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Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Parents of children who died by suicide following extensive interactions with AI chatbots are testifying this… Continue reading Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital

You work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and you’re sitting on two pounds of seized methamphetamines that you need to get rid of. So what do you do? Burn it all in a pet shelter smack-dab in the middle of town, of course. It sounds beyond parody, but these are the events that played… Continue reading FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital

Tesla Engineer Quits, Roasts Elon Musk in Spectacular Fashion

After a tenure of eight years, a Tesla engineer has quit the company — and directed a seething missive toward his boss, Elon Musk. “I do need to address the elephant in the room: the main reason I’m leaving is that I think Elon has dealt huge damage to Tesla’s mission (and to the health… Continue reading Tesla Engineer Quits, Roasts Elon Musk in Spectacular Fashion

Commercial Airplanes Are Dosing Passengers With Neurotoxic Gases

Image by Getty / Futurism An increasing number of commercial airline passengers and flight attendants are being exposed to dangerous fumes while in the air, at times resulting in traumatic brain injuries that closely resemble the deadly concussions experienced by professional football players. As the Wall Street Journal reports, fume incidents have led to emergency… Continue reading Commercial Airplanes Are Dosing Passengers With Neurotoxic Gases

Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

In a paper published earlier this month, OpenAI researchers said they’d found the reason why even the most powerful AI models still suffer from rampant “hallucinations,” in which products like ChatGPT confidently make assertions that are factually false. They found that the way we evaluate the output of large language models, like the ones driving ChatGPT,… Continue reading Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

Scientists Tested What’s Really in “Psilocybin” Chocolate and Found Something Alarming

Image by Getty / Futurism If you’re a coward and don’t want to munch on awful-tasting shrooms to go on a psychedelic odyssey, you can buy delicious edibles infused with their active ingredient instead: psilocybin. But maybe you shouldn’t, because new research suggests that you might be getting ripped off taking these — or even putting… Continue reading Scientists Tested What’s Really in “Psilocybin” Chocolate and Found Something Alarming

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. It’s only the latter, however, that’s anticipated to one day be a multitrillion dollar market, with big firms like Tesla leading the charge. In March, Tesla CEO Elon Musk boasted that… Continue reading When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

In his 1963 scifi story “The Invincible,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the microscopic beings were powerless alone, but together they could form cooperative swarms to gather energy, reproduce, and ultimately defend their territory from predators with… Continue reading Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

OpenAI claims to have figured out what’s driving “hallucinations,” or AI models’ strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It’s a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting worse as AI models get more capable. As… Continue reading OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake