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AI Startup That Raised $81 Million to Detect Wildfires Bamboozled by Clouds, Still Relies on Humans

6 days ago | futurism.com | Joe Wilkins

Where There's SmokeIt's revolutionizing "the wildfire space."/ Artificial Intelligence/ Startups/ Venture Capital/ WildfiresImage by Nav Rahi / AFP via GettyIt's boom time for AI startups. Across the world, enterprising tech types are being rewarded with millions for forcing AI into all kinds ofgadgets, like an autonomous lawnmower, an AI-powered robo-mattress, and even an AI-enabled toilet.
You Can Now Buy a Sample of Ozzy Osbourne's DNA to Clone Him

6 days ago | futurism.com | Joe Wilkins

A kitschy new brand partnership between John "Ozzy" Osbourne and Liquid Death, the canned water brand, is releasing a limited run of cans of iced tea infused with DNA from the Prince of Darkness himself. Sadly, the iced tea is long gone. The cans have all been chugged and crushed by Osbourne himself, leaving "behind trace DNA from his saliva that you can now own," according to Liquid Death's website.
Zuckerberg's Employees Have a Wild New Nickname for Him

6 days ago | futurism.com | Joe Wilkins

Emperor's New Clothes"The whole time this was all one inch underneath."/ Future Society/ Ceos/ Mark Zuckerberg/ MetaImage by Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC via Getty / FuturismHalf a year in, it seems like Mark Zuckerberg's right-wing turn — which came complete with a woo-woo midlife rebrand — is still going strong. Faced with the return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office, Zuckerberg conveniently molted out of his pseudo-progressive skin and into a darling of the manosphere.
As War Descends on Iran, People Have Discovered Some Wild Old Posts on Ayatollah Khamenei's Twitter Account

1 week ago | futurism.com | Joe Wilkins

Back in the days of yore, Twitter capped posts at a paltry 140 characters. That kept tweets short, sweet, and to the point — lending themselves well to off-the-cuff musings. Now, as tragedy mounts in the middle east following Israel's attack on Iran, it's safe to say more eyes are on Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei than ever before.
CEOs Using AI to Terrorize Their Employees

1 week ago | futurism.com | Joe Wilkins

Labor DisciplinedA brutal new cudgel. / Artificial Intelligence/ Automation/ Ceos/ LaborImage by Getty / FuturismAs artificial intelligence becomes the corporate buzzword du jour, executives are finding more and more ways to shoehorn the trendy tech into their everyday business operations. That has a lot of workers anxious about , income inequality, and increased workloads — something c-suite bigwigs are all too happy to take advantage of.
Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions

1 week ago | futurism.com | Victor Tangermann

We're cooked. / Future Society/ Ai Chatbots/ Artificial Intelligence/ ChatgptImage by Getty / FuturismConspiracy theorists are using AI chatbots not only to convince themselves of their harebrained beliefs, but to recruit other users on social media. As independent Australian news site Crikey reports, conspiracy theorists are having extensive conversations with AI chatbots to "prove" their beliefs. Then, they post the transcripts and videos on social media as "proof" to others.
Once You Notice ChatGPT's Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere

1 week ago | futurism.com | Victor Tangermann

It's not written by humans, it's written by AI. It's not useful, it's slop. It's not hard to find, it's everywhere you look. As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge — maybe more so than anything else, that pattern of negating statements typified by "it's not X, it's Y."Once you notice it, you start to see it everywhere.
Scientists Line Up Satellites to Create "Artificial Total Solar Eclipse"

1 week ago | futurism.com | Victor Tangermann

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the two probes, which are part of the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission, positioned themselves in a perfect line 492 feet apart to have one of them perfectly obfuscate the Sun's rays. Impressively, they were able to maintain their position with an accuracy down to the millimeter.
Trump Admin Shut Down Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ Youth

1 week ago | futurism.com | Joe Wilkins

Dial ToneThe number you have dialed has been disconnected. / Future Society/ Donald Trump/ Lbgtq/ PoliticsImage by Getty / FuturismSince 2022, anyone who calls 988 — the US' nation-wide suicide and crisis hotline — has had the option to dial 3 to speak to a counselor trained to help LGBTQ youth. After July 17, however, this specialized extension will no longer exist.
Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon

1 week ago | futurism.com | Victor Tangermann

The Moon may look gray, but up close it's a whole 'nother story. Left on BeadOver half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: a vast number of tiny orange beads. As Universe Today reports, scientists have long proposed that these beads, each smaller than a grain of sand, date back to over three billion years ago, when volcanic eruptions on the now-inert natural satellite were still commonplace.