Getty / Futurism OpenAI isn’t just burning through cash. It’s lighting an entire mountain of money on fire. But since it’s not a publicly traded company, the extent of that mountain remains difficult to gauge. But clues periodically emerge: as the Financial Times reports, for instance, the company recently signed a staggering $250 billion rental… Continue reading OpenAI’s Financial Situation Will Cause a Nauseating Sensation in the Pit of Your Stomach
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Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Waymo might be expanding its autonomous taxi services to northern cities like Minneapolis and Detroit, but back in Santa Monica, the company’s strained relationship with local residents has reached a breaking point. According to the Santa Monica Daily Press, the city council has issued a formal… Continue reading Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus
Researchers Hack DeepSeek to Speak Freely About Tiananmen Square
Futurism Getty / Futurism Earlier this year, a Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek sent Silicon Valley into a tailspin when it released a new AI model that rivaled the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while relying on only a fraction of the computing power. The lean open-source AI model, dubbed DeepSeek R1, was so impressive that… Continue reading Researchers Hack DeepSeek to Speak Freely About Tiananmen Square
Robot Walks for Three Days Straight, Hotswapping Its Battery Over and Over in New World Record
A three-day walk would be hard enough for humans, but for robots, it might as well be a trek around the world. An AgiBot A2 unit, developed by Chinese firm Zhiyuan Robotics, recently completed a 66-mile pilgrimage from Jinji Lake in Suzhou to Shanghai. The whole trek lasted three straight days, and set a new… Continue reading Robot Walks for Three Days Straight, Hotswapping Its Battery Over and Over in New World Record
The Economy Is Sputtering as People Keep Using Their Old Phones That Work Fine
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Do you really need to buy a new smartphone every year? Probably not. If you bought a decent one in the first place, chances are your smartphone is still doing a perfectly fine job. Ditto for getting that latest tablet, or upgrading your gaming rig with… Continue reading The Economy Is Sputtering as People Keep Using Their Old Phones That Work Fine
South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If AI is “critical” for “preparing students” to become well-rounded members of society, as US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon recently claimed, we all might be in trouble. A massive government experiment in South Korean to roll out 76 AI-generated textbooks has ended just four months… Continue reading South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with intelligence. We tend to be compelled by those with greater linguistic skills as… Continue reading Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says
Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
Getty / Futurism A magician in Missouri had a kooky idea: implant a computer chip into his hand and then do some fun magic tricks with it. Too bad he forgot the password. It sounds like a short story cooked up by Kurt Vonnegut, but it really happened to Zi Teng Wang, a magician and… Continue reading Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ezra Acayan / Getty Images With so much AI buzz coursing through the air these days, there are plenty of sensationalist claims about the tech’s affect on the job market. One prevailing narrative — and arguably the driving financial incentive behind AI — is that AI is set… Continue reading Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder
Journalist Caught Publishing Fake Articles Generated by AI
Getty / Futurism In the almost exactly three years since the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a tidal wave of AI slop has turned large swathes of the internet into an almost unrecognizable hellscape. Text carelessly generated by a large language models has invaded countless industries, from lawyers citing cases that were hallucinated by an AI… Continue reading Journalist Caught Publishing Fake Articles Generated by AI