Did Elon Musk just admit he is creating a robot army? See for yourselves what he said during an interview with Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Y Combinator’s AI Startup School.
“Is it true that you’re planning a robot army?” Tan asked Musk. [Read More]
Wait...what???
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RFK Jr: "My vision that is every American is wearing a wearable (electronic data collection device) within four years." pic.twitter.com/snrjldK0aZ
On June 18th, while the country was distracted with headlines about Trump and Iran, the U.S. Senate quietly advanced the GENIUS Act - a bill designed to "legitimize" stablecoins, but in reality, it paves the way for a permissioned, surveilled, and tightly controlled digital currency regime. We predicted this. [Read More]
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 1000 times, make me crazy.
A small but growing number of users of artificial intelligence engines like ChatGPT are developing psychotic delusions from their conversations with the services.
The New York Times reported on Friday on the trend, which I have occasionally glimpsed firsthand in interactions on X with heavy AI users. The piece offered the most powerful evidence yet that the engines now have linguistic abilities with the power to exploit vulnerable people in ways we are only beginning to discover. [Read More]
“If you reach Net Zero by 2050, if you do it worldwide, you avoid about a third of a degree of warming. If it’s just Europe and the Anglosphere, it’s closer to a tenth of a degree,” says Dr Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “So you have avoided a tenth of a degree of warming at a cost of probably tens of trillions of dollars. Doesn’t seem like a bargain to me,” he adds. “How far will the population go in saying, we will sacrifice ourselves for a symbolic gesture?” [Read More]
The siren song of technological progress has always promised a brighter future, often accompanied by reassurances that any jobs displaced will be swiftly replaced by new, unforeseen opportunities. From the Luddite rebellions against textile machinery to the fears surrounding automation, history is replete with instances where technological advances were expected to lead to widespread unemployment, only to witness a net increase in job availability. [Read More]