This is horrific. Rest in Peace More and more companies are deploying robots to perform tasks alongside human coworkers. And those robot-worker interactions come with their own occupational hazards. Case in point, a robotics company employee was crushed to death by a robot in a South Korean food handling factory after it failed to tell him… Continue reading Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death
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Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims
“The best thing that could come out of this job is to prove that there are aliens.” Head Out After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon’s UFO office is stepping down. As Politico reports, Sean Kirkpatrick is leaving his role as the director of the Department of… Continue reading Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims
Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4
The AI wars have become a parameter measuring contest. Iambic Parameter Tech giants are waging a war, trying to one-up each other’s efforts to cook up the largest and most capable large language models (LLMs), which are the AI tech powering tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Amazon’s now looking to come up with its own offering,… Continue reading Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4
Twitter Staff Almost Called the Cops During One of Elon Musk’s Tantrums, Fearing He’d Hurt Himself
“They thought he was going to self-harm himself.” Elon Upgrade Everyone knows that Elon Musk broke Twitter after he bought it, but fewer were aware — until now — that Twitter seems to have broken him right back. In an interview with CNBC‘s Squawk Box, author Ben Mezrich said that he learned all kinds of dirt about… Continue reading Twitter Staff Almost Called the Cops During One of Elon Musk’s Tantrums, Fearing He’d Hurt Himself
Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About
In a new paper, a trio of Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer’s plans for more advanced AIs. Written by DeepMind researchers Steve Yadlowsky, Lyric Doshi and Nilesh Tripuraneni, the not-yet-peer-reviewed paper breaks down what a lot of people have observed in recent months: that today’s AI models… Continue reading Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About
Peter Jackson Threatens to Release Even More AI Beatles Songs
Maybe just let it be? Roll Over Beethoven The Beatles — or at least their surviving two members — recently made a splash by releasing a new track that featured AI-isolated vocals from a 1978 John Lennon demo called “Now and Then.” The result, a mid-tier and largely forgettable Beatles bop, had us wondering if… Continue reading Peter Jackson Threatens to Release Even More AI Beatles Songs
Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They’re Starving?
“Is it wrong to waste such a neatly packaged meal?” Clean Plate A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about — drumroll, please — the ethics of astronaut cannibalism in space. “Death among spacefarers has always been rapid and always consumed whole crews,” Kelly and Zach Weinsersmith,… Continue reading Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They’re Starving?
In Newly-Released Audio, SBF Admits He’s “Done Net Harm to the World”
“The fact that I have done that harm weighs enormously on me.” Net Harm Last week, FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts, concluding a tumultuous trial. The disgraced crypto baron is now facing a “very long sentence” for defrauding investors out of a whopping $8 billion, per judge Lewis Kaplan,… Continue reading In Newly-Released Audio, SBF Admits He’s “Done Net Harm to the World”
That Matte Black Cybertruck Looks Absolutely Horrendous Up Close
This is just embarrassing. Paint It Black In theory, we’re less than a month away from Tesla’s long-awaited Cybertruck delivery event at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas. And while we’ve come across plenty of public sightings over the last couple of months, the fit and finish for the EV still remain spotty at best. Case… Continue reading That Matte Black Cybertruck Looks Absolutely Horrendous Up Close
Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway
“Based on the simulation results, we can’t rule out that a fully autonomous vehicle might have struck the child.” Additional Care Late last month, Cruise — that’s General Motors’ autonomous vehicle division — announced it was suspending all driverless operations, citing safety concerns. A major setback, the decision followed the California DMV’s revoking of Cruise’s… Continue reading Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway