2.7-million-year-old tools reveal humanity’s first great innovation

For nearly 300,000 years, early humans shaped stone tools with precision, even as they faced constant wildfires, severe droughts, and dramatic shifts in their environment. A new study published in Nature Communications reveals astonishing evidence of this long-lived technological tradition in Kenya’s Turkana Basin. At the Namorotukunan Site, an international team of researchers uncovered one…

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The Use Of Scenario-Driven Simulations Won’t Protect Us From AGI And AI Superintelligence Going Rogue

Devising simulations to test AGI have their tradeoffs. getty In today’s column, I examine a highly touted means of staving off the existential risk of attaining artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI). Some stridently believe that one means of ensuring that AGI and ASI won’t opt to wipe out humanity is to first…

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts. Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden,…

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