Looking for a patsy, ex-New York governor and current NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo found one: a one-armed man. As the New York Times reports, the aide in question, longtime Cuomo adviser Paul Francis, admitted to using ChatGPT to craft the disgraced former governor‘s new, typo-riddled housing policy plan. “It’s very hard to type with one… Continue reading Called Out for AI Slop, Andrew Cuomo Blames One-Armed Man
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Huge Number of People Who Used to Like Elon Musk Now Detest Him, Polling Shows
Billionaire Elon Musk’s popularity has fallen off a cliff — a particularly precipitous decline, because he used to be immensely popular before squandering it. According to the latest polling averages aggregated by statistician Nate Silver, the richest man in the world’s favorability is in free-fall, with a mere 39.4 percent of Americans seeing Musk positively, while… Continue reading Huge Number of People Who Used to Like Elon Musk Now Detest Him, Polling Shows
Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life
Last week, hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park in California, to play seemingly AI-generated clips of Elon Musk’s voice. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the satirical clips mock the billionaires in a number of creative ways, as seen in videos going viral on… Continue reading Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life
Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else
Oh God. Singed This morning, a crew of six women — including pop star Katy Perry, CBS News broadcast journalist and TV personality Gayle King, and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sánchez — rocketed to an altitude of 66 miles, just past the internationally agreed-upon edge of space. The 11-minute journey on board… Continue reading Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else
Nobel-Winning Scientist Says His Researchers Are Fleeing the Country Because of Trump’s Cruelty
Image by Getty / Futurism Last year, University of Washington School of Medicine professor of biochemistry David Baker won the Nobel Prize for his work on designing proteins that can be used in drugs, vaccines, materials, and sensors. But now that the Trump administration has begun to diminish the role of research and gut scientific… Continue reading Nobel-Winning Scientist Says His Researchers Are Fleeing the Country Because of Trump’s Cruelty
Former OpenAI Employee Rages Against Sam Altman: “Person of Low Integrity”
Them’s fightin’ words. Silent Riot A former OpenAI employee is joining Elon Musk’s campaign against CEO Sam Altman — and he’s got a lot to say about his former boss. After jumping ship to Anthropic, which was cofounded by former OpenAI-ers over AI safety and ethics concerns, researcher Todor Markov is now claiming in a… Continue reading Former OpenAI Employee Rages Against Sam Altman: “Person of Low Integrity”
Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname
Apple has floundered in its efforts to bring a convincing AI product to the table — so much so that it’s become the subject of derision even among its own employees, The Information reports. More specifically, it’s the AI and machine-learning group that’s getting the lion’s share of mockery. Known as AI/ML for short, its… Continue reading Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname
Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It
Image by Getty / Futurism As wildly overinvolved parents shell out to give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that putting them on drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have the opposite effect. As the New York Times reports, the scientists behind the Multimodal Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity… Continue reading Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It
Chat Relentlessly Mocks Katy Perry’s “Space Trip”
Tens of thousands of people tuned in to watch a crew of six women, including pop star Katy Perry, and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sánchez, launch to the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere. The 11-minute mission — which the media breathlessly and erroneously described as the “first all-female space flight” —… Continue reading Chat Relentlessly Mocks Katy Perry’s “Space Trip”
Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body
Image by Peter Dazeley via Getty / Futurism A high-end medical practice is offering clients the purported service of scrubbing their blood of microplastics. In an interview with Wired, Clarify Clinics CEO Yael Cohen said that her London facility’s bespoke blood-filtering service — which is otherwise known as apheresis and generally used for plasma donation or… Continue reading Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body