Tinder plans to let machine vision algorithms loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos—everything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive documents and dick pics—to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. ...
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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody WantedRIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what ...
Mapping Google’s Unmappable CityMapping Google’s Unmappable City
North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View. YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to change that earlier this year. For a brief few days, he literally put North Oaks ...
Government Registers Aliens.Gov DomainGovernment Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
The Executive Office of the President registered the domain aliens.gov on Wednesday a little after 6:30 AM according to a bot that monitors federal domains. There’s no associated website just yet, but the registration comes a month after Trump said he would direct the government to release files related to ...
Was Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on AsteroidWas Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on Asteroid
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have discovered all five nucleobases—the fundamental components of DNA and RNA—in pristine samples from the asteroid Ryugu, according to a study published on Monday in ...
Podcast: The Disappearing DOGE DepositionsPodcast: The Disappearing DOGE Depositions
This week we start with Joseph’s series of articles about the DOGE depositions. He watched hours and hours of them, then a judge ordered them removed from YouTube. But, they’ve already been archived all over the web. After the break, Jason tells us about the AI data labelers who are ...
AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the InternetAI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet
Over the last few months, various academics and AI companies have attempted to predict how artificial intelligence is going to impact the labor market. These studies, including a high-profile paper published by Anthropic earlier this month, largely try to take the things AI is good at, or could be good ...
CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in CourtCEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica 2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create ...