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Machine Learning

Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work

"If companies use brain-dead metrics to judge people then you need to learn how to f**k them over right back."

By Joe Wilkins

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Medical

Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation

"It's happening almost everywhere."

By Frank Landymore

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Astronomy

Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus

"We identified the phenomena, but for years we couldn't understand it."

By Frank Landymore

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Biology

NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean

Pretty and cool.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients

"All AI scribe systems from the 20 approved vendors showed one or more inaccuracies at the procurement testing phase."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

Behind every AI-obsessed man is a tired but supportive woman.

By Krystle Vermes

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Brain

Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet

Target blasts of magnetic waves could restore the necessary balance to your brain.

By Krystle Vermes

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Studies

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

"The capacity is not absent — it's just obscured."

By Joe Wilkins

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Brain

These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome

Are there finally smart glasses that *aren't* creepy?

By Jon Christian

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Google

Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix

"There was something very programmed about the way I was living."

By Frank Landymore

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Pollution

Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies

Infrasound, which is inaudible, is the new enemy.

By Krystle Vermes

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Environment

Scientists Scan Gruesome Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast, Find Something Bizarre

The Trinity test may have went down in 1945, but scientists are still finding new discoveries at the blast site.

By Krystle Vermes

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows

"Musk loves to be glazed, and this person is the doughnut factory."

By Frank Landymore

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Meta

Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke

“But zooming out, I don’t want to live in a world where humans — employees or otherwise — are exploited for their training data."

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

"Please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Electric Vehicles

Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool

Painful.

By Jon Christian

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Ethics

AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair

"I crawled out of a f**king black hole."

By Joe Wilkins

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Science & Energy

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes

Does anyone know anything?

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

"AI generates the structural conditions historically associated with the onset of political violence."

By Joe Wilkins

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OpenAI

Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him

And he's gone.

By Frank Landymore