Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other tech bigwigs are right to publicly raise alarms about possible doomsday scenarios involving advanced artificial intelligence – even though the technology is currently “not an existential threat” to humanity, billionaire Mark Cuban told The Post. The “Shark TanK” host rejected the idea that Musk, Altman and others have been too extreme with …
Read More »Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’
OpenAI boss Sam Altman is a self-admitted doomsday prepper who once bragged about his stash of guns, gold and other survival goods — long before he and other experts warned AI posed a “risk of extinction” to humanity on par with nuclear weapons and pandemics. In 2016, a profile of Altman in the New Yorker recounted a conversation in which …
Read More »Apple debuts mixed-reality ‘Vision Pro’ headset with whopping $3,499 price tag
Apple on Monday unveiled its long-anticipated mixed-reality headset — with a whopping $3,499 price tag — marking the iPhone maker’s first major product launch in a decade. Dubbed the “Vision Pro,” Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the device as the centerpiece of the tech giant’s annual Worldwide Developers conference event at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. “Vision Pro is a …
Read More »Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink valued at about $5B
Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, which was valued at close to $2 billion in a private fundraising round two years ago, is now worth around $5 billion based on privately executed stock trades described to Reuters by five sources with knowledge of the matter. Some purchases by bullish investors boosted the valuation in recent months, ahead of Neuralink’s May 25 announcement that …
Read More »Student’s alleged attempt to cheat with AI hilariously fails
Better think twice before using ChatGPT to do your homework for you. A student named Arjun was allegedly busted for using the artificial-intelligence technology on his schoolwork. Walnut CEO Roshan Patel posted about the incident on Twitter June 1, along with a photo of the assignment. “My little cousin Arjun got caught using ChatGPT on his 7th grade English homework,” …
Read More »Linda Yaccarino hires exec from NBC to Twitter operations team
Linda Yaccarino took the reins as Twitter’s new CEO earlier than expected on Monday — and hired a former colleague at NBCUniversal as she scrambles to prop up ad revenue that has reportedly plunged 59% this year. Yaccarino took the reins from billionaire Elon Musk as Twitter’s boss about three weeks earlier than expected, and is already building out her …
Read More »Bronx mom uses AI app Replika to build virtual ‘husband’
Eren Kartal seems too good to be true — the blue-eyed heartthrob is ambitious, manicured, loyal, and best of all, he doesn’t come with “baggage.” But here’s the catch: Kartal doesn’t exist. In fact, he’s a virtual boyfriend created with the AI chatbot software Replika. Those willing to drop $300 could have their own build-a-beau, just like Rosanna Ramos, Kartal’s “wife.” …
Read More »Robot dog causes stir in Midtown
This robot dog isn’t into the ruff stuff. Bunny, an 85-pound purebred from Boston Dynamics, hit midtown Manhattan on a visit with her owner Agnieszka Pilat this week — and she came in peace. “I signed a pledge with some other robotics companies that you cannot use them for offensive, only defensive. So, for example, mounting a gun on the …
Read More »European Space Agency’s first-ever Mars livestream interrupted by rain
A European spacecraft’s historic first-of-its-kind livestream from the red planet was constantly interrupted by rain — from Earth. The European Space Agency broadcast the livestream of stunning views of Earth’s next-door neighbor from the Mars Express to commemorate the spacecraft’s 20th anniversary. It was launched by a Russian rocket in Kazakhstan in 2003. It took about 17 minutes for each …
Read More »AI blamed for 3,900 people losing their jobs in May: report
Nearly 4,000 Americans lost their jobs in May because they were replaced by artificial intelligence — the first time that AI has been blamed for workers being unemployed, according to a report. More than 80,000 jobs were cut in May, according to the analytics firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, which cited market and economic conditions as well as mergers and …
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