrophes, political elections, and economic crises.… Continue reading New App Lets Users Bet on Deadly Conflicts in Real Time
Sam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images During the months following OpenAI’s announcement of its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT just over three years ago, Google CEO Sundar Pichai pulled the fire alarm. The search giant’s management issued a “code red” over what Pichai saw as an imminent disruption to its core business — a warranted level of caution, in… Continue reading Sam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified
Man Realizes He Can Feed Facebook AI Slop Page Poison Pills That Drives Its Followers Berserk
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI bros love cribbing what humans make so they can churn out loads of meaningless slop. But one of those humans wasn’t going to take getting ripped off without fighting back. Scott Collette, a Hollywood screenwriter who runs the popular “Forgotten Los Angeles” account on Instagram,… Continue reading Man Realizes He Can Feed Facebook AI Slop Page Poison Pills That Drives Its Followers Berserk
This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild
Thomas Schenk It’s been over two weeks since the Sun has set on Germany’s Neumayer III base in the Antarctic, due to the Earth’s axial tilt at the extreme locale. In that eerie landscape, the 16-year-old base has to contend with otherworldly hazards, like ice shelf disintegration and shifting ice that’s moved it over a… Continue reading This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild
Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Hickey / Getty Images Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok is known for many things: racism, antisemitism, and pedophilia, to name a few. Adding to that list appears to be, uh, doxxing — yes, seriously, after the AI system appeared to reveal the exact home address of internet personality… Continue reading Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address
Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Leave it to Elon Musk’s Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator. In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling… Continue reading Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk
China Is Officially Scared of Robots
Chinese officials are warning that the country’s humanoid robotics industry could be forming a massive bubble. As Bloomberg reports, strategists from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which serves as the country’s state-run macroeconomic management agency, say that extreme levels of investment could be drowning out other markets and research initiatives. It’s a notable… Continue reading China Is Officially Scared of Robots
The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern”
Getty / Futurism The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is just weeks away from reaching its closest point to Earth: it’s expected to pass within just 170 million miles of our home planet on December 19, giving astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look as it whizzes past. As Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb points… Continue reading The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern”