Ola is putting Krutrim AI chatbot on its electric scooters
“Hey Masakali.” No, really. That assistant hotword was in the company’s presentation. Woo!
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Research explains why cats scratch our furniture to hell
Science is not all about sending probes to Uranus. Sometimes, we need to address the existential risk to our Ikea furniture posed by hellspawned cattos.
Rich geezers must avoid space tours as their greedy hearts risk failure, says research
Loaded old lads planning to take their next multimillion-dollar space ride might wanna take their cardiologist with them, too, says fresh research.
AI genie now turns words into film-grade videos. Creators are torn over an uncertain future.
The internet is going bat-shit crazy over Sora, an AI that makes videos from a few lines of text. Some hype-bois say Martin Scorsese will shit his midget-ass pants over the quality of these AI-vomited videos.
Right in time for V-Day, here’s fresh research on getting laid with dating apps
Don’t be a narcissist. Keep it real, and in your pants.
Google Search could be smothering your creativity
A Carnegie Mellon University study reveals starting your brainstorming process with Google can be detrimental to the group's creativity.
Teams relying much on search engines often produced inundatingly same, less original ideas due to a cognitive bias called "fixation effect," where seeing popular answers converges our thought process instead of diverging it.
While individuals weren't necessarily dumber with Google, groups of Google users seemed to get stuck in a rut, often coming up with the same common ideas, sometimes even in the same order! Talk about a copy-and-paste creativity crisis.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," explained lead author Danny Oppenheimer.
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