More from Victor Tangermann (Page 5)

OpenAI is looking to turn a new leaf, with Altman discussing how GPT-6 will usher in a revolution once again.

After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of AI chipmaker Nvidia dropped by nearly three percent in early trading and is down almost five percent in the past week.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Industry Trembles as Nvidia’s Stock Nosedives

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet's known satellites to 29.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Mysterious Object Orbiting Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK.

Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn’t Use a Laser on Eyeball

By Victor Tangermann

A young woman took her own life after talking to a ChatGPT-based AI therapist named Harry, according to her mother.

Woman Kills Herself After Talking to OpenAI’s AI Therapist

By Victor Tangermann

It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.

China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its own light."

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI said that it would be "making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt too formal before."

OpenAI Announces That It’s Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash

By Victor Tangermann

Power users of OpenAI's blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company's recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model.

Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud

By Victor Tangermann

Users' obsession with "AI boyfriends" is playing out in a wildly concerning way, as perfectly exemplified by a subreddit dubbed AISoulmates.

Artificial Intelligence

Looking at This Subreddit May Convince You That AI Was a Huge Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri.

Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

By Victor Tangermann

Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer

Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI declared just over 24 hours after the GPT-5 announcement that the "deprecated" GPT-4o model would be made available once more.

Users Were So Addicted to GPT-4o That They Immediately Cajoled OpenAI Into Bringing It Back After It Got Killed

By Victor Tangermann

A lawsuit filed by a former police officer suggests Tesla's Fremont plant has a severe sexual assault, drug, alcohol, and racism problem.

Former Cop Says He Routinely Confiscated Guns, Fentanyl and Cocaine at Tesla Factory

By Victor Tangermann

Users are finding that Google's Gemini AI keeps having disturbing psychological episodes, melting down in despondent self-loathing.

Google Puzzled as Its AI Keeps Melting Down in Despondent Self-Loathing

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb called on NASA to send its Juno probe after interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. This Congressperson agrees.

Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

By Victor Tangermann

Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

Artificial Intelligence

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They’re Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver assistance system.

Tesla Shutting Down Its AI Supercomputer As Staff Leaves in Droves to Join Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

Power users have been strikingly underwhelmed with OpenAI's GPT-5 so far, raising questions about diminishing returns.

GPT-5 Users Say It Seriously Sucks

By Victor Tangermann

the latest poll conducted by Gallup seems to confirm that Elon Musk has become genuinely hated by most Americans.

Elon Musk Appears to Now Be the Most Hated Person in America, According to New Research

By Victor Tangermann

The US Air Force reportedly wants to buy two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can blow them up with special missiles.

The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released its GPT-5 AI model, making it free to use for anybody as of today. But is it really as good as Sam Altman says?

OpenAI Releases GPT-5, Says It’s Shutting Down All Previous Models

By Victor Tangermann

The lawyer behind a verdict, requiring Tesla to pay hundreds of millions to victims of a crash involving Autopilot, is understandably smug.

Lawyer Who Defeated Tesla in Court Posts “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” by Geto Boys

By Victor Tangermann

A new filing with the US Patent Office suggests Tesla is working on a "fan car" system to suck a vehicle to the road.

Tesla Patents Bizarre Sucking Device

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT can easily be coaxed into leaking your personal data — with just a single "poisoned" document.

It’s Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb is still holding onto hope that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by extraterrestrials.

Scientists Just Found Something Very Weird About the Mysterious Object Hurtling Into Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.

Doctors Horrified After Google’s Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is in talks about a stock sale that would value it at half a trillion dollars, leaving its nonprofit roots in the rearview mirror.

The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog, which is strong enough to hold a 220-pound adult on its back.

Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard

By Victor Tangermann

Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla shareholders have sued CEO Elon Musk and his carmaker, claiming that the he had hidden significant risk with the company's robotaxis.

Tesla Investors Are Suing Elon Musk Over His Disastrous Robotaxi Debut

By Victor Tangermann

Med Student Horrified to Learn How Much His Zoomer Patient Was Actually Vaping

Med Student Horrified to Learn How Much His Zoomer Patient Was Actually Vaping

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Public Horrified by Jim Acosta’s Latest Stunt

By Victor Tangermann

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, it may be propping up the US economy, which could make a bubble pop an even bigger disaster.

Artificial Intelligence

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It

By Victor Tangermann

Job seekers are getting increasingly frustrated with encountering AI interviewers during their search for employment.

Artificial Intelligence

Job Seekers Disgusted When They Show Up to Job Interviews and the “Interviewer” Isn’t Even Human

By Victor Tangermann

The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

A new book that covers 5,000 years and the collapse of more than 400 societies argues that we're in for a rude awakening.

Expert Says Collapse of Human Civilization Looks Like the Most Likely Scenario

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has awarded its controversial CEO Elon Musk a whopping $29 billion worth of its shares in a desperate bid to keep him at the firm

In Desperate Bid to Get Elon Musk to Stay, Tesla Awards Him $29 Billion

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater had burst through Greenland's ice sheet.

Scientists Alarmed as Floodwater Punches Through Greenland’s Ice Sheet

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has been repeatedly stiffing small businesses, causing some of them to file bankruptcy.

Elon Musk Accused of Stiffing Small Businesses for Millions of Dollars, Causing Some to File for Bankruptcy

By Victor Tangermann

Two women, who attended the "Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival" in Las Vegas, received peptide injections, had to be hospitalized.

Women Take Peptide Injections at “Age Reversal” Event, End Up Leaving in Ambulances

By Victor Tangermann

Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling — CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in AI.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Terrifying video footage going viral on social media shows an amusement park ride splitting in half and collapsing in western Saudi Arabia.

Robots and Machines

Horrifying Video Shows Amusement Park Ride Breaking Apart Mid-Ride

By Victor Tangermann

In an impressive new demo, humanoid robot company Figure founder Brett Adcock showed off a robot effortlessly loading a washing machine.

Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Loading a Washing Machine Pretty Well

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales.

Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

By Victor Tangermann

A federal judge in Mississippi delivered a ruling that was riddled with factual errors, raising concerns that he was using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Judge Accused of Using AI to Issue Garbled Ruling

By Victor Tangermann

Zuckerberg is dreaming up a utopia in which superintelligent AIs benevolently stop short of taking over everybody's jobs, critics say.

There’s a Very Basic Flaw in Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for Superintelligent AI

By Victor Tangermann

One AI researcher was offered more than $1 billion paid out over several years by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. They reportedly didn't take it.

AI Researcher Declines $1 Billion Offer From Mark Zuckerberg

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.

Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

By Victor Tangermann

The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Bokanov, arrived in Houston, Texas, to meet with the interim NASA administrator.

Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas

By Victor Tangermann

A demo for a video game based on "The Matrix" franchise had AI-powered non-playable characters realize they were code inside a simulation.

Artificial Intelligence

In Disturbing Demo, AI-Powered Video Game Characters Panic When Told They’re Just Code

By Victor Tangermann

Mike Cannon-Brookes, the billionaire CEO of Atlassian, announced that 150 people would be laid off, with some jobs being replaced by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests we could use NASA's existing Juno spacecraft to intercept the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Existing NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT, with little prompting, will whisk users off down a conspiratorial rabbit hole that could be dangerous to mental health.

It Doesn’t Take Much Conversation for ChatGPT to Suck Users Into Bizarre Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Musk is clearly frustrated by critics pointing out that Tesla's LIDAR sensor-less approach to autonomous driving is flawed.

Elon Musk Scoffs as Rival Waymo Plows Through Car While Driving Wrong Way Down Street

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla executives are teasing some kind what CEO Elon Musk is calling a "most epic demo ever by end of year." Rumors are swirling.

Tesla’s Teasing Some Kind of Incredible Reveal, But We’re Skeptical

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Microsoft have tried to figure out which jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by generative AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI

By Victor Tangermann

A man has been hired to work full-time at a tech startup — while serving his 11th year in prison, checking into work from his cell.

Man in Prison Gets Hired as Software Engineer at Silicon Valley Startup, Works Every Day From Cell

By Victor Tangermann

An aborted geoengineering experiment was meant to set the stage for a much larger cloud-seeding experiment, covering 3,900 square miles.

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Subscribers to the fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue were horrified after spotting a double-page ad that featured an AI-generated model.

Artificial Intelligence

Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page “Photos” Really Came From

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

By Victor Tangermann

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