As sales continue to plummet worldwide, Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver assistance system. As Bloomberg reports, the head of the project, dubbed Dojo and which CEO Elon Musk used to hype up immensely, is leaving the company. The team has already lost around… Continue reading Tesla Shutting Down Its AI Supercomputer As Staff Leaves in Droves to Join Competitor
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Scientists Fed One Group of People Ultraprocessed Foods and Another Group Whole Foods, and the Difference in What Happened to Them Was Wild
As the industrial food system pushes ultraprocessed foods to every corner of the globe, new research shows that even seemingly healthy packaged meals may fall short of the benefits offered by whole, minimally processed foods. A fascinating new study published in Nature Medicine dove into the real-world effects ultraprocessed foods have on the human body. Following a six-month… Continue reading Scientists Fed One Group of People Ultraprocessed Foods and Another Group Whole Foods, and the Difference in What Happened to Them Was Wild
Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions
We’re continuing to hear more and more accounts of AI psychosis — an eerie phenomenon in which users become consumed by paranoia and delusions after extensive conversations with an AI chatbot. It’s hard to say how pervasive the trend is, but a new investigation from the Wall Street Journal offers a disturbing clue. The newspaper… Continue reading Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions
OpenAI Bringing Back More Parasocial Version of ChatGPT After Users Scream and Cry That Their Robot Friend Got Taken Away
ChatGPT’s fans have developed intense attachments to some of the “personalities” exhibited by the company’s large language models (LLMs) — and as such, many were in a state of panic when the choice to switch between models like GPT-4o, 4.5, and others was abruptly taken away after the release of GPT-5. OpenAI briefly kiboshed the… Continue reading OpenAI Bringing Back More Parasocial Version of ChatGPT After Users Scream and Cry That Their Robot Friend Got Taken Away
Scientists Find Evidence That Ozempic Can Reverse Aging
Image by Steve Christo / Corbis via Getty / Futurism Scientists have found new evidence that Ozempic-like drugs can help reverse aging — yet another health benefit added to the laundry list of off-label usages for the popular diabetes jab. In a new, not-yet-peer-reviewed paper, research led by scientist Varun Dwaraka of the TruDiagnostic aging… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Ozempic Can Reverse Aging
GPT-5 Launch Demo Plagued With Catastrophically Dumb Errors
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is finally here and already powering ChatGPT, but it hasn’t made a great first impression. In a livestream dedicated to the release, OpenAI tried to show off its newest large language model which CEO Sam Altman called a “significant step along the path to AGI”— but instead turned heads with some catastrophically dumb… Continue reading GPT-5 Launch Demo Plagued With Catastrophically Dumb Errors
AI Industry Nervous About Small Detail: They’re Not Making Any Real Money
Like it or not, it’s safe to assume AI will be a conversation that defines the rest of the 2020s. The recent launch of OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5, comes as ChatGPT ascends to the fifth most-visited website in the world, ahead of Wikipedia, Reddit, TikTok and Amazon. In just three short years, the software has upended education,… Continue reading AI Industry Nervous About Small Detail: They’re Not Making Any Real Money
AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?
What jobs, exactly, is so-called “artificial intelligence” supposed to revolutionize, and for whose benefit? The answers to those rarely-asked questions have become increasingly clear in recent months, as the looming threat of AI automation appears to be taking a concrete toll on the workforce. The bombshell July jobs report has finally confirmed what many US… Continue reading AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?
China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots
It’s no secret that China is blazing full-steam into the future, developing technological marvels like levitating bullet trains, robot boxing fights, and a supercomputer network in space. But as geopolitical tensions simmer, the People’s Republic is also using its technological savvy to build cutting-edge weapons tech. The Chinese state broadcaster CCTV recently released a brief… Continue reading China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots
OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework
For years, teachers have been bashing their heads against the wall as students outsource their homework to large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT. The time-honored tradition of parenting-by-screen — grossly exacerbated by the rise of LLM chatbots — is now coming to a head with what many have called a “crisis in student literacy,” as… Continue reading OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework