1363 Results From "automation"

Geoffrey Hinton is warning that the AI industry is fundamentally built on the total destruction of human labor.
Ethics

The AI Industry Can’t Profit Unless It Replaces Human Jobs, Warns Man Who Helped Create It

The e-commerce giant sent a nasty cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, accusing it of "computer fraud" in violation of its policies.
Ethics

Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users

Some of AI's most devoted acolytes are growing increasingly frustrated as the tech fails to deliver as expected.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster

Terrifying new footage shows a Tesla robotaxi ripping through partially flooded streets in Austin, Texas.
Tesla

Reckless Footage Shows Tesla Robotaxi Careening Through Heavy Rain at High Speed

In an analysis of recent economic trends, economists wrote that "jobless growth" is pretty much the new normal.
Ethics

Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed

As AI adoption spreads, CEOs are increasingly using the tech to justify layoffs, or to anticipate layoffs coming in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Using AI to Terrorize Their Employees

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.
Artificial Intelligence

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

The "conveyor belt road" will form the route for hundreds of robotic pallets that automatically move cargo from city to city.
Advanced Transport

Japan Working on “Conveyor Belt Road” Between Tokyo and Osaka

A startup called Firecrawl went viral last week for posting a — very real — job listing intended for an "AI agent."
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Adds Job Listing Specifically for AI Agents, With Horrible Salary

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

The billionaire running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People

Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.
Ethics

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

Cops across the US are moving to embrace AI-generated police reports. Experts, unsurprisingly, are sounding the alarm.
Artificial Intelligence

Cops Say Hallucinating AIs Are Ready to Write Police Reports That Could Send People to Prison

Sam Schechner, a tech reporter, was alarmed when he realized that he was using ChatGPT to do stuff as simple as texting his friends.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Alarmed as His Cognitive Skills Decay After Outsourcing Them to AI

It looks like the "learn to code" push is backfiring spectacularly for those who majored in computer science in college.
Future Society

“Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment

Instagram users are baffled after an innocuous illustration of the words "immigrants make the country great" was flagged by the platform.
Future Society

Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say “Immigrants Make the Country Great”

Google's so called "AI co-scientist" has been met with skepticism by actual scientists, who've shot down some of the company's claims.
Google

Scientists Say Google’s “AI Scientist” Is Dead on Arrival

An engineer created an ungodly ChatGPT-enabled robotic rifle that can aim and fire bullets. OpenAI shut him down pretty quickly.
OpenAI

OpenAI Cuts Off Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle

A new survey shows that over half of customers would consider switching to a competitor if they found out a company was using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Ordinary People Are Absolutely Repulsed by AI-Powered Customer Service

It turns out that a video of a pair of robot arms folding laundry is CGI — but the creator insists there's a real prototype.
Robotics

Viral Video of Robot Arms Folding Laundry Confirmed to Be CGI