After a five-month strike, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has officially reached an agreement with Hollywood studios. Writers are officially back at work. And while better residuals, health and pension contributions, and pay increases are unquestionably a big win for the Guild, things get a little murkier when it comes to artificial intelligence. AI… Continue reading Strike Ends With Writers Guild Forcing Concessions on AI
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Should Doctors Only Pretend to Resuscitate Dying Patients?
Image by Getty / Futurism Healthcare professionals are ethically obliged to do all they can to ensure the survival of their patients. But in some instances, some physicians are willing to go the extra mile and attempt to perform CPR on a patient even though they know there’s absolutely no hope of survival, The Messenger… Continue reading Should Doctors Only Pretend to Resuscitate Dying Patients?
The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Appears to Be Melting Down
Who’s going to be the adult in the room now? Do or Die Binance was left to clean up the mess last fall when FTX crashed — but now, the world’s biggest crypto exchange appears to be falling apart itself. As the Wall Street Journal reports, one of the exchange’s co-founders warned employees that the company… Continue reading The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Appears to Be Melting Down
Alabama Prisoner Protests Being Test Subject for New Execution Technique
This sounds like a nightmarish way to be put to death. Death Row Alabama wants to use an experimental execution technique as capital punishment for one of its death row inmates — and the inmate in question is fighting back. As the Associated Press reports, lawyers for Kenneth Eugene Smith, the man upon whom the… Continue reading Alabama Prisoner Protests Being Test Subject for New Execution Technique
Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm
Google’s search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? Don’t laugh: ChatGPT. This latest case of AI-generated misinformation was first spotted by an X-formerly-Twitter user named Tyler Glaiel, who took to the platform on Monday to share a screenshot of what happened when he typed “can you melt eggs” into Google’s search bar. Naturally, the… Continue reading Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm
Iranian Authorities Say AI Could Help Issue Fatwas Faster Than Ever Before
You get a fatwa, and you get a fatwa, and you get a fatwa! Looking Backward Government officials in Iran are looking to modernize — by using artificial intelligence to help clerics issue fatwas, or Islamic law rulings, at unprecedented speed. As the Financial Times reports, state-linked officials in the theocracy’s holy city of Qom are… Continue reading Iranian Authorities Say AI Could Help Issue Fatwas Faster Than Ever Before
People Disgusted With Flavor of Coke’s AI-Generated Soda
It’s “bad. Don’t drink it.” New Coke Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it won’t come as a surprise that Coca-Cola has jumped on the AI bandwagon, asking an algorithm to come up with a new flavor. The flavor, dubbed “Year 3000,” is apparently supposed to taste like the future — and quench your… Continue reading People Disgusted With Flavor of Coke’s AI-Generated Soda
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mom Says the Government Is Being Super Mean to Her Beautiful Boy
According to Barbara Fried, it’s all just a witch hunt. Mama’s Boy As former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial draws nearer, the disgraced Forbes cover star’s mother, Stanford law professor Barbara Fried, is holding the line that her son is completely innocent, thanks very much! Bankman-Fried, whose impended criminal trial is due to start on… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mom Says the Government Is Being Super Mean to Her Beautiful Boy
What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse
If “Buzzy the Robot” quizzes won’t save BuzzFeed, what will? The ur-viral content site BuzzFeed has often served as a trailblazer — and sometimes a canary in the coal mine — for the digital media industry. Now, its struggle to succeed after a pivot to artificial intelligence could signal tough times ahead for publishers that… Continue reading What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse
Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought
Microsoft’s data centers in West Des Moines, Iowa guzzled massive amounts of water last year, the Associated Press reported earlier this month, to keep cool while training OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, the Microsoft-backed company’s most advanced publicly available large language model. Critics point out a further inconvenient detail: this happened in the midst of a more than… Continue reading Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought