Be afraid. Androids Dream An OpenAI-powered and very realistically-faced humanoid machine seems to be winning by leaps and bounds in becoming the creepiest demo of AI and robot tech out there. During last week’s annual International Conference on Robotics and Automation symposium in London, Ameca, the humanoid robot known for her eerily-realistic facial expressions, generated… Continue reading Robot With Super Realistic Face Describes AI “Nightmare Scenario”
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Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off
Cowabunga! Pie in the Sky A robot pizza delivery startup that raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after a series of technological setbacks, according to The Information. The company, founded back in 2015, was working on a mobile pizza-making machine for years, but struggled to turn it into a reality. As a… Continue reading Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off
EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers
Image by Getty/ Futurism A legal battle between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a major producer of plastic takeout containers just got a little more complicated, according to a report from The Guardian. The EPA sued the container maker, a Houston-based firm called Inhance, back in December 2022, on the grounds that Inhance had… Continue reading EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers
Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month With Wildly Transphobic Outbursts
This guy sucks. Self-Inflicted Boomerism It’s only day two of Pride Month, and Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already jumping headfirst into deeply transphobic waters. The billionaire took to Twitter today to post a series of transphobic tweets, an outburst that was seemingly spurred, at least in part, by the release of… Continue reading Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month With Wildly Transphobic Outbursts
OpenAI CEO Says He Finally Watched “Ex Machina”
“Pretty good movie but I can’t figure out why everyone told me to watch it.” On the Movie OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some breaking news for us: at long last, he’s watched the 2015 sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina” — a movie you’d think would be required viewing for a guy who explicitly says he’s working on… Continue reading OpenAI CEO Says He Finally Watched “Ex Machina”
Startups Have an Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions
Image by Getty Images Office vibes a little off? We’ve all been there — and some workplaces, apparently, have bad energy to the degree that they’re turning towards ketamine as a vibe cure. You can’t make this up. According to a report from Bloomberg, some employers are turning — checks notes — ketamine startups in… Continue reading Startups Have an Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions
US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation
It was all just a “thought experiment.” Going Rogue As news of an AI drone reportedly killing its operator during a military simulation makes waves online, the US Air Force (USAF) has stepped in to deny it ever happened. The story emerged during a Royal Aeronautical Society summit last month, when USAF Colonel Tucker “Cinco”… Continue reading US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation
Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years
“It’s bigger than climate change, believe it or not.” Beyond an Emergency Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet, who once led the Silicon Valley behemoth’s Google X “moonshot” division, is very stressed about AI. “It is beyond an emergency,” Gawdat said in a new interview on a podcast called “The Diary of a CEO,” hosted… Continue reading Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years
Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom
The X-ray marks the spot. X-Ray Specs For the first time, a team of scientists has imaged a single atom by using X-rays. And according to the resulting study published in the journal Nature, it offers transformative advantages over other techniques. “Atoms can be routinely imaged with scanning probe microscopes, but without X-rays one cannot tell… Continue reading Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom
Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret
“You could say I feel lost.” Godfather Part II Yoshua Bengio, a famed computer scientist who’s considered one of the three “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, is starting to feel a little blue about his life’s work, as AI — or at least its breathless hype — seems poised to spiral out of control. In a new interview… Continue reading Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret