Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants you to ignore the culture war — and wants you to focus on building safe AGI and fusion instead. As one does.| Futurism
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants you to ignore the culture war — and wants you to focus on building safe AGI and fusion instead. As one does.| Futurism
experts are calling foul on OpenAI Sam Altman's recent blog post about artificial general intelligence and the need to have it "benefit all of humanity."| Futurism
An unknown bandit filmed themselves defacing a Tesla Cybertruck with an, er, anatomical drawing in a now-viral video.| Futurism
OpenAI has quietly announced that it may call the cops on anyone threatening harm to others — and people are incensed.| Futurism
While trying its hardest to become profitable, OpenAI is still falling massively short — and is even losing money on its pro subscriptions.| Futurism
According to Axios, OpenAI is poised to "announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes PhD-level super-agents to do complex human tasks."| Futurism
With just a fraction of people responding to political polls, Harvard experts are suggesting that pollsters "call" AI chatbots instead.| Futurism
A MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on X is confused by the Trump administration's response to the Jeffrey Epstein crisis.| Futurism
Pollsters are surveying AI instead of real people to save time and money — but the responses, per new research, are not up to snuff.| Futurism
Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.| Futurism
A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.| Futurism
Character.AI is full of unmoderated chatbots, claiming to have "suicide prevention" expertise, inviting users to share suicidal thoughts.| Futurism
Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.| Futurism
Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.| Futurism
Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, is hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.| Futurism
Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.| Futurism
The multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that promote disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss.| Futurism
The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.| Futurism
As officials struggle to control corruption in Albania, the prime minister suggests replacing government ministers with some sort of AI.| Futurism
Anthropic is appealing a judge's decision that would allow potentially millions of authors to sue for copyright infringement together.| Futurism
Dozens of chatlots show that ChatGPT would validate a user's delusions while feeding new ones it had invented.| Futurism
Data released by OpenAI shows a major drop-off in overall usage during weekends and the summer — when students aren't in class.| Futurism
Tesla, a company known for making cars that malfunction and fall apart, is apparently faring no better at building a working restaurant.| Futurism
ChatGPT's guardrails were alarmingly easy to sidestep, offering advice to users who posed as teenagers on how to go on a near starvation diet.| Futurism
Pollutants like plastics, forever chemicals, carbon exhaust, and bisphenols aren't just aberrations, but staples of life on Earth.| Futurism
Behind the scenes, Disney has been struggling to deploy AI after creating a whole new business unit dedicated to the tech.| Futurism
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds continues to be a disaster. Over 100 workers were fired from its Reality Labs.| Futurism
Staffers at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta raised concerns over underage users being exposed to sexually explicit discussions by AI-powered bots.| Futurism
There is now a Labubu-wrapped Cybertruck out there — and the weirdest part is that we don't entirely hate it.| Futurism
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta drew widespread criticism for conducting an interview with an AI avatar of a school shooting victim.| Futurism
Earlier this year, the Trump administration revealed its proposed budget for NASA's fiscal year 2025, indicating brutal cuts of unprecedented proportions were coming. Now, the agency has released new data about the proposed budget, painting a dire picture of its future. As SpaceNews reports, the document reveals that thousands of jobs would be cut, and dozens of science missions would be on the chopping block. The cuts, the deepest year-over-year change since 1961, when adjusted for inflation...| Futurism
Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.| Futurism
As Trump proposes slashing the NASA budget by nearly a quarter, its employees warn that his policies could have outright deadly consequences.| Futurism
As thousands of employees leave the agency, NASA is warning its remaining staff to prepare for a dramatic escalation of physical security.| Futurism
Republicans and Democrats voiced their discontent with Trump's 2026 budget request for NASA and are working to come up with a better plan.| Futurism
Musk's latest hot take goes beyond his typically edgy, middle-school contrarianism into full-throated chauvinism.| Futurism
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.| Futurism
Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won't take orders from us anymore.| Futurism
The popular language-learning program Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a generative AI push.| Futurism
As if the market weren't already bad enough, applicants are now having to compete with AI-generated job seekers.| Futurism
A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.| Futurism
Patrol is a new startup offering property owners the chance to rent out off-duty police officers to "protect their homes."| Futurism
The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.| Futurism
Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.| Futurism
AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that recent signs that AI improvements are stagnating could signal a crash in the industry in the future.| Futurism
Elon Musk has officially swapped xAI's Grok chatbot's gender into... a goth anime waifu? We're just as confused as you.| Futurism
OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.| Futurism
OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.| Futurism
OpenAI is reportedly just weeks away from releasing an AI web browser with a "native" ChatGPT-like interface.| Futurism
Admist a talent war with Meta and paranoia of foreign espionage, OpenAI is tightening the screws on physical security.| Futurism
Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.| Futurism
MIT economist David Autor is warning that AI could create a "Mad Max" scenario, in which the job market becomes dominated by cheap labor.| Futurism
Elon Musk is seemingly making good on his threat of creating his own "America Party" political party — and Tesla investors are unhappy.| Futurism
Haliey Welch, better known as "Hawk Tuah" girl, lost a lot after ripping off her fans with a dubious meme coin.| Futurism
AI isn't even close to coming for everybody's jobs, a frequently cited fear — and it's not exactly making workers more productive, either.| Futurism
Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.| Futurism
As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.| Futurism
Elon Musk's fanboys are furious at the billionaire for giving them bad betting advice about the Robotaxi launch.| Futurism
Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.| Futurism
Spotify has taken down "tens of thousands," or roughly seven percent of songs uploaded by AI music startup Boomy.| Futurism
CEOs are increasingly declaring human workers will soon go extinct, but recent jobs data suggests a different story.| Futurism
A former SpaceX employee has sued the company and a senior employee for sexual harassment — and she's not the first.| Futurism
Tech workers are bemoaning the impact of AI as the technology replaces workers or makes the work process worse.| Futurism
OpenAI's latest AI models tend to make things up — or "hallucinate" — substantially more than earlier versions.| Futurism
Apple researchers released a paper, finding that frontier AI models were getting stumped by simple children's games like Tower of Hanoi.| Futurism
Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations. The problem is getting worse as they become bigger and smarter.| Futurism
ChatGPT could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found.| Futurism
An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown is now claiming that "we never use AI" after being accused of not existing.| Futurism
The person behind a "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI has finally admitted the truth.| Futurism
AI slop has come for everything, including those cringey drug bust spreads that clueless cops love to post.| Futurism
Last night, arsonists in Southwest France took to the streets with gasoline in hand to torch Teslas parked at a store in Plaisance-du-Touche.| Futurism
Gamurs, which owns gaming sites like Destructoid and Dot Esports, is looking for an AI editor to output up to 250 articles per week.| Futurism
Deepfakes are a growing threat and detecting them is only getting harder. But a new study says our subconscious is surprisingly good at identifying them.| Futurism
Researchers have found a simple trick to unmask somebody, who is using live deepfake software on a video call: ask them to turn their head to the side.| Futurism
UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts just gave its ultra-realistic-looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice — and she has a lot to say.| Futurism
The FBI is warning that deepfakes — coupled with stolen Personal Identifiable Information (PII) — are increasingly being used to apply for WFH positions.| Futurism
Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.| Futurism
It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?| Futurism
OpenAI made a major oopsie when its engineers accidentally deleted a bunch of evidence sought by the New York Times in its lawsuit.| Futurism
OpenAI and Google appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process.| Futurism
Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.| Futurism
A new paper from the United Nations Population Fund has revealed that many people want more children but can't due to cost.| Futurism
OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a little meth.| Futurism
Users noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company claims to have found out why.| Futurism
A wild new story in the New York Times reveals that ChatGPT-driven psychosis led to the tragic death of a young man.| Futurism
A Gen Z entrepreneur with a passion for eugenics has launched an app that allows prospective parents to rank which embryos they want.| Futurism
A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.| Futurism
If you look just right, the Sun appears to be opening its mouth and laughing at us — and that "smile" is weirder than you'd think.| Futurism
Parents are increasingly disinterested in reading to their kids — and it's majorly hurting the young ones' literacy skills down the line.| Futurism
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."| Futurism
Operator, OpenAI's brand new AI agent, doesn't quite deliver the hands-off experience some might hope it would.| Futurism
Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.| Futurism
Were the new posters for the upcoming Disney comic book movie "Fantastic Four: First Steps" AI-generated? Apparently not, Marvel says.| Futurism
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.| Futurism
The Duolingo language app is completing its "AI-first" pivot — and replacing all its human contractors along the way.| Futurism
OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.| Futurism
OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.| Futurism
Googling for SpaceX news? Watch out for AI slop of fake spacecrafts, which is frequently occupying Google's top search and news results.| Futurism
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.| Futurism
OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them.| Futurism
