Ever look around and get the sense that we’re living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it’s cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the ‘Internet of Things’ has gone too damn far. Once you start …
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Unsettling Deepfakes of Tom Cruise Prove Technology Has Gone Too Far
What is a ‘deepfake?’ It’s essentially a convincing fabrication of a person’s likeness captured in a video or audio recording. Through powerful machine learning technology, an AI can take footage of a person’s face and replace it with a computer-generated one. There are plenty of YouTube videos demonstrating this tech with side-by-side comparisons of original …
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Footage of Humanoid Robots Failing at Parkour is Both Disturbing and Hilarious
Boston Dynamics, the engineering and robotics company notorious for their creepy dancing humanoid robots, has recently released footage of their latest Terminator-like Atlas droid demonstrating whole-body athletics in an obstacle course. But science and technology doesn’t always go according to plan—turns out there’s a lot of trial and error involved in designing our future robot …
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Elon Musk’s ‘Tesla Bot’ Sparks Funny & Fearful Reaction Memes
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the company’s foray into humanoid robots during Tesla’s AI Day livestream last night. The bot, which is aptly named ‘Tesla Bot’ will operate on the same intelligence as the company’s self-driving cars. Join us to build the future of AI → https://t.co/Gdd4MNet6q pic.twitter.com/86cXMVnJ59 — Tesla (@Tesla) August 20, 2021 Musk’s …
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Twitter Is Roasting Grimes After Equivocal ‘Proposition for the Communists’
Grimes is trending yet again and this time it involves artificial intelligence, communism and TikTok. Still with us? Great. Let’s cut to the chase: can someone please go check on grimes pic.twitter.com/7LHekrWVRU — Insert Clever Name (@BethLynch2020) June 3, 2021 Many bewildered TikTok followers of the ever-polarizing pop star expressed their skepticism in the comments, wondering …
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20 Reasons Why ‘Smart Devices’ Are Actually Dumb As Hell
What’s the point of ‘smart’ and ‘connected’ objects? Are they supposed to help us get through menial tasks more efficiently, or have the capitalists figured out a clever way to perpetually profit off the objects we use on a daily basis? Sometimes it feels like the latter. When your printer holds your ink cartridge hostage …
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‘New’ Nirvana Song Written & Recorded By AI Software
On this day in 1994, Kurt Cobain tragically died at the age of 27 in his Seattle home. Over the years, fans have wondered where Nirvana would have gone if not for Cobain’s untimely death, but the reality is that he suffered from both mental and physical illnesses that would have continued to hinder him …
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23 Reasons Why Connecting Everything To The Internet Is A Mistake
Ever look around and get the sense that we’re living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it’s cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the ‘Internet of Things’ has gone too damn far. Once you start …
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23 Reasons Why Connecting All Things To The Internet Is Cursed
Ever look around and get the sense that we’re living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it’s cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the ‘Internet of Things’ has gone too damn far. Once you start …
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22 Times Technology Went Too Far
If you’ve ever felt disconcerted by the way technology/AI have interfered in our lives, you’re not alone. Twitter account @internetofshit is basically dedicated to waking people up to the fact that tech is ruining our lives in the most capitalistic ways possible. Let’s all find new ways to do necessary life things and charge people …
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