Category: Tech News

In a review as humorous as it was dystopian, The Verge‘s Victoria Song described what it was like to wear Bee, an inexpensive new AI wearable pin, for a month — and how it sometimes spat out “fanfiction” about her life as it listened to everything she said and did. Billed as an AI “memory” device… Continue reading New AI Gadget Records Your Entire Life and Then Lies to You About What Happened

Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming more or less simultaneously — and scientists still don’t know how or why. Known to archaeologists and anthropologists as the Neolithic Revolution, the discovery of this historical head-scratcher is by no means new. Nevertheless, it… Continue reading The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of People With Zero Contact With One Another

OpenAI says the US will lose the AI race if it’s unable to scrape copyrighted materials — and its favorite bogeyman, China, will take the crown instead. As Ars Technica reports, the Sam Altman-led company is begging president Donald Trump to instate federal regulations defining “fair use,” the thorny standard at the heart of the copyright lawsuits… Continue reading OpenAI Says It’s “Over” If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

Image by Getty / Futurism No, it’s not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be. As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-measure metric that “intelligence” is supposed to… Continue reading Human Intelligence Sharply Declining