Image by Getty / Futurism Doctors experimenting with AI tools to help diagnose patients is nothing new. But getting them to trust the AIs they’re using is another matter entirely. To establish that trust, researchers at Cornell University attempted to create a more transparent AI system that works by counseling doctors in the same way… Continue reading New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague
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Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food
We’ll take one 3D-printed Plasticburger to go, please. Plasticburger Researchers at a startup called Beehex are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass — all with the help of a lab-engineered, plastic-eating bacteria. “What you see over here is a shipping container… we have completely changed that,” founder Anjan Contractor said… Continue reading Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food
Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos
“We could see inside people’s garages and their private properties.” Passing Around Videos Employees at Tesla have secretly been watching and passing around “intimate” videos recorded by Tesla car cameras, Reuters reports, despite the company claiming that the cameras are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” According to the report, employees privately… Continue reading Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos
ChatGPT Falsely Accuses Law Professor of Sexual Assault
Nobody deserves this. Phony Bologna ChatGPT is throwing around some serious allegations. In an editorial for USA Today, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote that he was surprised to learn from a colleague who’d been researching ChatGPT that it had falsely accused him of groping students. As Turley wrote, that colleague, UCLA’s Eugene Volokh,… Continue reading ChatGPT Falsely Accuses Law Professor of Sexual Assault
Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and coauthor of the book “The Age of AI,” has said that he’s worried humans will start falling in love with AI. It’s a fair concern, considering that, well, a good number of them already have. “Imagine a world where you have an AI tutor that increases the educational capability… Continue reading Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs
Tech Company Accidentally Posts Racist “White-Only” Job Listing, Shrinks Into a Corncob
Yikes. The Quiet Part An IT company called Arthur Grand Technologies is having its worst PR nightmare — and appears to be in full meltdown. After users on social media spotted an incredibly racist job listing from the company, its website has been completely shut down without explanation, Vice reports. At first glance, it appears… Continue reading Tech Company Accidentally Posts Racist “White-Only” Job Listing, Shrinks Into a Corncob
Elon Musk Puzzled to Learn That He’s Hardcoded Into the Twitter Source
“This is the first time I’m learning of this by the way.” Source? Elon Musk is, as we all recently learned, hardwired into Twitter’s source code — but according to him, that’s news to him. As Insider points out, the revelation of Musk’s name in Twitter’s recommendations algorithm — along with “Democrat,” “Republican,” and “power… Continue reading Elon Musk Puzzled to Learn That He’s Hardcoded Into the Twitter Source
Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens
They’re just not interested. Meh-taverse Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler. The survey found that only 29 percent of the 5,600 US teens polled owned a device capable of VR, and only four percent of them said… Continue reading Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens
Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI
“The last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.” Robot Rock It’s been more than two years since be-helmeted French house outfit Daft Punk bid “adieu” to their decades-long collaboration — and in a new interview, one of the erstwhile duo revealed that artificial intelligence… Continue reading Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI
AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone
“Clearview is a total affront to peoples’ rights, full stop, and police should not be able to use this tool.” Face Disgrace Clearview AI, the company behind a widely-used facial recognition technology that has already led American police to charge innocent people with crimes they didn’t commit — claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos… Continue reading AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone