Read the latest articles from Futurism (Page 371)

German tabloid Die Aktuelle is advertising "the first interview" with F1 legend Michael Schumacher, despite the fact that it was entirely AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

"What an incredibly cruel thing to do to his family, absolute scumbag behavior."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.
Moon

They even put down sand and boulders.

By Victor Tangermann

In a bombastic interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk made a bold claim about Google co-founder Larry Page that, unfortunately, is kind of believable.
Google

"And, um, then he called me a speciesist."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Major record label Universal Music Group has forced a song that uses the AI-generated vocals of Drake and The Weeknd to be taken offline.
Artificial Intelligence

AI's most fearsome opponent yet? The lawyer-powered music industry.

By Victor Tangermann

In a quiet new rule change, Twitter has rolled back protections for trans users amid an international anti-trans movement on both sides of the pond.
Future Society

The decline of Twitter continues.

By Noor Al-Sibai

German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black and white portrait, is now refusing the award after admitting the image was generated using an AI image generator, The Guardian reports.
Artificial Intelligence

"AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award."

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned audiences in a 60 Minutes interview on CBS that AI will drastically disrupt society as we know it.
Google

"It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly... So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely."

By Frank Landymore

EV maker Polestar just showed off its fourth passenger vehicle called the Polestar 4, a compact SUV that literally has no rear windshield.
Advanced Transport

"It creates a cocoon."

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese astronomer spotted green streaks of light passing over a cloudy sky, which, as it turns out, were shot out by NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.
NASA

It's the first time anybody's caught them on camera from the ground.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is sending users money in a class action lawsuit settlement — and if you used the site at any point in the last 15 years, you can get some, too.
Future Society

Here's how to get in on the action.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hawaii's Big Island was treated to a light show of space lasers — but luckily, it wasn't aliens that put on the stunning spectacle.
Off-World

This is lit.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Each iteration of OpenAI's GPT has been way bigger than the last. But the era of simply scaling up AIs may already be at an end, according to Sam Altman.
OpenAI

"We are not here to jerk ourselves off about parameter count."

By Frank Landymore

Ever wanted to know what the Moon smells like? According to NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it smells like spent gunpowder.
Moon

It's a very specific scent.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier today, SpaceX loaded its gigantic, 400-foot Starship rocket stack with propellant — only to scrub its first-ever orbital launch attempt.
Starship

Will Elon try again on 4/20?

By Victor Tangermann

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so permanent and huge that living beings are migrating from thousands of miles away to get in on the plastic action.
Science & Energy

Life finds a way.

By Noor Al-Sibai

We can now, apparently, add the CEO of the Google-owned DeepMind to the list of machine learning researchers who think AI might gain self-awareness. 
Google

"I think there's a possibility..."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another NFT collector just got caught up in a scam, losing millions of dollars worth of crypto in the process.
Cryptocurrency

"Please learn any lessons possible from this."

By Victor Tangermann

Like a human possessed, an AI made by Google appears to know things it wasn't trained to learn — and yeah, it's freaking us out. 
Google

"There is an aspect of this which we call — all of us in the field call it as a 'black box.'"

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of Stanford students have come up with a pair of smart glasses that can display the output of OpenAI's GPT-4 chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

"Say goodbye to awkward dates and job interviews."

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI is warning about "juice jacking" occurring from public USB charging ports, but luckily, someone's come up with a literal prophylactic.
Future Society

No glove, no love.

By Noor Al-Sibai