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Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI
OpenAI

"From the get-go this is just gross."

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Future Society

Fall behind on your payments, and your car could simply drive itself away.

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."
Neuroscience and Brain

"While silicon-based computers are certainly better with numbers, brains are better at learning."

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.
Developments

He's arguing the pandemic started in a Chinese lab.

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch out, AI bros.

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada took an "absolutely unreal" photo of the northern lights from on board the International Space Station.
Off-World

"Absolutely unreal."

Over the weekend, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took to Twitter to share — seemingly in earnest — a photo of a mythological Mayan elf.
Science & Energy

"If you throw a dead cat on the table, everyone's going to be talking about the dead cat on the table, right?"

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.
Elon Musk

Digging the hole deeper, we see.

The artificial intelligence arms race is barging ahead at full speed — and now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting in on the game.
Meta

How many pivots has Facebook done now?

Sorry, Pixel phone users, but if you wanted to watch this "Alien" clip in 4K HDR, you're outta luck until Google comes up with some answers.
Future Society

Spooky...

Volkswagen's Car-Net service demanded someone fork over $150 before it was willing to track down the owner's stolen car with her two year old inside.
Future Society

Subscribe now to save your kid!

In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.
Artificial Intelligence

"It seems like he doesn't know about the Retweet button."

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for. 
OpenAI

"It looks wrong and ugly, but also very cute."

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.
Google

"I haven't had the opportunity to run experiments with Bing's chatbot yet... but based on the various things that I've seen online, it looks like it might be sentient."

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.
NASA

Turns out Venus is even weirder than we thought!

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence. 
OpenAI

Come on, dude, really?

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.
Developments

New court documents list Holmes as a mother of "two young children."

Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.
OpenAI

"We need transparency."

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

"While reducing emissions is crucial, no level of reduction undertaken now can reverse the warming effect of past and present greenhouse gas emissions."

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Same, Elon. Same.