“I could easily see 30 percent of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period.” Welp It’s happening — companies are actually replacing human workers with artificial intelligence. In an interview with Bloomberg, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that tech company is slowing or suspending hiring for any jobs that could possibly be… Continue reading IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources
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Elon Musk Admits Starship Didn’t Initially Respond to Self-Destruct Command
That’s not good. 40 Long Seconds During a Twitter Spaces chat over the weekend, The New York Times reports, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company’s massive Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster only self-destructed after a lengthy delay after receiving the command. The giant 400-foot stack of rocket and booster took off from… Continue reading Elon Musk Admits Starship Didn’t Initially Respond to Self-Destruct Command
Pornhub Just Blocked the Entire State of Utah
Starting this week, Pornhub has completely disabled its website for everybody living in the state of Utah, Vice reports — a significant escalation over a controversial new law that requires porn sites to verify users’ ages without having much of a plan as to how to enforce it. Critics argue the new law isn’t just unconstitutional,… Continue reading Pornhub Just Blocked the Entire State of Utah
Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions
Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, says that he handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model in an attempt to save money. “I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4 (via the DoNotPay chat we are building),” Browder tweeted. “I gave AutoGPT access to my… Continue reading Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions
ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue
Is this the future of video games? AI NPCs A particularly crafty modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give non-player characters (NPCs) in the VR edition of the iconic 2011 video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue on the spot and have an actual conversation with the… Continue reading ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue
VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles
“I don’t think our readers care, to be totally honest.” All Aboard Tech finance publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI’s Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles. And the folks in charge of the effort really don’t seem too shy about it. “I think of it as like having another person on the team,”… Continue reading VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles
Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter
“It all went south.” Bad Timing Former Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey isn’t impressed with how current CEO Elon Musk is running the social media platform — a significant about-face that signals the deterioration of a once-strong relationship. In comments made on his new decentralized Twitter clone, Bluesky, Dorsey said that Musk “should have walked… Continue reading Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter
Elon Musk Says Starship Generated an Unexpected “Rock Tornado”
Yikes. Rock Out The fallout from SpaceX’s literally explosive Starship orbital test continues, with CEO Elon Musk now admitting that it caused even more weirdness than we thought before. During a Twitter Spaces talk over the weekend, Musk said the world’s most powerful rocket to date generated a “rock tornado” during liftoff, which was absolutely… Continue reading Elon Musk Says Starship Generated an Unexpected “Rock Tornado”
Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.” Alarm Bells Geoffrey Hinton, as one of the foremost pioneers of artificial intelligence, is often hailed as the “godfather of AI.” His seminal work in neural networks won him the attention of Google, where he’s worked for… Continue reading Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work
Chinese Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars
Researchers claim that China’s Zhurong rover, which has spent months exploring the Martian surface, may have found evidence — though not quite proof — of liquid water at low latitudes where temperatures are relatively warm and more suitable for life. It’s a provocative claim, as until now scientists believed only solid or gaseous states of water… Continue reading Chinese Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars