Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that if TikTok gets banned, enterprising Americans should use AI to steal all the content “hen you’d hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up,” if anyone sued.
The EU has passed new AI laws, including requiring detailed summaries of copyrighted works they were trained on.
For years, techies pointed out Hollywood’s vision of future computers was way behind what actually happened. John Scalzi looks at why real-world AI is so inferior to fiction. Fred Clark looks at a few other problems AI suffers.
Another problem: AI sucks up lots of cash and generates very little.
Will AI creating porn put real porn actors out of work?
A new invasive species of ant — the Manhattant!
Some state governments insist that using the federal government’s carbon-reduction funding to build highways cuts greenhouse gas emissions. They’re probably wrong.
Is it time to redefine adolescence and teenagers?
Organ donation centers claim to use far more pancreases than they really do. Here’s why.
Cryptocurrency ATMs? I hadn’t heard of them but they’re a cash cow for scammers.
Post-WW II ffordable prefab steel houses were cheap and easy to clean. Here’s why they never became a success.
And here’s why the cost of elevators makes housing overall more expensive.
Technology helps athletes. Is there a point at which using it to break records becomes unfair?
How the Soviet Union created amazing wristwatches.
How to persuade people to get rid of nukes.
Do iPhone users like your app? Allegedly Apple will rip you off.
Why does email suck?
The antivax movement continues its harmful influence. Rep. James Comer advocates arresting Antony Fauci. And just imagine ignorant anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. running the CDC. Trump has said he won’t give any federal funding to school districts with vaccine mandates which would be catastrophic unless you’re pro-polio.
Elephants know each other’s names.
Scientists prepare for the worst: a second Trump term.
A man brewed beer using 3,000 year old yeast and an Egyptian recipe.
“Patent trolls filed the majority of patent lawsuits last year and for all the years in which we have good data. In the tech sector, they file more than 80% of the lawsuits.” Congress shouldn’t make it easier for them.
California homeowners are so into solar power, the industry’s got a glut of energy it can’t unload.
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