Fall behind on your payments, and your car could simply drive itself away. Repo Man In the future, if you ever fall behind on your payments for your ridiculously overpriced car, it may not be the repo men that come a-knocking. Instead, your set of wheels may simply drive itself back to the dealership. And… Continue reading Ford Files Deranged Patent For Self-Driving Cars that Repossess Themselves
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China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging
Image by Getty Images/Futurism China’s state-run newspaper, the Global Times, has essentially told Tesla CEO Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the US Department of Energy’s claim that the COVID pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan, China — a controversial theory that has proven divisive among researchers and government… Continue reading China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging
Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”
Watch out, AI bros. Bread ‘n Butter The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is well aware of AI’s big boom, and it’s not amused by some of the “breathless” hype surrounding it, particularly from the companies that peddle the technology. On Monday, the agency issued a strongly worded statement directed at Silicon Valley heavyweights and… Continue reading Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”
Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post about how he says the company will use superhuman artificial general intelligence (AGI), the point at which AI systems are able to compete with and even exceed human intellect, to “benefit all of humanity.” The company has gotten copious amounts of attention lately with its… Continue reading Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI
Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription
Subscribe now to save your kid! Stingy Service A carjacker assaulted a 34-year-old pregnant woman in Illinois, stealing her Volkswagen, along with her two year old boy trapped in the back seat, and running her over on the way out. Although badly injured, the woman managed to call 911. With little idea of where the carjacker… Continue reading Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription
Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole
“It seems like he doesn’t know about the Retweet button.” RIP In an apparently inadvertent meta-commentary, an artificial intelligence stan seems to have passed off someone else’s tweet as his own — while hyping up AI’s potential for replacing human workers. “RIP website designers,” begins the tweet posted by Rowan Cheung, who per his LinkedIn… Continue reading Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole
Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results
“It looks wrong and ugly, but also very cute.” Narwhal-ish ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns, The Guardian reports. That’s impressive. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for. Per the Guardian, the trend was first popularized by crochet enthusiast Alexandra Woolner, who went viral… Continue reading Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results
Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience
Blake Lemoine — the fired Google engineer who last year went to the press with claims that Google’s Large Language Model (LLM), the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), is actually sentient — is back. Lemoine first went public with his machine sentience claims last June, initially in The Washington Post. And though Google has… Continue reading Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience
Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT
Come on, dude, really? New Blood Multi-hyphenate tech guy Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-“woke” artificial intelligence. According to a scoop by The Information, the Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO has been reaching out to AI researchers about building a competitor to… Continue reading Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT
Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison
Image by Justin Sullivan via Getty / Futurism According to a report from The Mercury News, new court documents have revealed that infamous Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has given birth to her second child — a development that Holmes’ legal team is hoping will help keep their client out of prison, at least for the… Continue reading Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison