Getty Images New research suggests that AI chatbots like ChatGPT can persuade roughly one out of every 25 people to change who they’re going to vote for — with one major caveat. First reported by The Washington Post, the revelation comes as a result of joint international studies led by researchers at MIT. To analyze… Continue reading AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat
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Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies
Sean Zanni / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images How’s this for a sign of the times: fresh out of a legendary run in the NFT space, the digital artist Mike Winkelmann — better known by the cutesy mononym Beeple — has a new art installation featuring robot dogs with human heads. And these aren’t just… Continue reading Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies
Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images After taking off from Cancun, Mexico, on October 30, a packed JetBlue airliner seemed well on its way for just another uneventful flight. It had reached its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, at which point the plane practically flies itself, and passengers begin to unwind, unbuckle… Continue reading Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says
AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public
Getty / Futurism With great power comes great dupe-ability. Last month, we reported on a new study conducted by researchers at Icaro Lab in Italy that discovered a stupefyingly simple way of breaking the guardrails of even cutting-edge AI chatbots: “adversarial poetry.” In a nutshell, the team, comprising researchers from the safety group DexAI and… Continue reading AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public
The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For decades, the country music industry has billed itself as the rough-hewn, rural cousin to the effete sounds of the city. That appears to be going out the window, as more and more country producers embrace San Francisco’s AI over Nashville’s homespun troubadours. In a detailed… Continue reading The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
Alex Martin / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Want a used car that works? You’d be wise to not get an older Tesla. In Consumer Reports’ latest ranking for used cars, the Elon Musk-run automaker came dead last in terms of reliability, trailing by over forty points from the top spot on a scale… Continue reading Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically
Katie Helen via Facebook Christmas magic fell a little flat this week when a holiday drone show in the English town of Haywards Heath flopped, with the company behind the production suffering “technical difficulties.” According to the BBC, the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Drone Show, put on by Lumina Sky Theatre, was advertised as a… Continue reading Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically
Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content
Getty / Futurism The brains of neurotypical children under the age of five years old experience a turbo-charged growth spurt that takes them from drooling infants to potty-trained kids ready to learn their ABCs in school. That’s why it’s so worrisome that we’re inadvertently subjecting a large group of these children to an epic amount… Continue reading Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content
AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation
Getty / Futurism Law enforcement has embraced artificial intelligence tech to make the lives of officers a little easier. Yet the same tech is already turning into a considerable headache both for its own operations and members of the communities where they work. From kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men… Continue reading AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation
Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images You kind of have to sympathize with some of these so-called AI agents. They’re apologetic screw-ups that can’t get anything right, while their cruel human masters insist on making them carry out important work anyway. Inevitably this goes wrong, and the AI model must beg for… Continue reading Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”