Elon Musk’s new anti-woke artificial intelligence chatbot is popping off — and it has some weird stuff to say about its creator, in yet another cautionary tale about generative AI systems cooking up ridiculous non-factual claims. While there’s been plenty of coverage of the details surrounding Grok, the chatbot hosted on the site formerly known… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Grok AI Accuses Him of Going to Court for Pedophilia
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Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot
They both died on the scene. Grand Deathed Auto A man in Los Angeles has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 in restitution after killing two people with his Tesla back in 2019 while using Autopilot. As Fortune reports, it’s possibly the first time US prosecutors have brought felony charges against a motorist who… Continue reading Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot
In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels
Elon, why?! Snake Oil While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a startling claim: that oil and gas get a bad rap. The CEO, who has made it his mission to wean the planet off coal and gas by selling electric cars and solar infrastructure, said… Continue reading In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels
DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift… Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret
Image by Getty / Futurism The holiday season means presents galore — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened. As experts told USA Today, the prevalence of self-serve DNA testing has made it much more likely that people discover painful family secrets — for instance, that one… Continue reading DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift… Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret
Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees
“If no one had ever said, ‘Plant a trillion trees,’ I think we’d have been in a lot better space.” No Treegrets In 2019, ecologist Thomas Crowther sparked a global tree-planting craze to offset carbon emissions. But now the former chief scientific adviser for the United Nation’s Trillion Trees Campaign has had a change of heart, Wired… Continue reading Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees
DeepMind Says Its AI Solved a Math Problem That Humans Were Stumped By
“To be very honest with you, we have hypotheses, but we don’t know exactly why this works.” Fun Times DeepMind claims that for the first time, an AI has solved a famously difficult math problem with a solution that eluded human mathematicians — which could be huge if it holds up to scrutiny. In interviews… Continue reading DeepMind Says Its AI Solved a Math Problem That Humans Were Stumped By
Jeff Bezos Discusses Plans for a Trillion People to Live in Huge Cylindrical Space Stations
“The planetary surfaces are just way too small.” Habitat Prime If it were up to Amazon founder and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos, we’ll all be living inside massive cylindrical space stations one day, floating through the distant corners of our solar system while longingly staring back at the Pale Blue Dot we once called… Continue reading Jeff Bezos Discusses Plans for a Trillion People to Live in Huge Cylindrical Space Stations
Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say
This latest detection is a real head scratcher. Blipped Out Ever since the first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007, scientists have been racing to understand the unusual flashes of radio waves emanating from extremely distant locations. Some of these signals blip at astonishingly regular intervals, while some blast out extremely powerful flashes all… Continue reading Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say
A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth
Kxxzzthhhhh… Flare Gun The Sun is entering the most active part of its 11-year cycle, unleashing powerful solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and streams of energetic particles in every direction — including toward our own humble Earth. Just earlier this month, a massive hole opened up in the Sun’s atmosphere, allowing copious amounts of solar… Continue reading A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth
Something Dreadful Thawing Out of the Permafrost, Scientists Warn
“The drillers heard a bubbling sound coming from the well, so we decided to have a look…” Gas Leak Fossil fuel companies drilling into the Norwegian permafrost may be unleashing a hidden monster. After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, an archipelago located between Norway and the North Pole, researchers discovered that half of… Continue reading Something Dreadful Thawing Out of the Permafrost, Scientists Warn