Another day, another nail in the burning coffin of this collapsing website. Magic Trick A warning to the wise: a new Twitter glitch is apparently resurfacing and restoring deleted tweets and un-retweeted retweets. Vincent isn’t the one who seems to be having this issue, pointing to a Mastodon toot from open-source developer Dick Morrell detailing… Continue reading New Twitter Bug Is So Embarrassing Our Heads Are Going to Explode
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Scientists Discover Brutal Planet That Sounds Like Darth Vader’s Mustafar
Is this the place where Obi-Wan Kenobi had the high ground? High Ground A team of astronomers has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet that appears to be absolutely covered with volcanoes. In fact, according to their findings, it could rival the most volcanically active celestial body in our solar system, Jupiter’s moon Io. In other words,… Continue reading Scientists Discover Brutal Planet That Sounds Like Darth Vader’s Mustafar
Seemingly AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Stock Market to Dip
Yikes. Bogus Bloomberg Here’s a concerning dispatch from the fresh pits of AI-assisted misinformation hell. A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon, almost certainly generated by an AI, garnered so much attention on Twitter this morning that, according to Insider, it caused the stock market to briefly dip. The picture was shared by… Continue reading Seemingly AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Stock Market to Dip
Youth-Obsessed Tech Mogul Now Swapping Blood With His Teenage Son
Image by Getty / Futurism An eccentric millionaire obsessed with staying young forever has apparently taken to getting blood transfusions from his teen son — and is giving some of his own to his dad, too, for good measure. As Bloomberg reports, 45-year-old tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson recently took to a Dallas-area health clinic with his 17-year-old… Continue reading Youth-Obsessed Tech Mogul Now Swapping Blood With His Teenage Son
This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just… Extremely Weird
Are those… tendrils? Sunspotting Fascinating new closeup images taken by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii show incredibly vivid details of the surface of the Sun. The images show the intricate features of a sunspot, which are isolated areas dotting the Sun’s surface where the magnetic field is staggering in strength. Thanks… Continue reading This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just… Extremely Weird
Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had Dirt on Bill Gates
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates had an affair — and the now-deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who knew all about it, allegedly used it as leverage. As the Wall Street Journal reports based on conversations with anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Epstein purportedly learned that Gates had been in an extramarital affair with a Russian bridge… Continue reading Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had Dirt on Bill Gates
Meet the AI Researcher Building His Own AGI
In the world of machine learning, few experts are as prominent — or flashy, judging by his incredible leopard print hat — as Ben Goertzel, the Brazilian-American founder of the research group SingularityNET. Perhaps best known as the human mind behind Sophia the Robot, Goertzel is credited with popularizing the term “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI.… Continue reading Meet the AI Researcher Building His Own AGI
AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize
“What the large language models are good at is saying what an answer should sound like, which is different from what an answer should be.” AI’m With Stupid Robotics researcher and AI expert Rodney Brooks is arguing that we’ve been vastly overestimating OpenAI’s large language models, on which its blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT is based on. In… Continue reading AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize
Cursed New AI Calls Debtors to Hassle Them for Money
Coming soon to a robocall near you. For Debt About It The rise of AI coincides with all-time debt highs — and one startup is looking use an AI-powered goon to shake folks down for cash faster than a human debt collector ever could. As Vice reports, the an outfit called Skit.AI is looking to usher in… Continue reading Cursed New AI Calls Debtors to Hassle Them for Money
Tesla Driver Sues, Saying Car Went Rogue and Forced Him to Crash It
“As a result of the attack, [he] suffered serious and permanent injuries.” Ride the Frightening In a new lawsuit, a rideshare driver claims that a Tesla he was operating for work went rogue and began driving on its own — nearly clipped some bystanders in the process, and ultimately forcing him to crash it to… Continue reading Tesla Driver Sues, Saying Car Went Rogue and Forced Him to Crash It