We’ve come a long way, technologically speaking. But is there anything more frustrating than talking to robots?

Us: “Hey Siri, navigate me to the coffee shop.”

Siri: “Here’s what I could find on the web for cough drops. I also sent a text to your ex-girlfriend’s mom wishing her a happy new year.”

An AI Calculator Can Determine When You Will Die, and It’s Unnervingly Accurate

We don’t know what to believe. On one hand, this does seem like something AI could be used for. If it was trained to analyze billions of human lives and cross that with personal factors like where you live, your income, your health history, and your profession, we could see how this would be able to predict, with some accuracy, when you might die. On the other hand, the headline of this article forgot the apostrophe in “It’s.” So can we really trust this reporting?

Amazon Founder Dumps His Own Stock to Buy This New Technology

[Partner] Jeff Bezos shocked investors with this bold prediction: “I predict one day, Amazon will fail.” He’s reinvesting his money into a fast-emerging technology he believes will “improve every business.” And a company less than a fraction of the size of Amazon is producing a component so powerful that it’s absolutely annihilating the competition. Some market researchers believe this technology could potentially be worth up to $15.7 trillion. That’s trillion. With a T. The Motley Fool’s team of investment analysts has laid out the full story. Oh. And this incredible tech trend report is free.

Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-generated Images That People Think Are Real

We showed up to our in-law holiday party wearing corduroys and a tucked-in Oxford. Everyone else was wearing pajamas. Come to find out, we weren’t included on the family text that announced the dress-code. No harm. Better this outcome than the other way around. We felt the sudden urge to share something extremely human with you after reading this article. Because apparently there’s a lot of non-human fakers out there sharing content.

Artificial Intelligence Could Become Conscious—But It’s Not There Yet

We struggle wrapping our mind around concepts like this for two reasons. The first is obvious. We’re not AI coders who understand the ins and outs of LLMs and the limitations of current technology. The second is that we, as your fellow human, aren’t even sure we can describe what consciousness really is. So basically, we don’t fully grasp robots or humans. Hmm.

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Sh*t’s About to Get Real Weird

These AI-generated cameras. The large AI models creating smaller AI tools without humans. Google’s 2024 AI tools. How to create a new LinkedIn headshot with AI. AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy. Why this hair salon is using AI. What was the first pop song written by AI?

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