A teen tech entrepreneur is working to retrofit robots with simulated artificial bodily functions like a virtual heart rate, body temperature, and sweating response — a bong-rip idea to make them better emulate human emotional states like joy or anxiety. In an interview with TechCrunch, the 19-year-old founder of “emotionally intelligent robots” company Intempus, Teddy Warner,… Continue reading New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions Like Fear and Anxiety
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Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says
Sexual relationships with AI chatbots have become all too common — but for some real-life partners, it still feels like cheating when it’s happening behind their back. That’s the takeaway from a recent HuffPost column in which Marisa Cohen, a licensed marriage and family therapist, affirmed that having intimate encounters with anyone — or anything… Continue reading Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says
Suddenly Freed From Prison, Silk Road Founder Stunned by Advancements in World Since 2013
The 12-year campaign to free Ross Ulbricht — the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road, the original crypto-enabled dark web mail-order-drug emporium — finally ended in January, when newly-minted second term president Donald Trump officially pardoned the bitcoin criminal. Now, Ulbricht is picking up where he left off, getting his first taste of a world… Continue reading Suddenly Freed From Prison, Silk Road Founder Stunned by Advancements in World Since 2013
Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track
Are we on the cusp of truly affordable Teslas? A YouTuber flew a drone over Tesla’s Fremont test track and saw what may be its new cheap model racing around it. As spotted by Teslarati, new flyover footage from an account that calls itself “Met God in Wildnerness” — which along with frequent Fremont flyovers… Continue reading Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track
Secret OpenAI Memo Describes Plans to Make Users Rely on “Entity”
An internal OpenAI document somehow ended up in the discovery process for an antitrust trial against Google — and the revelations about the company’s plans for ChatGPT are illuminating and, depending on your point of view, disquieting. As The Verge reports, the Justice Department’s ongoing attempts to break up Google’s alleged monopoly garnered an OpenAI memo… Continue reading Secret OpenAI Memo Describes Plans to Make Users Rely on “Entity”
Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark
The shoehorning of AI into everything has programmers at Amazon feeling less like the tedious parts of their jobs are being smoothly automated, and more like their work is beginning to resemble the drudgery of toiling away in one of the e-commerce giant’s vast warehouses. That’s the bleak picture painted in new reporting from the… Continue reading Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark
Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star
A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary system in which a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star — which it accomplished after stripping its host’s innards and dispersing them into space. The findings, detailed in a new study published in the journal… Continue reading Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star
Scientists Want You to Ink an Electronic Tattoo On Your Forehead So Your Boss Can Detect Your Mental State
Image by Device / Huh et al. / Futurism Burned out but too anxious to admit it to your boss? Or are you just bad at knowing when to take a break? In either case, a new device could be just what you need — if you’re willing to rock some temporary face tats, and sacrifice… Continue reading Scientists Want You to Ink an Electronic Tattoo On Your Forehead So Your Boss Can Detect Your Mental State
Another Bodybuilder Just Died a Horrible Death
Image by @tkachyk_1990 via Instagram / Futurism After quitting the bizarre injections that puffed up his muscles, a Russian bodybuilder has become the latest in a long and unfortunate line of pro weightlifters to meet untimely demises. As The Sun reports, 35-year-old Nikita Tkachuk hadn’t injected synthol — a so-called “site enhancement oil” primarily made up… Continue reading Another Bodybuilder Just Died a Horrible Death
Tesla Can’t Find Legal Places to Store All Its Unsold Cybertrucks
Tesla’s in hot water. Suburban Wasteland Tesla is seriously struggling to find enough room for all of its unsold Cybertrucks. In a particularly dramatic example, the increasingly unpopular pickups have been piling up in the parking lot of a shuttered Bed Bath & Beyond store in a Detroit suburb shopping center, Automotive News reports, in… Continue reading Tesla Can’t Find Legal Places to Store All Its Unsold Cybertrucks