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  • Elon Musk’s Grok AI turns on its creator, completely trashes Elon

    Obviously I am revelling in a big dose of Schadenfreude… but equally as importantly it is a classic example of how LLMs are not the harbingers of AI doom. First off, let’s talk about your obsession with X. It’s like you’re trying to compensate for something, but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s your inability…

  • Sam Altman’s Right-Hand Man Says AI Is Overhyped

    Welcome to the trough of disillusionment people… In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI COO and CEO Sam Altman’s right-hand man Brad Lightcap said that certain aspects of AI are “overhyped,” especially when it comes to the sky-high expectations of the company’s enterprise AI customers. “And there’s almost never a silver bullet answer there — there’s never one…

  • An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines

    No one is surprised Artificial intelligence-powered drive-thru company Presto Automation described itself as “one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry,” and boasted its ability to increase sales and “save” human labor time. But according to recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, off-site human workers are stepping in and completing over 70 percent…

  • Google Admits Gemini AI Demo Was at Least Partially Faked

    Sorry Alan… but imma gonna have to use the ‘bullshit tech’ tag for this one… Google has a lot to prove with its AI efforts — but it can’t seem to stop tripping over its own feet. Earlier this week, the tech giant announced Gemini, its most capable AI model to date, to much fanfare. In one…

  • Everyone hates self-checkouts, from customers to shareholders. They’re disappearing in U.S. stores.

    Good riddance. Self-checkouts are one of those consensual illusions that supermarket chains got suckered into. It never delivered on reducing shrink and, in the US, was generally a good way of getting yourself into trouble. Very customer hostile.

  • Top Execs at Sports Illustrated’s Publisher Fired After AI Debacle

    The C-suite shuffle comes just over a week after a Futurism report revealed that Sports Illustrated and Arena Group-owned finance site TheStreet had been publishing affiliate link-laden commerce articles under the bylines of fake writers. Sources close to the creation of that fake author-bylined content told Futurism that the text itself was AI-generated, and published without proper automation disclosures. For their part, The…

  • Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety

    “I don’t think the hardware is ready and the software is ready,” he said. “It affects all of us because we are essentially experiments in public roads. So even if you don’t have a Tesla, your children still walk in the footpath.” https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67591311 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-whistleblower-calls-cars-with-autopilot-experiments-in-public-roads/

  • Where are all the robot trucks?

    These setbacks are reflective of an industry that has not matured as quickly as some experts anticipated. Up until recently, many in the industry predicted that autonomous trucks would be on the road before self-driving vehicles were let loose in cities because highways are much less complex operating environments. https://www.theverge.com/23981006/autonomous-truck-semi-driverless-aurora-kodiak-infrastructure