Don’t let AI critics tell you it’s good for nothing: the amount of money being spent on AI infrastructure is so enormous that it’s literally propping up the US economy. The drawback, of course, is that if the AI industry fails, it could drag the rest of the economy down with it. In 2024, the S&P 500… Continue reading If the AI Industry Fails, It Could Take the Rest of Us Down With It
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Tesla’s Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It’s Back to 2017 Levels
Ten years ago, it was rare to see a Tesla on the road. The Model S, despite being the world’s best-selling EV at the time, sold just over 50,000 units worldwide, making it rarer to see on the road than the exceedingly rare Porsche Macan. In the following years, Tesla rocketed to the top of… Continue reading Tesla’s Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It’s Back to 2017 Levels
As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low
The US Education Department, which the Trump administration is actively attempting to dismantle, has released the latest math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors — and they’re an absolute disaster. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the scores have hit an all-time low, even by America’s historically underwhelming standards. It’s a worrying sign… Continue reading As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low
GPT-5 Is Making Huge Factual Errors, Users Say
It’s been just over a month since OpenAI dropped its long-awaited GPT-5 large language model (LLM) — and it hasn’t stopped spewing an astonishing amount of strange falsehoods since then. From the AI experts at the Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Artificial Intelligence and irked Redditors on r/ChatGPTPro, to even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman… Continue reading GPT-5 Is Making Huge Factual Errors, Users Say
Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves
Tesla has quietly changed how it defines “Full Self-Driving,” Electrek reports, in a way that awfully sounds like it’s giving up on CEO Elon Musk’s perennially pushed-back promise that its cars will actually drive themselves without human help. The change comes in a document outlining a potential and absolutely ludicrous $1 trillion compensation package for… Continue reading Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves
The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning
More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a computer simulation. Beloved by such strange bedfellows as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman, Bostrom has released two other influential missives… Continue reading The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning
No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable
Procedurally-generated open exploration game No Man’s Sky recently got one of its biggest updates ever, a whopping nine years after it was first launched, allowing players to customize their own spaceships to a baffling level of detail — and the resulting creativity is truly out of this world. The “Voyagers” update, which rolled out late… Continue reading No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable
Orson Welles’ Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI
Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” — but the late directors’ estate is calling bull. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles’ estate on behalf of the auteur’s daughter Beatrice, said that the family… Continue reading Orson Welles’ Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI
Midjourney Is in Major Trouble
AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. According to documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the startup for “brazenly” infringing on its intellectual property by letting its users create AI-generated images and videos of its copyrighted characters — which, due to… Continue reading Midjourney Is in Major Trouble
Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment
One of the most prominent pioneers of artificial intelligence has some grim predictions about what the technology he created is soon going to unleash onto humankind. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work on neural networks earned him the title of “Godfather of AI,” suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that tech CEOs… Continue reading Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment