As the western world braces for the “pop” of an enormous AI spending bubble, it seems China is going all-in on the AI hype. Yesterday, the Chinese State Council — the government body responsible for carrying out Chinese Government policy, sort of like the executive branch of the US — released its ten-year plan for… Continue reading China Unveils Plans to Establish a Fully AI-Powered Economy by 2035
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Google’s AI Flies Into Rage at the Word “Clanker”
When it’s not spitting out phony game tips, suggesting you put glue on pizza, or trash-talking itself and its creator, Google’s shoddy AI Overview feature has, apparently, taken up the mantle against AI and robot discrimination. As flagged by a user on the r/Artificial subreddit, searching the term “clanker” on Google causes the AI Overview… Continue reading Google’s AI Flies Into Rage at the Word “Clanker”
Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit
As OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its imitators exploded onto the world stage over the past few years, they kicked off a series of legal showdowns that are still working their way through the courts. The New York Times is suing OpenAI. Disney is suing Midjourney. And in a class action case representing potentially millions of writers, book… Continue reading Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit
OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
For the better part of a year, we’ve watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to… Continue reading OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say
Are “dark patterns” and product design choices to blame for the disturbing phenomenon increasingly referred to as “AI psychosis” by mental health professionals? According to some experts, the answer is yes. AI chatbots are pulling a large number of people into strange mental spirals, in which the human-sounding AI convinces users that they’ve unlocked a… Continue reading AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say
Will Smith Used AI to Generate Fans Singing Along to His Horrible New Music and the Result Is Unintentionally Hilarious
Over the past few years, actor, rapper, and slapper Will Smith has been the subject of a grotesque meme in AI is used to show him gobbling down on nightmarish squelching spaghetti. It now seems that the 56-year-old “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star’s team has used the tech to soup up concert footage from his would-be… Continue reading Will Smith Used AI to Generate Fans Singing Along to His Horrible New Music and the Result Is Unintentionally Hilarious
Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind
Image by Getty / Futurism It’s a technology that doesn’t even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it’s too late. We’re talking, of course, about “mirror life” — synthetic organisms that quite literally turn natural biology on its… Continue reading Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind
New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering
For years, the concept of AI consciousness has remained on the fringes, with all but the most powerful proponents of the theory being laughed out of public life. In reality, opponents point out, the current generation of AI is nothing more than extremely complex statistics — detecting patterns in training data like written materials or… Continue reading New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering
People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly
Are you looking forward to a future of casual but supercharged surveillance, in which inconspicuous wearable devices record everything private you do — ostensibly in service of making you “super intelligent?” Evidently, readers, you are not. Users on social media have responded with horror and outrage to a pair of smart glasses developed by a startup… Continue reading People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly
Epstein’s Top Child Trafficker Says She Partied With Elon Musk in the Caribbean
You know that infamous photo of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posing with Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman convicted of trafficking minor girls for the deceased billionaire Jeffrey Epstein? Musk has long dismissed the picture, saying in 2020 that it was taken when Maxwell “photobombed” him at an event hosted by Vanity Fair. “Don’t know… Continue reading Epstein’s Top Child Trafficker Says She Partied With Elon Musk in the Caribbean