Companies Are Paying Bonkers Salaries for People Good at ChatGPT
Six Figures While the rest of the world is rightfully concerned about ChatGPT coming to take their jobs, some companies are offering six-figure salaries to a select few who are…
Month: March 2023
China Plans to Make Its Space Debris Hit the Ground a Little Slower
Chute from the Stars China’s space program has a bit of a debris problem: the expendable boosters of its multistage rockets tend to come haphazardly falling back to Earth after…
Gen Z Is Embracing a Hot New Technology: Flip Phones
Brick Revival Ever-nostalgic Gen Z-ers are resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology’s past: flip phones, or “dumb phones” of a bygone era that long predates the smartphone age. “I think…
Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say
Relatable Overeating isn’t just for stressed-out humans, it seems. According to a new study published in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, it’s also the preferred coping mechanism of a certain…
BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes
Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. “I think that there are two…
The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart
On the battlefield of the metaverse, Mickey Mouse and Clippy are the latest fallen warriors. Between mass industry job cuts and a trance-like shift toward generative AI, it’s a strange…
Deranged New AI Has No Guardrails Whatsoever, Proudly Praises Hitler
An unhinged new AI chatbot dubbed FreedomGPT just dropped — and it was trained to have absolutely no inhibitions whatsoever. The tool, which was built by AI venture capital firm…
What Is A Tank And When Is It Pedantic
Update 1/19/23 fixed a duplicated portion of the story.I’m not a tank expert. But I am capable of both levels of pedanticism, and passive indifference few mortals can ever reach.…
AI-Generated Articles: A Party Trick With Dangerous Consequences
AI is far from the science fiction vision. But generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) AIs like ChatGPT are now mainstream. GPT processes a tremendous amount of existing text, essentially reading millions…
Why Google Search Sucks And A Tribute To Neil Gaiman
Google grants access to information kings didn’t have 50 years before. I have consumed so much content, books, podcasts, movies, articles, songs, and possibly the Ph.D. thesis of a woman…