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161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom

The text anticipated several modern AI safety concerns, including the possibility of machine consciousness, self-replication, and humans losing control of their technological creations. These themes later appeared in works like Isaac Asimov’s The Evitable Conflict and the Matrix films. A model of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a calculating machine invented in 1837 but never built […]

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Gentrified Doom remake trades chainsaw for cheese knife

Just when you thought you had seen every possible Doom mod, two game developers released a free browser game that reimagines the first level of 1993’s Doom as an art gallery, replacing demons with paintings and shotguns with wine glasses. Doom: The Gallery Experiencecreated by Filippo Meozzi and Liam Stone, transforms the iconic E1M1 level […]

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Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can

That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or pressing the mushroom-shaped blob on top of the Alarmo to move and pressing the other buttons to shoot or […]