Archive: October 2021

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images From the guy who bragged that he chats with “real Nazis” and mused about how legalizing war crimes would be good for his bottom line comes another zinger that will have you yearn for the days when CEOs acted more like cautious bureaucrats than ‘roided out pro wrestlers. In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine t

On November 12, the city of Koka, Shiga Prefecture, announced that the server of its audio broadcast system had been attacked by ransomware, causing the outdoor loudspeakers and audio broadcast terminals to become inoperable. Emergency information disseminated through these devices has also been halted, and emergency information will now be communicated through the city's official LINE, television, and radio. It is also investigating the possibility that t

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"Who said just now that they plan to plant flowers?" For humans, recalling the previous conversation and context often allows them to answer. However, for an AI that has watched hours of videos, this question is not straightforward: it may have found flowers, found several names, and found discussions about planting, yet still cannot determine who proposed the plan. Clues are found, but relationships are not remembered. This highlights a key issue for long

Getty / Futurism Users of Microsoft’s Windows have grown frustrated with the company’s insistence on stuffing its Copilot AI chatbot into almost every corner of the widely-used operating system, earning it the pejorative nickname of “Microslop.” That’s despite Microsoft admitting in its own Copilot terms of service that the AI shouldn’t be relied upon for virtually any important work. “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the lengthy document reads

Getty / Futurism Once you familiarize yourself with the characteristics of ChatGPT’s writing, it becomes impossible to miss. The internet has been flooded with AI-generated text that often features distinctive language patterns, from liberal use of em dashes and repetitive sentence structures to specific turns of phrase and tone. The trend has become so ubiquitous that experts are now warning that it could even influence the way we speak in real life. As h

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft Corp. once again surpassed $4 trillion in valuation, joining artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia in the exclusive club that also briefly included Apple on Tuesday. The sky-high valuations highlight the investor frenzy around artificial intelligence. Earlier in the day, OpenAI said it has reorganized its ownership structure and converted its business into a public benefit corporation after two crucial regulat

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Images In most privately-owned venues today, you probably take it for granted that AI-integrated cameras are tracking your every move. From casinos to concert halls to sports arenas, the degree of public surveillance we deal with is breathtaking. For the most part, the consequences of this kind of private surveillance — severe though they may be — are rarely felt at the individual

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more Three former employees dismissed from OpenAI are pressuring the company to preserve the ability to monitor how increasingly advanced AI systems think. In a letter sent to the board of directors and to the company's security committees, they also advocated for the participation of external auditors in monitoring technology risks.The researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United States is at an all time high. That’s a grim milestone for any country, let alone one as technically rich as the US — and it’s leading to a massive rise in late payments and credit delinquency. But as more and more lenders come looking for their payments, it’s increasingly AI — rath

UK regulator threatens universities with sanctions unless they adopt AI-proof exam formats View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 11, 2026 AI makes it "close to impossible" to fairly grade student coursework, England's higher-education regulator the Office for Students (OfS) says. The agency is urging universities to bring back traditional exams and in-person presentations, the Guardian reports. A joint OfS and Advance HE survey of more than

Stefan Puchner / picture alliance via Getty Images In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the revelation that the Pentagon had used top large language models to identify targets for annihilation via air strikes. Those targets included civilian buildings like Tehran’s Azadi Sport Complex, a historic stadium which once hosted World Cup matches, and the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, in a bombing that killed at

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found African lions produce not one, but two distinct types of roars—a discovery set to transform wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts. Researchers at the University of Exeter have identified a previously unclassified "intermediary roar" alongside the famous full-throated roar. The study, published in Ecology and Evolution, used artificial intelligence to automatically differentiate between lion roa

Hey! You got ads in my AI responses! On Monday, OpenAI announced that it plans to start expanding the types of advertisements that appear in ChatGPT alongside the model’s outputs. The new “visual ad format,” as the company calls it, will include images that are meant to help “people imagine how products and services could fit into their lives.” In an example of the format, OpenAI showed a carousel-style ad slot with images of different types of groceries t

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Shutterstock / Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images / Futurism Derek Chadwick, the cofounder of the new gay dating app Goose, has suddenly quit the company after the platform was exposed for tricking men into signing up using fake, AI generated influencers, the magazine Out reports. Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “Some personal news. As of last week, I’ve step

Flamengo is modernizing its data infrastructure in partnership with BlueShift and Google Cloud. The project organizes match and player information to expand analytics capabilities and support the coaching staff’s decisions.The initiative uses an architecture that facilitates the processing of statistics and prepares the club to incorporate artificial intelligence applications in the future. The centralized platform provides strategic reports to assist the

Is it a conspiracy? For months, YouTubers have been quietly griping that something looked off in their recent video uploads. Following a deeper analysis by a popular music channel, Google has now confirmed that it has been testing a feature that uses AI to artificially enhance videos. The company claims this is part of its effort to “provide the best video quality,” but it’s odd that it began doing so without notifying creators or offering any way to opt o

Shutterstock / Futurism A Malaysian man is facing up to three years in a Singaporean prison — after an ill-conceived text containing AI slop shut down the city-state’s largest reservoir for days. According to the BBC, the bizarre incident started when the 30-year-old Ye Lin sent his colleague a photo of a saltwater crocodile — entirely generated by Google Gemini — lurking in the Pandan Reservoir, a 435-acre basin in Singapore’s western residential district