After vowing to create a “maximum truth-seeking” AI, Elon Musk appears to now be sacking the people who built it for him. Slack screenshots leaked to Business Insider show that the accounts of at least nine high-level employees with the data annotation team at xAI, Musk’s OpenAI competitor, were deactivated over the weekend, in what… Continue reading Elon Musk Appears to Now Be Firing the People Behind Grok
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Boring Company Pauses Work After Worker Gets Crushed
Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging firm The Boring Company’s operations in Las Vegas were suspended after a worker sustained a “crushing injury.” As local fire department and OSHA spokespeople told Fortune, authorities received a call about an “industrial/machinery incident” on Wednesday evening. The injured worker had to be lifted out of the tunnel using an on-site crane… Continue reading Boring Company Pauses Work After Worker Gets Crushed
It Turns Out That Google’s AI Is Being Trained by an Army of Poorly Treated Human Grunts
Google is depending on thousands of contractors to train the AI behind its flagship chatbot Gemini. As The Guardian reports, many of these “AI raters,” tasked with instructing the model and correcting its many mistakes, are facing poor working conditions and are often exposed to extremely disturbing content. It’s yet again a worrying reminder that… Continue reading It Turns Out That Google’s AI Is Being Trained by an Army of Poorly Treated Human Grunts
The Inventor of Ozempic Is Suddenly Sacking Huge Numbers of Employees
Image by Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty / Futurism Novo Nordisk, the 102-year-old Danish drugmaker behind the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is laying off thousands of workers as it seeks to recoup some of the revenue it’s lost to competitors amid the GLP-1 boom. In a press release,… Continue reading The Inventor of Ozempic Is Suddenly Sacking Huge Numbers of Employees
Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered
In the early morning hours of Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that an OpenAI whistleblower named Suchir Balaji, who passed away last year, was actually killed. “He was murdered,” Musk posted, in reference to Balaji’s death. The late 26-year-old software engineer had gone to the New York Times months before his passing, decrying what… Continue reading Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered
Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments
Countless users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of “AI psychosis” that’s alarming mental health professionals. Some even say the tech could give birth to entirely new categories of mental disorders. The grim trend has already been linked to several deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, which has… Continue reading Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments
RFK Junior Says Mass Shootings Are Being Caused by Video Games
Image by Andrew Harnik / Getty / Futurism America’s health crank in chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr is promising to unearth the root cause of the deadly mass shootings gripping our country. His absurd conclusion? Video games, a long-debunked scapegoat for public violence in America. During a press briefing to discuss his “Make America Healthy… Continue reading RFK Junior Says Mass Shootings Are Being Caused by Video Games
New AI Necklace Listens Constantly and Uses All That Data to Complain About You
A new pendant-shaped wearable that continuously records everything you do isn’t just an enormous privacy violation in the making — it’s also a jerk that loves to mouth off. The $129 wearable, with the uninspired name “Friend,” is the brainchild of 22-year-old entrepreneur Avi Schiffmann, who sought to end a growing loneliness epidemic by providing his… Continue reading New AI Necklace Listens Constantly and Uses All That Data to Complain About You
The Mysterious Object Cruising Toward Mars Is Doing Something Very Peculiar
A mysterious object from interstellar space is screaming through our solar system right now, and is expected to rip past Mars and Jupiter over the coming months before exiting back into the void between stars. Astronomers have been fascinated by the unusual visitor, dubbed 3I/ATLAS after its discovery in July, and have broadly come to… Continue reading The Mysterious Object Cruising Toward Mars Is Doing Something Very Peculiar
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Spread Ludicrous Misinformation After Charlie Kirk’s Shooting, Saying Kirk Survived and Video Was Fake
Popular right wing influencer Charlie Kirk was killed in a shooting in Utah yesterday, rocking the nation and spurring debate over the role of divisive rhetoric in political violence. As is often the case in breaking news about public massacres, misinformation spread quickly. And fanning the flames this time was Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot, which is now… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Grok AI Spread Ludicrous Misinformation After Charlie Kirk’s Shooting, Saying Kirk Survived and Video Was Fake