They’re just not interested. Meh-taverse Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler. The survey found that only 29 percent of the 5,600 US teens polled owned a device capable of VR, and only four percent of them said… Continue reading Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens
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Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI
“The last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.” Robot Rock It’s been more than two years since be-helmeted French house outfit Daft Punk bid “adieu” to their decades-long collaboration — and in a new interview, one of the erstwhile duo revealed that artificial intelligence… Continue reading Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI
AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone
“Clearview is a total affront to peoples’ rights, full stop, and police should not be able to use this tool.” Face Disgrace Clearview AI, the company behind a widely-used facial recognition technology that has already led American police to charge innocent people with crimes they didn’t commit — claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos… Continue reading AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Furious His Regulators Banned ChatGPT
“There has clearly been too much zeal.” Permabanned After Italy banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a surprising detractor came out of the woodwork — the country’s own deputy prime minister. As Reuters reports, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has sounded off on the decision by the country’s privacy regulator, known as Garante, arguing that the ban stifles innovation… Continue reading Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Furious His Regulators Banned ChatGPT
Hollywood Panicking Over the Rise of Generative AI
Film studios are really starting to feel the heat. Copied on the Spot The power and ubiquity of generative AI has had people fearing for their livelihoods — especially artists, who worry that their work will be vulnerable to mass plagiarism by the AIs that are being “trained” on their art. And, as The Wall… Continue reading Hollywood Panicking Over the Rise of Generative AI
Professor Says He’ll Cancel Final If a Student Makes a Viral Video
Challenge accepted! TikTok Challenge Matthew Prince, a Taco Bell PR executive who also teaches marketing at Chapman University in California, challenged his 80 students: for just one of them could create a viral TikTok video that received at least one million views, The New York Times reports. If they were to succeed, Prince would cancel… Continue reading Professor Says He’ll Cancel Final If a Student Makes a Viral Video
Company Working on Rocket-Powered Passenger Plane That Goes Mach 9
“How much does the world change if you can get anywhere in an hour?” Round the World Making stuff go fast is one of humanity’s most basic and thrilling engineering pleasures. Now the startup Venus Aerospace wants to take that to another level entirely by creating a passenger aircraft that can go not Mach 1,… Continue reading Company Working on Rocket-Powered Passenger Plane That Goes Mach 9
The Cofounder of Cash App Just Got Murdered
“He was a generous decent human being who didn’t deserve to be killed.” Fatal Stabbing Bob Lee, a cofounder of Cash App and former Square executive and more recently the chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has died after being stabbed to death Tuesday night in downtown San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.… Continue reading The Cofounder of Cash App Just Got Murdered
Let’s Talk About That Study Linking Autism and Lithium in the Water
Image by Getty / Futurism So there’s a new study linking autism with naturally-occurring lithium in the drinking water supply — but there are some major caveats. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, the paper out of the University of Los Angeles looked at data from Denmark and found a correlation… Continue reading Let’s Talk About That Study Linking Autism and Lithium in the Water
US Military Caught Figuring Out How to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Op Campaigns
“When it comes to disinformation, the Pentagon should not be fighting fire with fire.” Do Unto Others The US Military’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is reportedly hoping to deploy deepfake-laden disinformation campaigns as part of its psy-op efforts, a SOCOM document leaked to The Intercept has revealed. The leaked document is an updated SOCOM gadget-slash-weaponry wishlist published… Continue reading US Military Caught Figuring Out How to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Op Campaigns