Love how everyone in the comments are shitting on Nintendo and Game Freak lmao

Techbros were pitching how we’d invent self replicating carbon capture nano machines in the future

Japanese government announces plans to welcome AI innovation

The AI innovation:

Drag Queen Amanda Tori Meating has talked about her day job as a minimum wage Onlyfans writer. There’s an entire industry involving talent agencies representing low wage gig workers that pretend to be the model you’re paying $X per month to interact with.

The precedent was already set back in 2020 when the US government forced Kunlun to sell Grindr

train AI Chatbot to behave like human business consultants

AI Chatbot starts behaving like human business consultants

😮

I prefer the term lobotomize

You could try to convert it to a “headless” laptop.

Some cash savvy people have been buying M1 macbooks with broken screens and converting them into headless laptops. For the price of a broken MacBook and some tinkering, you can get what is essentially a Mac mini with a touchpad and keyboard.

https://youtu.be/uOigVjqW7hc

AI generated medical research can’t make it past peer review, it can’t hurt you

AI generated medical research that made it past peer review:

Maybe you only do an “odd bit” of mundane writing and the image/music generation is a gimmick, but a lot of the modern world is mundane and pays people lots of money for mundane work. E.g. think of those internal corporate videos which require a script, stock photography and footage, basic corporate music following a 4 chord progression, a voiceover, all edited into a video.

Steve Taylor is most famous for being the voiceover for Kurzgesagt videos, but more generally he’s a voiceover artist that features in lot of these boring corporate videos. This type of content has such high demand there is an entire industry dedicated towards it, which seems well suited to AI.

https://youtu.be/vDb2h1-7LA0

This does raise further ethical/economical issues though, as most people in these creative industries actually require income from this boring work to get by.

Because they broke lol. A night out is expensive, and can easily cost over $100.

Public transport to club: $5 Dinner/pre drinks: $30 Club entry: $25 Club drinks: $18 x 2 = $36 Uber home: $30

Sure you probably save money by going for cheaper drinks etc, but then you spend a lot of effort worried about costs for what is meant to be leisure time.

Tbh I didn’t really understand paying for online events like twitch donations, but then realised that a night in with supermarket liquor + sub donations is much cheaper than going out.

This isn’t new. Recruiting firms such as HireVue have been pushing out “AI” interviewing platforms which automatically judge your body language, fashion choices, tone of language etc since at least 2018.

Companies are using AI to stop bias in hiring. They could also make discrimination worse. - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvq9ep/companies-are-using-ai-to-stop-bias-in-hiring-they-could-also-make-discrimination-worse

Atheist calls for treaty regulating religion, warning of potential for “theological dictatorship”

Some Australian cities installed usb charging ports on their bus fleets. They were filled with chewing gum within a week