Uber Eats to Deploy 2,000 Autonomous Delivery Robots
“If you live in San Jose, Dallas, or Vancouver, you may soon be sharing the sidewalk with an army of delivery robots,” reports PC Magazine (citing a report from TechCrunch. Uber Eats is expanding its partnership with Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 zero-emission bots: Currently covering Los Angeles Read more…
ChatGPT is Already Taking Jobs
The Washington Post writes that “Some economists predict artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT could replace hundreds of millions of jobs, in a cataclysmic reorganization of the workforce mirroring the industrial revolution. “For some workers, this impact is already here.” Those that write marketing and social media content are in the Read more…
Dead Silicon Valley Unicorns Pile Up as ‘Unicorpses’
Now more than a year into the tech “correction,” the denial phase is over. There appears to be a broad consensus that lower valuations are here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But for well-capitalized private companies, it can take a while for the dominos to fall. We’ve Read more…
US Judge Orders Lawyers To Sign AI Pledge, Warning Chatbots ‘Make Stuff Up’
A federal judge in Texas is now requiring lawyers in cases before him to certify that they did not use artificial intelligence to draft their filings without a human checking their accuracy. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas issued the requirement on Tuesday, in what Read more…
Meta Will Test Blocking News For Some Canadians
CTV News is reporting that Meta will begin testing the blocking of news sites in Canada. If the argument is that the social media giants are unfairly benefitting from content from Canadian news organizations, this move should be moot as the ‘stealing’ would now be stopping. Unfortunately the opposite is Read more…
Japan Vending Machines To Automatically Offer Free Food If Earthquakes Hit
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Japan has extended its natural disaster preparations to vending machines, which will offer free food and drink in the event of a major earthquake or typhoon. Two machines have been installed in the western coastal city of Ako, located in a Read more…






