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Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

“It’s not inconceivable.” Nonzero Chance Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist, is best known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence.” His seminal work on neural networks broke the mold by mimicking the processes of human cognition, and went on to form the foundation of machine learning models today. And now, in a lengthy interview with… Continue reading Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

CEO of OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Mean Comments Have Hurt Him

Little love has been lost lately between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI, a company he co-founded but later abandoned due to what he says were ideological differences. According to a recent report from Semafor, Musk went as far as to repeatedly attempt to take over the AI firm, but following an internal power struggle,… Continue reading CEO of OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Mean Comments Have Hurt Him

That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies

Ironically, the Pope commented on ethical AI usage this weekend, too. Drip God Did they fool you? Those mega-viral images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes. As Snopes reports, that pic of Il Papa that went viral over the weekend is, as lots of people suspected, a… Continue reading That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies

Elon Musk Bragged He Was Going to Open Source Twitter’s Code, Now Furious That Someone Leaked It Online

So which is it? Source Code Leak Swathes of Twitter’s source code leaked online months ago on GitHub, The New York Times reports, allowing practically anybody to get a detailed glimpse at the Elon Musk-owned company’s underlying code. It’s still unclear how long the source code was available for download, but according to the NYT,… Continue reading Elon Musk Bragged He Was Going to Open Source Twitter’s Code, Now Furious That Someone Leaked It Online

Government Working to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions

Get ’em! Subscription Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that sound like a great deal, but make it incredible difficulty to cancel? That practice may become punishable by law, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule proposal that just dropped. In a press release, the FTC said that its new “click to cancel” rule… Continue reading Government Working to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions

Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

Nice job, New York! I ❤️ New York New Yorkers aren’t exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, so researchers were pleasantly surprised when only a few were rude to some trash-collecting robots deployed in Greenwich Village. The Cornell researchers behind the experiment — which featured robotic trash cans that zoomed about Astor Place — found… Continue reading Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

“When the scammer calls you, he’ll sound just like your loved one.” Clone Con Anecdotal accounts were already abound of people losing money to scammers cloning the voices of their relatives. Now, it’s apparently become enough of a prevalent — and serious — issue that federal regulators feel the need to step in. On Monday,… Continue reading FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

We’re in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun

Good God, it’s 14 times taller than Earth! Planet Dwarfer NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has spotted an absolutely towering tornado roaring on the surface of the Sun, raging with swirls of plasma to such astounding heights that even our entire planet is humbled by its scale. Astronomers at the observatory had been tracking the “solar… Continue reading We’re in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun

Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos

Image by Getty / Futurism In more terrible news from the tiny-bits-of-plastic front: a recent study from researchers at the Netherlands’ Leiden University found that nanoplastics — particles even smaller than microplastics — cause absolutely horrid development problems in chicken embryos, leading to extensive malformations and birth defects in newborn chicks. “Polystyrene nanoplastics cause a… Continue reading Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos