Getty / Futurism Researchers have found that the carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into images and videos is far worse than we previously thought. As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the… Continue reading Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage
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Tesla’s Robotaxi Plans Are So Jumbled That Officials Are Begging It To Clarify What the Heck It’s Actually Doing
Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images. When Elon Musk boasted in July that he was “getting the regulatory permission” to bring Tesla’s Robotaxi service to the San Francisco Bay Area, this was apparently news to regulators. As Reuters reports, both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration… Continue reading Tesla’s Robotaxi Plans Are So Jumbled That Officials Are Begging It To Clarify What the Heck It’s Actually Doing
Putting Mirrors on Traffic Cones Causes Self-Driving Cars to Melt Down, Confounding Lidar
Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty Images Researchers have engineered the ultimate nemesis of self-driving cars: mirror-adorned traffic cones. In a series of tests highlighted by The Register, a team from France and Germany showed that their optical sleight of hand could easily dupe lidar-equipped autonomous cars into not recognizing obstacles… Continue reading Putting Mirrors on Traffic Cones Causes Self-Driving Cars to Melt Down, Confounding Lidar
Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims
Patrick Tehan/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by an “approximately 8,000-pound counterbalance weight” attached to a robotic arm at the company’s plant in Fremont, California. According to a civil complaint obtained by The Independent, engineer Peter Hinterdobler was helping a colleague… Continue reading Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims
Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back
Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty Images Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers — a full 30 percent of its workforce — in a pivot to AI, months after the CEO exhorted workers to use AI to stay relevant. It’s a pretty dickish move by CEO Micha Kaufman,… Continue reading Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back
New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off
Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They’re being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck — all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt to the oh-so-cruel physical world around them. In the latest instance of a robot being brutalized, a video… Continue reading New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off
Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
Getty / Futurism For over two months, astronomers have been closely following an interstellar object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — as it screams through the solar system at a breakneck speed. The unusual visitor was only the third object from beyond the solar system ever detected, following ‘Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov in… Continue reading Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car
Chinese EV maker BYD’s YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car. The sleek vehicle reached a white-knuckled 308.4 mph at the ATP Papenburg oval track in Germany, as Car and Driver reports, blowing past the previous record of 304.8 mph, which was set by the Bugatti Chiron… Continue reading Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car
Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty Images While many working people are reasonably worried about AI taking their jobs and leaving them on the street, another consequence of the AI revolution is filling seats in mental health facilities. The mass adoption of large language model (LLM) chatbots is resulting in large numbers… Continue reading Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users
DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots
Image via Getty / Futurism Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of present-day microbots by US national security magazine The National Interest breaks down the many machines currently in development by the US military… Continue reading DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots