“It seems like he doesn’t know about the Retweet button.” RIP In an apparently inadvertent meta-commentary, an artificial intelligence stan seems to have passed off someone else’s tweet as his own — while hyping up AI’s potential for replacing human workers. “RIP website designers,” begins the tweet posted by Rowan Cheung, who per his LinkedIn… Continue reading Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole
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Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results
“It looks wrong and ugly, but also very cute.” Narwhal-ish ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns, The Guardian reports. That’s impressive. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for. Per the Guardian, the trend was first popularized by crochet enthusiast Alexandra Woolner, who went viral… Continue reading Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results
Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience
Blake Lemoine — the fired Google engineer who last year went to the press with claims that Google’s Large Language Model (LLM), the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), is actually sentient — is back. Lemoine first went public with his machine sentience claims last June, initially in The Washington Post. And though Google has… Continue reading Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience
Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT
Come on, dude, really? New Blood Multi-hyphenate tech guy Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-“woke” artificial intelligence. According to a scoop by The Information, the Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO has been reaching out to AI researchers about building a competitor to… Continue reading Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT
Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison
Image by Justin Sullivan via Getty / Futurism According to a report from The Mercury News, new court documents have revealed that infamous Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has given birth to her second child — a development that Holmes’ legal team is hoping will help keep their client out of prison, at least for the… Continue reading Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison
Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI
Same, Elon. Same. Relatable Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence might mean for humanity? So is Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. “Having a bit of AI existential angst today,” the billionaire tweeted over the weekend, just a few hours after starting the day on a much lighter… Continue reading Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI
Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum
Wait, what? Vacuum Gleaner A team of physicists claims to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, Quanta reports — a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum tech. The work builds on previous research by Tohoku University theoretical physicist Masahiro Hotta, who back in 2008 claimed to have found… Continue reading Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum
Tesla Has Totally Paused New Installations of “Full Self-Driving” After Safety Concerns
This is probably for the best. Crash Love Bad news for Tesla stans: the Elon Musk-owned company is pausing all new installations of its controversial “Full Self-Driving” software after federal regulators deemed it a “crash risk.” As The Verge reports, anyone who has purchased the $15,000 FSD add-on and not yet installed it — even if… Continue reading Tesla Has Totally Paused New Installations of “Full Self-Driving” After Safety Concerns
Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States
All we are is dust in the wind, apparently. What Even Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like substance have emerged in multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast. As a local CBS affiliate in Baltimore reports, there appears to be dust or powder falling from the sky and accumulating on cars and in yards in… Continue reading Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States
Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI
Is anyone safe? ScabGPT AI replacing your job is already happening — and apparently, some of your bosses are happy to admit it. With the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the relevance of human workers, ranging from writers to coders, has come under threat of obsolescence. And the threat is very real, it seems. According to a… Continue reading Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI