As the United States’ biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, readers remain unimpressed. In a new poll conducted by Poynter and the University of Minnesota, nearly half of the survey’s respondents said they don’t want AI reporting the news to them — and 20 percent say that news publishers shouldn’t be… Continue reading Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News
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Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court
A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of a male avatar to address the judge during a court appearance on his behalf. And as The Register reports, the judge was extremely unimpressed by the stunt, and proceeded to chew him out. Plaintiff Jerome Dewald appeared before the New York State’s Supreme Court on March… Continue reading Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court
Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them
A Trump official is coming after the real menace plaguing America: those gosh-darn freeloaders moping around the endangered species list. On Monday, interior secretary Doug Burgum suggested that the list, which is maintained by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and is a cornerstone of the nation’s conservation efforts, needs cleaning out. We should celebrate… Continue reading Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them
Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies
For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest, and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate every year. But the opposite appears to be the case for the towering tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera), a native of the… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies
Bottles of “Holy Water” Contaminated With Cholera Send European Tourists to the ICU
Image by Getty / Futurism Researchers are warning that bottles of “holy water” from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera. As detailed in a new report published in the journal Eurosurveillance and spotted by Ars Technica, three German and four British tourists developed a nasty case of cholera,… Continue reading Bottles of “Holy Water” Contaminated With Cholera Send European Tourists to the ICU
Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers
Image by Getty / Futurism Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers established in a new study that heavy drinkers — defined as those who have “eight or more alcoholic drinks per week,” so not a particularly… Continue reading Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers
Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch
Get your hands on the latest in holographic tech — or if you want to be pedantic about it, volumetric displays. Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly projecting images, a team of researchers in Spain have created three-dimensional virtual objects that you can physically manipulate, allowing you to directly poke and prod… Continue reading Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch
Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
In Harlan Ellison’s disturbing 1967 short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” a sentient superintelligence named AM has taken over the earth’s resources and exterminated humanity after combining the powers of three US, Soviet, and Chinese supercomputers into one. A small group of survivors has been kept alive for AM’s amusement, forced… Continue reading Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
OpenAI Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Pollute the Internet at Unprecedented Scale
Sam Altman’s grand vision of democratizing artificial intelligence seems, per a new study, to include an ugly asterisk: it’s monetized, at least in part, by spambots filling the web with AI-generated garbage. According to the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, search engine optimization (SEO) scammers operated undetected for months using what company’s experts are calling “AkiraBot,” a… Continue reading OpenAI Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Pollute the Internet at Unprecedented Scale
Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest
Now well into his second term, it’s no secret that Donald Trump wields his emergency powers like Elon Musk uses slurs. That is to say, he does it a lot. So far, Trump’s declared national emergencies to classify drug smugglers as terrorists, the migrant crisis as an invasion, and the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant… Continue reading Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest