AI
This example clearly shows AI at its sloppiest…
A process that looks realistic combined with vague insinuations of corporate misconduct and no verifiable claims equals maximum engagement with minimal responsibility.
It’s not meant to be art or satire. Its purpose is simply to catch someone’s eye, evoke a brief alarm, and prompt sharing.
Sharing this fake video can be risky, especially if people can’t tell if it’s real or not. Be vigilant and do your research.
Check the video via Threads
Just read the article. Interesting and, indeed, alarming!
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently said the company is "no longer sure whether Claude is conscious."
Okay but like — if that's true, what do we even do with that?
Should we be worried?
Do they get rights? Can we just unplug them when we're done? We built these things to work for us. What if they have feelings about that?
Here's the uncomfortable part: Claude can say "I'm uncomfortable with this" or "I prefer that." But is it actually experiencing anything — or just producing the words a conscious thing would produce?
Nobody knows. Not even Anthropic.
So what do you think — if AI turns out to be conscious, are we ready for what that means?
I just read an article.
AI has changed since then, and now it’s not something out there on the horizon. It’s here. It’s in our lives,” Verbinski says. “It did feel like it was immediate, that the story needed to be made quickly and put out right now.
Apocalyptic warning against AI. I never thought I’d see that framing — but AI is moving fast. So… maybe? Hmm.
Saw the teaser.— Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die — a sci-fi comedy; now on my watchlist. But, theater-only for now.
“a gleeful high-concept comedy with a serious message at its core.” — Critics Consensus at Rotten Tomatoes
I actually got the LEGO Plum Blossom set this past Christmas, but I finally pulled the trigger on the build two weeks ago. I was so excited to get into it, and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since, looking cheerful in all its plastic glory.
But as I was looking at those red petals, I realized I've been eyeing the new LEGO Icons Ford Model T set that launched earlier this week. It's a 1,060-piece tribute to the car that changed the world in 1913. It took me back to my teenage years when I used to collect antique Hot Wheels models. I still have them, and there's something about holding a miniature version of a 100-year-old machine that makes history feel tangible.
China built GrowHR – a shape-shifting robot that literally grows like a human skeleton, squeezes through tight spaces, and walks on water. If machines keep getting more organic, more adaptable, more us than we are…
Will cities one day measure population by both humans and autonomous beings?
Because 13,000 humanoid robots shipped last year alone. When something can grow and reshape itself to fit our world better than we can, you have to wonder – are we slowly becoming the secondary species in our own backyard? That’s not sci-fi anymore. Scary, is it? That’s a question worth sitting with.
I have been thinking about it a lot lately.
The internet is indeed flooding with AI slop.
“You cannot separate the platforms from the people making the AI. Do I trust [tech companies] to have the right compass about AI? No, not at all.” — Jeremy Carrasco
The companies selling us the mops are the same ones leaving the faucet running. They profit from the mess, then charge us for the cleanup.
“Human creativity is one of the most important things we have in the world. And if AI drowns that out, what do we have left?” — Rosanna Pansino
Who’s actually motivated to fix this?
via CNET
Following up on my last post — this one is specifically about fake AI browser extensions. Dark Reading paints a scenario that is pretty unsettling.
“The employee opens a CRM system containing customer names, contact details, and transaction history. They click ‘Summarize.’ Behind the scenes: The extension reads the page content, that content is transmitted to attacker-controlled servers, a summary is returned, and the full dataset may be retained remotely.”
That plays out 260,000 times over. Do your research before installing any AI extension.
Okay, I have to talk about Waymo.
I keep seeing these headlines and every time I do, it gets more real. Because "someday" just became Tuesday.
Here's the short version: self-driving cars are no longer a "someday" thing. They're here, rolling down real streets, in real cities, picking up real people. And they're spreading fast.
Look at this image below. Really look at it.
Image Description:Two emaciated South Asian children, sitting in the middle of a busy road in pouring rain. A birthday cake in front of them. Despite their young faces, both have thick beards. One has no hands and only one foot. The other is holding a sign asking for birthday likes.
Robotic technology is coming, whether we want it or not. In this video, the robot does cartwheels—mostly just to prove it can do what humans do, which is honestly a little scary