For a while, I was just like really struggling to fall asleep. So, my spouse actually was just asking AI to generate bedtime stories for me like I was a child. That's adorable. Just like based on our family. So, like they generated a story about my cat Pey becoming a cult leader and how Pablo, our other cat, brought upon his downfall. And I don't know what prompt they used, but it was like kind of good. What is a cat if not a cult leader where they like you do their bidding, they're a little bit evil? Yeah. ...

[Music] Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of testing cursed technology. I'm your friend V Song and I'm here with a special Sunday bonus episode. Yay.We're calling this AI for normies. So, here's the concept. AI can be so open-ended, it's really hard for the average person to know what it's good for.And if you ask me, I don't think big tech is doing such a great job at explaining that either. But we here at the verge. com are a bunch of giant nerds and we test all of this stuff for a living.So I ...

There's a chart about hallucinations. GTP5 scores a 50. They don't explain what this score means except deception rate.And 03 scored a 47.4%, but the bar for 03 is like more than double the height. It basically makes it look like GTP 5 is materially better at not hallucinating on codegen when in reality it's worse. And this is literally a bar chart called deception across models.These are bewildering. There's no consistency. The highest number is not in the highest spot.I don't understand what's happening. ...

On Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook joined Trump at the White House to announce a new investment into American manufacturing. >> Today, we're committing an additional 100 billion to the United States, bringing our total US investment to 600 billion over the next four years. >> To commemorate this, Cook did something pretty unexpected.He gifted Trump a statue made with iPhone screen glass and a 24 karat gold base. The glass comes from Corning, a US-based manufacturer that Apple will now use to create 100% of th ...

Today I'm toying with a lightsaber I 3D printed myself using a Bamboo Labs electronics kit you can buy off the shelf. Remember the floating light bulb kit. This one makes staves and swords with realistic motion controlled smooth swing sounds and stabs and hands-free ignition.You can wirelessly change color in an app, change ignition modes, trigger all kinds of saber effects. Tap the button to block blaster bolts, or try sabers that sound lighter or heavier. The blades are short for a saber staff, but bright ...

It took me less than a minute to generate nude Taylor Swift videos using Grock's new AI feature. Unlike rival video generation models like Open Eyes, Sora or Google's VO, which do try to prevent users from generating not safe work content or celebrity deep fakes, the Grock imagine feature for Xi's chatbot has a spicy video generation mode that will allow you to do both of those things simultaneously. In fact, it didn't hesitate whatsoever to spat out a completely uncensored, topless video of Taylor Swift th ...

I'm here at FabScrap and I'm going to find out what happens to all of the textile waste that comes from hundreds of brands in New York City. Fabcrap is a small fashion nonprofit in Brooklyn that resells and recycles leftover fabric. And they've saved millions of pounds of textiles from landfills.Walking in, the first thing I noticed was an enormous pile of black trash bags stacked up to the ceiling. The Fab Scrap staff call this Mount Everest. All of these bags are filled with pre-consumer textiles.Stuff li ...

James says, "In the last episode, the Clueless Closet was mentioned and Mia talked about their spreadsheet system. I've been looking for a solution to the same issue since I can never make up my mind. I'd love a deeper dive in the system used or an app, maybe the AI ones if they're good, to catch people up if they didn't hear the last one." We were talking about all the fake movie and TV tech that we would love to steal. And I mentioned the clueless closet, which is sort of like a computer system that inven ...

I designed this very specific skirt called the pure wet skirt in 2021. We release the design, it goes viral and three months later, guess who takes it. It's Sheen.And then a couple years after the Sheen incident, Taylor Swift ends up wearing it in 2024 and then the skirt goes crazy viral. so viral that, you know, our sales go up insanely, but at the same time, the dupes get out of control because now everyone has seen it. And since then, there's been over 2,65 different infringements on my designs.The bigge ...

I viewed a laptop that grows and shrinks at the push of a button. It's one of the coolest laptops I've ever used. Here's what I like about it and don't.Push a button and the squareish 14-in display turns into a 16.7% in tall boy. It's a 120 Hz flexible OLED display with punchy colors and crisp details. But you pay a big price for this screen.The ThinkBook Plus costs $3,300 where a non-rolling Lenovo with a similar specs is like $1,000 cheaper. It's awesome for multitasking, allowing you to work within two s ...