“Take a shot when someone says AI.” AI-AI-I/O Google employees reportedly came up with a drinking game during the company’s I/O developer conference last week, mocking just how many times its executives mentioned artificial intelligence. As seen in a TikTok mega cut put together by The Verge, Googlers must’ve gotten absolutely hammered that day, with… Continue reading Google Employees Mock Execs for Saying “AI” Over and Over
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Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate
What could possibly go wrong? Self-Regulating He might not helm Google anymore, but Eric Schmidt is absolutely still thinking like a tech CEO. In an interview with NBC‘s “Meet the Press,” Schmidt laid bare his techno-libertarian outlook when asked about whether artificial intelligence needs “guardrails” given its propensity to lie, confabulate, and, well, go kind of… Continue reading Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate
Elon Musk Obediently Censors Twitter When Dictator Tells Him To
When the Turkish government asked Twitter to censor the opposition during the country’s election this week, the site’s owner Elon Musk obediently complied. Twitter announced it had “taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey” in response to demands starting late last week, without specifying what content would be blocked or why. Put… Continue reading Elon Musk Obediently Censors Twitter When Dictator Tells Him To
The Population of Europe Now Appears to Be Falling
You can probably guess why. Pop Cap The population of the European Union (EU) has slid down by more than half a million people since 2020, according to the number crunchers at its statistical arm Eurostat — a striking inflection point after decades of growth. The causes of the decline are various, but the basic issue… Continue reading The Population of Europe Now Appears to Be Falling
Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think
In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race — but the competition that the exec fears most, according to an NBC report, might be a little unexpected. “We’ve done a lot of looking over our shoulders at OpenAI,” reads the memo, which a Google spokesperson… Continue reading Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think
Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who’s currently hard at work automating human labor at an incredible scale, is very confused as to why anyone might suggest that AI might replace human workers. Fresh on the heels of Google’s Wall Street-winning and heavily AI-focused I/O conference, Pichai made an appearance on The Verge‘s Decoder podcast. And editor-in-chief Nilay Patel… Continue reading Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs
Fallout Between Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa May Involve Kidney Transplant
Image by Getty / Futurism If you haven’t heard: there’s drama. Kidney transplant drama. After months of speculation regarding why actresses Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa appeared to have had a falling out, we appear to finally have an answer — and it’s a rare intersection between the worlds of celebrity news and the deep… Continue reading Fallout Between Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa May Involve Kidney Transplant
BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees
Game over, humans! AI Supremacy The struggling media company BuzzFeed told investors this week that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-facilitated quizzes than traditional ones, Bloomberg reports. While we have yet to see a more detailed breakdown of the numbers — the company would obviously be incentivized to present the stats in… Continue reading BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees
Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes
Image by Getty/Futurism Monitoring the brain get downright medieval. In the most invasive type of procedure, surgeons saw into the skull, remove a sizeable chunk of bone, and place a grid of electrodes directly on the brain, where it can carry out tasks ranging from data collection to neurostimulation. We now have a glimpse of how that messy… Continue reading Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes
It Looks Like Starship Chunks Are Washing Up on Beaches
Not gonna lie, we’re kinda jealous. Tile Me Up About seven miles away from SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, pieces of what appear to be heat shield tiles from the company’s latest failed Starship launch appear to have been found washed up on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. A Twitter… Continue reading It Looks Like Starship Chunks Are Washing Up on Beaches