“I think of it more as an ideological statement.” Anti-Death Activist Billionaire tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel says he’s freezing his body when he dies — if only as a moment of anti-death activism. Thiel explained his “just in case” cryonics aspirations to journalist and former Twitter Filer Bari Weiss on Weiss’ podcast, Honestly,… Continue reading Billionaire Peter Thiel Says He’s Freezing His Body After Death Just in Case
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CEO of OpenAI Trashes Remote Work As a Failed “Experiment”
This is so not shocking. Work It Out OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has come out as one of the latest tech industry titans against remote work, which he says is harmful to creativity. During a so-called “fireside chat” hosted by the fintech giant Stripe, Altman, per Fortune, not only trashed the practice itself, but took on… Continue reading CEO of OpenAI Trashes Remote Work As a Failed “Experiment”
China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News
So it begins. Under AIrrest The age of artificial intelligence arrests appears to have kicked off in earnest in China, where a man was detained for using ChatGPT to allegedly generate fake news. As the South China Morning Post reports, a man identified only by his surname has been arrested in the country’s Gansu province after,… Continue reading China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News
ChatGPT Picks Stock Portfolio That Outperforms S&P 500
Will ChatGPT be your next fund manager? Dummy AI Stocks A dummy portfolio of stocks picked by ChatGPT outperformed the S&P 500 Index — a list of the 500 most valuable companies in the US — over a span of eight weeks, financial comparison site Finder.com found. The portfolio gained a considerable 4.9 percent between… Continue reading ChatGPT Picks Stock Portfolio That Outperforms S&P 500
Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool
Glue arms, baby. Glue arms. Agent 00Buggin’ There’s an assassin on the loose in Australia — but not the kind you might be thinking. As detailed in a recent study published in the journal Biology Letters, scientists have discovered a new type of tool-wielding insect, nicknamed the “assassin bug” for a creative — and deadly… Continue reading Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool
Scientists Spot Tragic Planet Being Eaten by a Dying Star
This is going to happen to Earth one day. Tastes Like Chicken Until recently, scientists had never spotted a star in the act of consuming a planet — and now that it’s been captured, we likely have a glimpse of Earth’s future. Astronomers at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology,… Continue reading Scientists Spot Tragic Planet Being Eaten by a Dying Star
ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo
This is sick. Shredding Bots AI chatbot sidekick ChatGPT has done it again. Thirteen-year-old guitarist Ava Toton asked the tool to “write a guitar solo” — and the results, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn’t disappoint. The musician turned simple, AI-generated guitar tab notations into a brain-searing solo. But should ChatGPT really get all… Continue reading ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo
Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”
“AI researchers are more like late-stage teenagers.” Kids in America Associate director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Robert Reich threw absolute daggers this week when, while speaking to Esquire about the newness of the AI industry and how that impacts its relationship to ethics, he likened those in the burgeoning field to actual… Continue reading Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”
OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT
And costs are still on the rise. Big Spender OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded research firm behind ChatGPT, is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map. People familiar with the company’s losses confirmed to The Information that OpenAI spent upwards of $540 million last year while developing its widely-used chatbot… Continue reading OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT
Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again
Image by Getty / Futurism Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for treatments in humans as well. Last month, a team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and biotech company Life Biosciences announced preclinical data showing that a new approach was able to… Continue reading Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again