Earlier this week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper, criticizing the AI industry for vastly overstating the ability of its top AI models to reason or “think.” The team found that the models including OpenAI’s o3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7, and Google’s Gemini were stumped by even the simplest of puzzles. For instance, the “large… Continue reading Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children’s Game
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Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Date Was Supposed to Be Today, But We’re Shocked to Hear That It’s Been Pushed Back
The launch of Tesla’s robotaxi network will have to wait. On Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk made a tweet stating that, “tentatively,” the first public rides on its autonomous vehicles — which will not be in its purpose-built Cybercabs, but in regular Teslas with updated software — will start on June 22. But the date could… Continue reading Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Date Was Supposed to Be Today, But We’re Shocked to Hear That It’s Been Pushed Back
Stanford Research Finds That “Therapist” Chatbots Are Encouraging Users’ Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts
Huge numbers of people are either already using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as therapists, or turning to commercial AI therapy platforms for help during dark moments. But is the tech ready for that immense responsibility? A new study by researchers at Stanford University found that the answer is, at least currently, a resounding “no.” Specifically, they found that… Continue reading Stanford Research Finds That “Therapist” Chatbots Are Encouraging Users’ Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts
Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into “Extreme” Right-Wing Symbols
“Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right ‘totems.’” The Implications Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk’s EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as “extreme-right” symbols. As news agency France 24 reports, the owners are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated… Continue reading Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into “Extreme” Right-Wing Symbols
Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop
In case you haven’t noticed, generative AI is creeping into our lives at an alarming rate. The perfidious tech and its algorithmically-generated slop is becoming a fact of life as unscrupulous tech companies set it loose into the world, consequences be damned. Unless you live in a hut, AI video slop is pretty much unavoidable.… Continue reading Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop
Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company’s Dismal AI Failure
Apple is facing some intense scrutiny after yet again flubbing its AI tech. During the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Tuesday, the company showed off its latest vision for “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of tools that use machine learning to scan images for objects or smush emojis together to form custom Franken-reacts — cutesy ideas… Continue reading Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company’s Dismal AI Failure
Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds
A Boeing Dreamliner 787 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood with 242 people aboard mere moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India, exploding in an immense fireball. The cause of the immensely tragic loss of life remains unknown. As CNBC reports, it could take months to find out. The top-selling wide-body aircraft was delivered… Continue reading Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds
CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession
The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though his own experiments with replacing human workers with AI were a bust. Speaking to The Times Tech podcast, the Sweden-based CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted that adoption of the technology will result in “implication[s] for white-collar jobs” that… Continue reading CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession
Government Website Caught Hosting “Gay Impregnation” Content
Portions of the US government’s official “Vaccine Hub” website, Vaccines.gov, seem to have been taken over by an AI sloperation that hosts “gay impregnation” content — and pages featuring lots of other NSFW topics, too. As flagged by 404 Media, this same spam marketing scheme seems to have also targeted websites for AI chipmaker Nvidia, National… Continue reading Government Website Caught Hosting “Gay Impregnation” Content
Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic
In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cool, analytical current of AI scholarship, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the boiling-hot torrent of commercial AI — excited, frenetic, gushing with utopian promises. As AI hype blasts off into the heavens, one notable tech critic asks an… Continue reading Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic