AI threatens humanity’s future, 61% of Americans say - Reuters/Ipsos
By Anna Tong The swift growth of artificial intelligence technology could put the future of humanity at risk,
2023-05-18 01:27
Snag Apple's M2 Mac mini at its lowest price ever
SAVE $99.01: As of May 17, the Apple Mac mini (M2 chip, 256 GB) desktop
2023-05-18 01:25
Twitter is purging inactive accounts including people who have died, angering those still grieving
Elon Musk announced last week Twitter would be “purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years.”
2023-05-18 01:25
Lemon8 is the anti-BeReal with all the same problems
TikTok launched Lemon8, a Pinterest-meets-Instagram social media platform, in the middle of its ongoing fight
2023-05-18 01:23
Fortnite Put Up 'Where's Miles' Posters: How to Complete
Fortnite players must travel to Shattered Slabs, MEGA City, Slappy Shores, and Brutal Bastion to put up 'Where's Miles' posters to earn 12,000 XP.
2023-05-18 01:21
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Announce Partnership to Build Generative AI Across Enterprise IT
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2023--
2023-05-18 01:18
How Many Orientation Matches Are in Apex Legends?
New Apex Legends Season 17 players can load into Orientation matches on Kings Canyon to practice against bots before spawning into a real lobby.
2023-05-18 01:15
FIFA 23 Bundesliga TOTS Upgrade SBC: How to Complete
FIFA 23 Bundesliga TOTS Upgrade SBC is now live during Team of the Season. Here's how to complete the SBC and if it's worth it.
2023-05-18 01:15
Broadcom offers VMware remedies to address EU concerns -sources
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered interoperability remedies in an effort to address European Union
2023-05-18 00:58
Risk of Summer Blackouts Stretches Into US Southeast for First Time
The risk of summer blackouts from heat waves has extended into the US Southeast and Ontario for the
2023-05-18 00:57
AI's 'ideal body type' sparks debate across social media
As we now know, artificial intelligence has a mind of its own – and now it's dictating what the 'ideal body type' is. A recent study by The Bulimia Project asked AI software Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney to design what social media would consider the perfect man and woman. Inevitably, the results were largely "unrealistic" and couldn't be more distorted if they tried. And it goes without saying, the so-called "perfect" person does not exist. When it came to women, the AI images swayed towards blonde hair, brown eyes and olive skin. AI-generated men, however, had a bias towards brown hair, brown eyes and olive skin. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The string of images soon went viral across social media, and it didn't take long for users to chime in on AI's "problematic" take, with one writing: "The male look is actually very unhealthy." Another joked: "So, AI is basically a 14-year-old boy with no friends?" A third added: "So I need to look like I'm made of wax?" Many more slammed the software's racial bias, with the vast majority being Caucasian. "How is AI already racist?" One person asked while another said: "So the AI is also racist. I am shocked." The Bulimia Project said: "Considering that social media uses algorithms based on which content gets the most lingering eyes, it's easy to guess why AI's renderings would come out more sexualised. "But we can only assume that the reason AI came up with so many oddly shaped versions of the physiques it found on social media is that these platforms promote unrealistic body types, to begin with." Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-05-18 00:54
‘Death pool’ discovered at the bottom of the sea which kills everything instantly
If you weren’t scared of the ocean already, you probably will be after seeing this... A ‘death pool’ has been discovered at the bottom of the Red Sea that instantly kills everything that swims inside it. The pool was found by University of Miami researchers and measures a whopping 107,00 square feet. It’s a long way down, having been discovered 1.1 miles beneath the surface of the inlet of the Indian Ocean found between Africa and Asia. It has been there for an awfully long time, too. The pools are thought to have been formed from pockets of minerals which were deposited up to 23 million years ago. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The reason it’s so deadly? It contains no oxygen. Instead, it’s filled with brine and the salt solution is deadly to most things that enter it. Researcher Sam Purkis told Live Science: “Any animal that strays into the brine is immediately stunned or killed.” He also said that the pool is “among the most extreme environments on Earth.” It’s used by some creatures for food, with Purkis saying that: “Fish, shrimp and eels appear to use the brine to hunt.” Predators position themselves on the peripheries of the pool in order to “feed on the unlucky” creatures that die after swimming into it. While it’s not the first brine-filled pool under the sea discovered by scientists in the Red Sea, it is the closest to land. It can be found just 1.25miles off the coast of Egypt, while the previous closest pool was more than 15 miles away from land.Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-05-18 00:53