What if you could pay back your taxes by binge watching ads? Or hand out speeding tickets to other drivers? Well, if designer Soren Iverson had his way you could. All thanks to his unhinged ideas that he has been posting daily for over a year now. I like to call myself Craig “The Idea Man” Shames but this dude actually deserves the moniker as he has been iterating on an every day basis with actual screenshots of his ideas brought to life. Having come up with hundreds of ideas and gone viral dozens of times he now has enough material to publish a coffee table book of them called “Can You Imagin ..read more

Dogs are part of our families and most of us pamper them as much as we can, providing them with toys, comfortable beds, high quality dog food (if not human food) and various other amenities. And now we can add one more to the list: first class flights thanks to the new BARK Air. According to the New York Post: “Dog toy company BARK will launch a jet charter service that promises ‘white paw service’ — though it will cost as much as $16,000 for a round-trip ticket for just one pooch and its doting owner. Dubbed BARK Air, the company best known for its subscription BarkBoxes filled with pet toys ..read more

Mitochondria. Plants. Something else?! For perhaps only the third time in history one organism has consumed another leading to the creation of something entirely new and useful. A major evolutionary leap forward that we are now witnessing in real time. New Atlas explains: “Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants. The phenomenon is called primary endosymbiosis, and it occurs when one microbial organism engulfs another, and ..read more

As a futurist I like to pretend that I’m good at predicting the future. But soon we might have an AI that can actually do it. Interesting Engineering explains: “A new study from researchers at MIT and the University of Washington reveals an AI model that can accurately predict a person or a machine’s future actions.  The AI is known as the latent inference budget model (L-IBM). The study authors claim that L-IBM is better than other previously proposed frameworks capable of modeling human decision-making. It works by examining past behavior, actions, and limitations linked to the thinking ..read more

Some writers are already using ChatGPT to help them churn out novels and eventually we may get to the point where an AI just does all our writing for us. But for now instead of fearing AI we can use it to our advantage. To help us sell the books we’ve already written. As Fast Company puts it: “Most novelists are left trying to drum up awareness for their books themselves, via social media. But as every author will tell you, myself included, tweets exclaiming ‘Check out my new book!’ rarely go far. That’s where Hypnovels comes in. It’s a new generative AI tool that allows authors to ..read more

Who should be the next James Bond? Aaron Taylor-Johnson? Idris Elba? Someone else? What about Henry Cavill? If you’re leaning towards Superman a recent AI infused concept trailer has got you covered. As Futurism puts it: “Misleadingly billed as ‘Bond 26 – First Trailer,’ the fake casts Margot Robbie as Cavill’s co-star, and envisions — in another common fantasy pick — Christopher Nolan as director, according to the suspiciously ChatGPT-sounding synopsis in the video description. Created by KH Studio, which has dozens of fake trailers like these on its channel, the video uses a mix of AI image ..read more

In the future AI girlfriends and boyfriends will be commonplace as we seek companionship any way we can get it. Meanwhile, AI newscasters will bring us the news while AI influencers hawk wares and sell us new products. Soon, everywhere we turn we’ll see beautiful AI created people integrating into our lives as they interact with us, entertain us, and comfort us. So we might as well start appreciating their beauty. People explains: “The future of AI is here. The world’s first AI beauty pageant will judge AI-generated contestants competing for the title of “Miss AI.” The competition is ..read more

I’m currently dealing with some annoying pigeons at my house who have moved onto my balcony and chirp all day and night. But soon we might all have to deal with PIGEON, a new AI that can identify our location from a photo. Is this a bad thing? Geoguessing has become increasingly popular over the last few years as some people have proven proficient with identifying where someone is based on a simple photo. Some can even pinpoint the location in a manner of minutes or seconds. And now an AI can do the same. According to NPR: “A student project has revealed yet another power of artificial intelli ..read more

Earlier today Boston Dynamics unveiled the latest version of their ATLAS robot, now equipped with some insane dexterity. JUST IN: Boston Dynamics just revealed its new generation of Atlas robot. This is absolutely incredible.pic.twitter.com/YVuRJfPLYq — Barsee (@heyBarsee) April 17, 2024 But in order to make these humanoid robots useful in industrial and real world settings they’re going to need to be powered by more advanced AI with NVIDIA poised to lead the way there. Tech Radar explains: “The age of humanoid robots could be a significant step closer thanks to a new release from Nvidia ..read more

The OpenAI/Microsoft partnership is once again making headlines as reports suggest that they are looking to build a new data center and/or supercomputer or a data center that acts like a supercomputer to take their game to the next level. Next Platform sums it up best: “The first thing to note about the rumored ‘Stargate’ system that Microsoft is planning to build to support the computational needs of its large language model partner, OpenAI, is that the people doing the talking – reportedly OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman – are talking about a datacenter, not a supercomputer. And th ..read more