Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Does your online grocery order ever feel fishy, like the prices just aren’t adding up? It turns out you’re right to be suspicious — and now we have compelling evidence. New research by a consortium of groups including Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union… Continue reading Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item
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OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images OpenAI has long published research on the potential safety and economic impact of its own technology. Now, Wired reports that the Sam Altman-led company is becoming more “guarded” about publishing research that paints an inconvenient truth: that AI could be bad for the… Continue reading OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth
Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect
Wiktor Szymanowicz / Future Publishing via Getty Images From the US’ eighteenth amendment to Australia’s sin taxes, history shows us that prohibition rarely curbs demand, but instead simply drives it underground. That’s exactly what’s happening in the UK, after the Tavistock gender clinic — the country’s only dedicated gender identity clinic for young people —… Continue reading Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect
Creator of “Wallace and Gromit” Says Heck, He’ll Start Using AI
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images Did Nick Park wake up and put on the wrong trousers this morning? In a recent interview with Radio Times, the creator of the beloved claymation series “Wallace and Gromit” said his animation studio, Aardman, would “embrace” AI — albeit in… Continue reading Creator of “Wallace and Gromit” Says Heck, He’ll Start Using AI
This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law
“My moral belief is that this should be accessible to people,” Kociemba says. Kociemba submitted his fix to Fulu, but discovered that another developer, calling themselves Team Dinosaur, had just submitted a fix slightly before Kociemba did. Still, Fulu paid out the full amount to both, roughly $14,000 apiece. Kociemba was surprised by that, as… Continue reading This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the… Continue reading You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Zevo wants to add robotaxis to its car-share fleet, starting with newcomer Tensor
Driverless cars are no longer restricted to the realm of sci-fi thanks to companies like Waymo deploying commercial robotaxi services in multiple cities. And a number of automakers, big and small, are trying to bring that same level of autonomy to personally-owned vehicles over the next few years. If that happens, what kinds of things… Continue reading Zevo wants to add robotaxis to its car-share fleet, starting with newcomer Tensor
AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’re one of the 28 percent of Americans who’ve shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker’s Inquiry — an international research initiative empowering gig workers to document their industries — revealed… Continue reading AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Disney / Getty Images Famous copyright tyrant Disney is now bending over for the AI industry and signing away its precious intellectual property. On Thursday, the entertainment conglomerate announced a new licensing agreement with OpenAI that will allow it to use Disney’s iconic characters and properties to generate… Continue reading Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth
Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth
For months now, astronomers have been closely watching the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it rips through the solar system at a breakneck velocity. And before it finally leaves us for good, the object — which is broadly believed to be a comet, in spite of other theories that we’ll get to in a minute… Continue reading Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth