“In fact, I didn’t want to come out.” Under a Rock Accounts of being trapped in caves tend to be tales of horror and despair — but for one Spanish woman, her experience sounds more akin to some long term R & R. As part of an ambitious scientific experiment, Beatriz Flamini, an experienced mountaineer… Continue reading Woman Confined to Cave for 500 Days Says She Had a Nice Time
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Meta’s Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission
Yikes. Thanks For Sharing Yann LeCun — Meta-formerly-Facebook’s outspoken chief AI scientist — kept things extremely normal this weekend when he took to Twitter to announce that humanity is but an endless struggle over evolution-ordained domination and submission. “Most people have no problem leading groups of people who are smarter than themselves,” tweeted LeCun, who’s… Continue reading Meta’s Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission
Media CEO Says Writers Should Be Using AI to Churn Out “30-50 Times” More Content
“We must grow and we must adapt — even Darwin style, as a business is the ultimate survival of the fittest.” Boss Baby New World’s Worst CEO just dropped. Meet James Clarke, the chief exec behind the tech-meets-media publisher Clearlink who, in a viral leaked video, told his content-writing staff that they should be using… Continue reading Media CEO Says Writers Should Be Using AI to Churn Out “30-50 Times” More Content
$75,000 FDNY Robodog Goes to Work, Falls Over Almost Immediately
“That didn’t work out for the dog so well.” Timber A parking garage in Manhattan collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, killing one person and injuring five more. Among the New York Fire Department’s first responders was a Dalmatian-spotted robodog, which unfortunately had a hell of a time while surveying the area. In a video posted on… Continue reading $75,000 FDNY Robodog Goes to Work, Falls Over Almost Immediately
Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI
Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff. “As you know, our industry has been under significant pressure for more than a year. The economic headwinds that have hurt many of our clients and partners are also affecting… Continue reading Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI
Reddit Demands Payments for AI Trained on Its Users
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable. But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” Pay Up Reddit has announced that it will start charging a premium for AI companies that scrape its data to train their models, the New York… Continue reading Reddit Demands Payments for AI Trained on Its Users
Experts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine
“The whole city is at a loss, what it was. UFO?” Flash of Light An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation. A video shared by Ukraine’s ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba on Twitter shows the bizarre… Continue reading Experts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine
Debris Rains Down on Protected Wildlife After Starship Explosion
SpaceX’s first orbital Starship launch attempt saw the most powerful rocket ever built soar to epic new heights. But before the behemoth spacecraft could make it into orbit, it started tumbling uncontrollably through the sky before yet another massive explosion. And what goes up must come back down. “Getting reports from multiple people now of… Continue reading Debris Rains Down on Protected Wildlife After Starship Explosion
Twitter Suspends the AI Trying to Destroy Humanity
Another L for ChaosGPT. Foiled Again It’s another bad day to be a humanity-exterminating AI. ChaosGPT — that autonomous AI agent that was tasked to “destroy humanity” and then set loose to adapt as it tries to accomplish that goal — was foiled again this week when, after focusing its annihilation efforts on using Twitter-facilitated… Continue reading Twitter Suspends the AI Trying to Destroy Humanity
Did Elon’s Childish Obsession With 4/20 Lead to Today’s Starship Explosion?
Hmm… SpaceX managed to get its Starship spacecraft, the most powerful rocket ever built, off the launchpad at its South Texas testing facilities. But getting it into orbit proved to be far more difficult, with the 400-foot rocket and booster stack tumbling hopelessly through the air minutes after launch, before ending in a massive fireball.… Continue reading Did Elon’s Childish Obsession With 4/20 Lead to Today’s Starship Explosion?