The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors’ generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it’s already kneecapping the development of future AI models. As the AI-generated data clouds the human creations that these models are so heavily dependent on amalgamating, it becomes… Continue reading ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It’s Hobbling Future AI Development
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Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity
A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the “posthuman transition” — a mind-bending exercise in imagining a future in which humanity willfully hands over power, or perhaps bequeaths existence entirely, to some sort of superhuman intelligence. As Wired reports, the lavish party was organized by generative AI entrepreneur Daniel… Continue reading Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity
Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society
Google has released a baffling new AI feature that turns your web search into a podcast. Why anybody would want to enable the feature is unclear. Why be plagued by misleading and hallucinated AI Overviews search results when you can have a robotic voice read them out loud instead? Have we really lost the ability… Continue reading Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society
James Webb Peers Into Mysterious Haze Covering Pluto
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and discovered that it’s controlling the dwarf planet’s climate and atmosphere. The findings, reported in a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, also hint that other worlds, including our own, may have a… Continue reading James Webb Peers Into Mysterious Haze Covering Pluto
A Billionaire Just Died in the Most Bizarre Way You Can Possibly Imagine
Image by Getty / Futurism An auto parts billionaire died last week after reportedly swallowing a bee and being stung by it internally. As The Telegraph reports, Indian industrialist Sunjay Kapur was playing polo during the Queen’s Cup tournament in Windsor, England when, according to eyewitnesses on the scene, he man shouted “I swallowed something” before… Continue reading A Billionaire Just Died in the Most Bizarre Way You Can Possibly Imagine
Elon Musk Posts “No Kings” Message as Protests Rage Against Trump
Late Sunday night, billionaire Elon Musk was seemingly kept awake by the specter of the “No Kings” mass protests across the United States over the weekend. Millions of people took to the streets to counter a controversial — and apparently boring-as-hell — military parade, sponsored by UFC and put on by president Donald Trump, with… Continue reading Elon Musk Posts “No Kings” Message as Protests Rage Against Trump
Sam Altman Says “Significant Fraction” of Earth’s Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI
During a recent public appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that he wants a large chunk of the world’s power grid to help him run artificial intelligence models. As Laptop Mag flagged, he dropped that bomb dropped during AMD’s AI conference last week after Lisa Su, the CEO of the hosting firm who counts Altman as… Continue reading Sam Altman Says “Significant Fraction” of Earth’s Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI
Stanford Doctors Invent Device That Appears to Be Able to Save Tons of Stroke Patients Before They Die
Image by Andrew Brodhead Researchers have developed a novel device that literally spins away the clots that block blood flow to the brain and cause strokes. As Stanford explains in a blurb, the novel milli-spinner device may be able to save the lives of patients who experience “ischemic stroke” from brain stem clotting. Traditional clot… Continue reading Stanford Doctors Invent Device That Appears to Be Able to Save Tons of Stroke Patients Before They Die
Sailor Snaps Photo of Black Iceberg With Dark Veins
“He is almost… in a diamond shape.” Black Ice There’s a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure is making waves online. As fisherman Hallur Antoniussen explained in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the bizarre berg he photographed when on an… Continue reading Sailor Snaps Photo of Black Iceberg With Dark Veins
Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica
Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctic ice, and the researchers who found them don’t know why. Using a cosmic particle detector, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania detected peculiar signals that, according to a press release, “defy the current understanding of particle physics.” The particle detector that found those strange signals —… Continue reading Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica