“There are so many things wrong with this app that I don’t even know where to begin.” Cake Walk A new healthcare app claims that its AI can detect sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with a 94.4 percent accuracy rate — but it apparently couldn’t distinguish between penis-shaped novelty objects and, you know, actual genitals. In… Continue reading AI App That Claims to Detect STIs in Photos Offers Confident Diagnosis of Penis-Shaped Cake
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Here’s How to Live Stream the Eclipse Right From Your Computer
The next eclipse like this one is in 21 years. Finger-Painted Smile Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that large swathes of North America are about to experience a total solar eclipse. To many, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the Moon fully block out the rays of the Sun,… Continue reading Here’s How to Live Stream the Eclipse Right From Your Computer
OpenAI Secretly Trained GPT-4 With More Than a Million Hours of Transcribed YouTube Videos
Last month, the Wall Street Journal‘s Joanna Stern sat down with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to discuss the company’s latest text-to-video generator called Sora. During the brief conversation, Stern asked Murati if Sora was trained on videos from YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook — resulting in a long and awkward pause. “We used publicly available data… Continue reading OpenAI Secretly Trained GPT-4 With More Than a Million Hours of Transcribed YouTube Videos
Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Crashes as Soon as Market Opens
“The victims here are willingly opening their bank accounts, and when it crashes to earth they’ll thank Trump for the privilege of being shaken down.” Celebrity Apprentice Former president Donald Trump’s meme stock is in deep, deep trouble. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) are getting absolutely hammered this morning, sliding a further… Continue reading Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Crashes as Soon as Market Opens
Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI
Oops! Big Shot, Big Foot Google is reportedly considering charging users a subscription to access its experimental AI-integrated search feature — a proposed measure that would mark the first time the search giant has ever charged users for access to a core feature. That Google’s even weighing such a shift — first reported by The… Continue reading Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI
Decaf Coffee Contains a Horrifying Poison, Experts Say
Image by Getty / Futurism For fans of decaffeinated coffee, we have some bad news. The not-so-buzzy version of coffee can harbor a chemical that can cause cancer, CNN reports, which has health and environmental activists pushing to have the substance banned for its use in making decaf coffee. Methylene chloride is the substance in… Continue reading Decaf Coffee Contains a Horrifying Poison, Experts Say
The Cybertruck Seems to Be Breaking Down at an Incredible Rate
“Tesla really rushed these trucks out, what a nightmare.” Breaking Bad After years and years of waiting, the first class of Tesla Cybertruck owners are finding that the futuristic-looking electric vehicles aren’t holding up too well. Case in point, the Cybertruck Owners’ Club forum, where as a viral tweet flagged by Jalopnik reveals, those new truck… Continue reading The Cybertruck Seems to Be Breaking Down at an Incredible Rate
Elon Musk Is Poaching Tesla Engineers for xAI. Wait, What?
“The craziest talent war I’ve ever seen!” Poached Egg Elon Musk is big mad that OpenAI keeps trying to poach Tesla engineers — so instead, he’s stealing them for another of his ventures. Responding to reporting from The Information about Tesla machine learning researcher Ethan Knight going over to xAI, Musk’s latest artificial intelligence gambit, the… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Poaching Tesla Engineers for xAI. Wait, What?
Earthquake Strikes While Man Is Midway Through Vasectomy
“I figured [the surgeon] was messing with me, but he had to stop because everything was shaking.” Ball Drop When a small earthquake rattled the New York City area and surrounding states on Friday morning, Pennsylvania resident Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy. As The Guardian reports, the geological rumbling… Continue reading Earthquake Strikes While Man Is Midway Through Vasectomy
One Trillion Bugs With Bulging Eyes Set to Invade a Third of the United States, Experts Say
“That cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times.” Bugging Out For the first time in centuries, two separate regional “broods” of cicadas are set to arise and invade parts of the United States, with experts saying that up to a trillion — yes, that’s “trillion” with a “t” — of the… Continue reading One Trillion Bugs With Bulging Eyes Set to Invade a Third of the United States, Experts Say