Noor Al-Sibai
Futurism
New York, NY, United States
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OpenAI's GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone's Ever Taken
OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model called GPT-4 — and we're slightly freaked. → Read More
CEO: Matthew McConaughey's Huge Paycheck Has Nothing to Do With Layoffs, Peasants
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs. → Read More
High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work
In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans. → Read More
Researchers Say They've Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab
A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole. → Read More
Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places
Bitcoin rose nearly 20 percent over the last 24 hours, with the price currently hovering around $24,000 after regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank. → Read More
Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans
Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it. → Read More
Chuck E. Cheese Is Weirdly Defensive About Its Floppy Disk-Powered Robots
The brain geniuses at Chuck E. Cheese still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent robots — and they wouldn't have it any other way. → Read More
A Shocking Percentage of High School Graduates Are Absolutely Refusing to Go to College
College admissions are at an all-time low in the wake of COVID-19 because it seems, would-be students don't think it's worth the money anymore. → Read More
Congressman Claims the US Government Has "Reverse-Engineered" Alien Tech from UFOs
According to one conspiracy-minded Congressional Republican, there's a chance that his employer is reverse-engineering alien technology salvaged from UFOs. → Read More
Noam Chomsky: AI Isn't Coming For Us All, You Idiots
Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today. → Read More
We're Totally OK With This 48,500 Year Old "Zombie" Virus Being Resurrected
Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient "zombie" viruses found in permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change's freakiest eventualities. → Read More
Legal Expert Proposes "Cognitive Liberty" to Avoid Corporate Brain Spying
We're closer than ever to a dystopian future where corporations can read our thoughts without our permission using brain-computer interfaces. → Read More
Elon Musk Finally Relents and Apologizes for Mocking Disabled Twitter Ex-Employee
After dragging an ex-Twitter employee, Elon Musk has apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson after disparaging him so publicly. → Read More
NASA Says It'll Be Launching Crewed Moon Mission Around Thanksgiving 2024
NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it. → Read More
Scientists Investigated Why Clowns Are So Terrifying and [Sinister Circus Music Plays]
Scientists have quantified why people are afraid of clowns — and their findings kind of take the air out of this common fear. → Read More
Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the "Conscious" AIs of the Future
If or when AIs become conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great. → Read More
HelloFresh Halting Thai Coconut Milk Sales Over Monkey Labor Allegations
After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal kit company will no longer source from there. → Read More
Jeff Bezos' Space Tourism Craft Has Been Grounded for Six Months Over Escape Malfunction
All's not well at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, where a space tourism capsule has been grounded for six months amid safety concerns. → Read More
Paparazzi Won't Stop Harassing Bruce Willis Even Though He Has Dementia
In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public. → Read More
Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits
Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites. → Read More