technology
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I’m Hating It: McDonald’s AI-Powered Drive-Thru Sucks
Videos posted to TikTok are illustrating just how woefully ill-prepared automation is at taking fast food orders.
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Elon Musk’s Tweets Are All Over Twitter, Which Is What He Wanted All Along
After throwing a hissy fit last week because his tweets weren’t getting enough views, Twitter CEO Elon Musk seems to have finally gotten what he wanted: Musk-filled feeds.
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Voice Actors are Having Their Voices Stolen by AI
Towards the end of 2022, there was a big boom in AI-generated art on social media and artist-friendly sites such as ArtStation. Though human artists have been quite vocal about how art generators are copying art that already exists from real creators, AI art is gradually becoming a part of that community and other parts…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Be Awful for the Planet
If you ask some people, electric cars that can drive themselves around town will be the saviour of the world. They’ll cut out traffic accidents because there’s no way an autonomous vehicle could ever go rogue, and their electric motors will dramatically cut emissions from our journeys. But, it turns out there are a whole…