“No point in fighting with the truth.” Imperfect Conductor LK-99 was meant to revolutionize the world of physics, as a superconductor that could provide perfect electrical conductivity at room temperature. For a sweet moment in time, the promises felt tangible: vastly improved efficiency of power grids, cheaper maglev trains, lightning-speed device charging. But as it turns… Continue reading That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart
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Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner
Bleach-infused rice surprise, anyone? Bone Apple Teeth Bleach-infused rice surprise, anyone? As The Guardian reports, a New Zealand grocery store’s recipe-suggesting AI, dubbed the Pak ‘n Save Savey Meal Bot, has gone viral this week after suggesting that its users chef up a series of poisonous, cannibalistic, or otherwise death-inducing-slash-horrifying meals. Per the report, the… Continue reading Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner
Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”
They tried. Crisis Mode It’s no secret that OpenAI’s gangbusters chatbot ChatGPT has become the bane of educators trying to get their pupils to turn in some honest work. Cheating will never go away, but chatbots just make it more tempting and easy than ever. The thing with being a cheat, though, is that a good one has… Continue reading Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”
That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Had a Psychiatric Detention
Last month, Air Force veteran and former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency David Grusch renewed his allegations in front of the House Oversight Committee, accusing the US government of secretly hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life and working to reverse-engineer the otherworldly relics. We remain deeply skeptical of his far-fetched claims — at least pending extraordinary… Continue reading That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Had a Psychiatric Detention
Scientists Puzzled by Human-Like Skull That Matches No Known Species
Image by Martinón-Torres et al Scientists have found and analyzed an ancient skull which, while decidedly human-like, does not appear to belong to our branch of Homo sapiens — or any other known hominin lineage, for that matter. The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, describes how the skull — found in the Hualongdong… Continue reading Scientists Puzzled by Human-Like Skull That Matches No Known Species
Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us
“Bad things could happen.” Balancing Act Another day, another Silicon Valley AI exec straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay. James Manyika, a former technological advisor to the Obama administration and Google’s freshly-appointed head of “tech and society,” told The Washington Post that AI is “an amazing, powerful, transformational technology.” But, like… Continue reading Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us
Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space
Kudos. Great Atmosphere Richard Branson’s space tourism startup Virgin Galactic kicked off its first-ever all-tourist trip into the upper reaches of the atmosphere today — but fell far short of what could reasonably be called “space.” The mission, dubbed Galactic 02, saw the company’s “spacecraft” VSS Unity rocket to an altitude of just 49.7 miles,… Continue reading Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space
Elon Musk Put Tesla on Autopilot During Date With Grimes, Then Closed His Eyes and Took His Hands Off the Wheel
“I was like, oh shit, this guy is f*cking crazy.” Twisted Metal Nobody has ever accused Elon Musk of being a regular guy, but a new excerpt from an upcoming biography casts him as a genuinely tedious nerd — when he isn’t using his electric cars to drive recklessly. Take a new excerpt posted to… Continue reading Elon Musk Put Tesla on Autopilot During Date With Grimes, Then Closed His Eyes and Took His Hands Off the Wheel
Zoom Insists It Wasn’t Using Private Calls to Train AI System
Nothing to see here, folks! Zoom With a View Zoom wants you to know that it definitely, 100 percent hasn’t been using your video calls to train its AI — even if its convoluted Terms of Service agreement seems to strongly suggest otherwise. To back up a bit: the pandemic-era video conferencing service came under… Continue reading Zoom Insists It Wasn’t Using Private Calls to Train AI System
The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy
“The data seems a bit sloppy.” Science Scandal Researchers at South Korea’s Quantum Energy Research Centre made a huge splash when they announced a few weeks back that they’d accomplished a potentially groundbreaking first: a “room-temperature ambient pressure superconductor.” In simple terms, superconductors can conduct electricity without any loss of energy. Conventionally, they need to be cooled… Continue reading The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy