Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush
Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning.
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All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025
To wrap up 2024, this week on Uncanny Valley we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.
Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality
Botto is a ‘decentralized AI artist’ whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.
The Edgelord AI That Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famed Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions
Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents. Then it took on a life of its…
Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their owners to evade traffic regulations or even law…
The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road
Following the Czech Cybertruck’s example, now there’s a rubber bumper-pimped Tesla truck attempting to be certified for use on British highways. This time, however, the chances of success look slim.
AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All
Traditional hierarchies hold businesses back. Instead, teams need to combine human and artificial intelligence to succeed.
Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine learning conference for their work on a new technique for generating images. Some have objected…
Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds.
Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla
Unlike Waymo’s hybrid system of AI training with hand-coded instructions, Wayve’s AI handles the entire self-driving process, learning unsupervised to cope with the unpredictable and drive more like we do.