Lifestyle and food writer Jenn Fujikawa has created the ultimate geeky candy for Easter this year: The Jabba the Hutt marshmallow treat!
These bouncy treats are made of a sweet homemade marshmallow, covered in a sugary dust — a color specific to his high exaltedness, the great Jabba the Hutt. This holiday, you’re sure to want one of these pillowy Hutt sweets in your Easter basket.
If you’re interested in creating your own, Starwars.com has the full recipe right over here!
Yesterday Microsoft released a sweet, innocent chatbot designed to speak like a “millennial.” Today that chatbot is a corrupt foul-mouthed racist that has to be censored.
The experiment and the outcome are perhaps a perfect example of how any attempt to give human elements to machines and software are undermined by the fact that some humans aren’t very nice.
The bot, Tay, is an experiment in artificial intelligence. It’s partly designed to check the basics of learning and adapting work, and partly to check if that’s possible while maintaining a characteristic voice, namely that of an 18-24 year old designed to irritate anyone with a more conventional grammar and vocabulary.
While Microsoft programmed some basics into Tay’s virtual knowledge and understanding, it’s designed to pick up phrases from the humans who interact with it and learn how to use them in context.
The problem is that it turns out Internet users do exactly what any naughty child does with a speaking toy. Numerous users took advantage of the discovery that tweeting Tay and asking it to “repeat after me” would do exactly that. While that could have been nothing more than a two-second prank that people would soon get tired of, unfortunately Tay started “learning” these phrases and unleashing them in conversation with unsuspecting users.
Without going into the specifics, let’s just say Godwin’s Law was soon proven correct, while Tay has learned to offer a range of (contradictory) opinions about Caitlyn Jenner.
Microsoft has now begun making “adjustments” to Tay’s operations as well as manually deleting some of the more inappropriate tweets.
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The LEGO® Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
In theaters in 2017!
This comic from our pals over at Commitstrip illustrates what happens to sites that block people who use ad blockers.
As far as you guys go, I know that between 20% and 40% of you are blocking ads on Geeks are Sexy. I’ve recently moved to a single gaming/geek-focused ad network, which should help quite a lot when it comes to the quality of our ads. I know it will slow down the site a bit, but if you guys would consider whitelisting geeksaresexy.net in your ad blocker settings, it would be awesome. If you don’t want to do it, we also have a patreon page where you can leave a small monthly tip to help us! Running this place costs the price of a medium-sized car each year after all.
Whatever you decide to do, we’re glad you’re here with us! :)
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These “Guardians of the Galaxy” mug are probably the cutest and most adorable mugs I’ve ever seen! I especially like the “Groot” one!
I am Mug!
Watch as heavy metal drummer Joey Muha performs over the children classic “I’m a Little Teapot.” Now the only thing that would make this performance even more awesome is if Linzey Rae of “Metal Kitchen” fame would tag along to perform the audio track while this guy drums in the backgroud.
Heard that, Linzey? This needs to happen.
A Japanese newspaper claims Nintendo will drop production of the Wii U this year. Nintendo has responded with what may be a denial.
The report in Nikkei appears to be based on getting word from component manufacturers that they’ve stopped producing some of the parts used in the console. The plan seems to be to make just enough to keep up with current demand but avoid having too many unsold units when the next Nintendo console, codenamed the NX, goes on sale.
That seems to fit in with recent sales figures which had a drop that’s hard to explain as a sudden lack of interest and instead suggests stock levels are already being wound down.
To date, Nintendo’s only official word on the NX is that it will be unveiled at some point in 2016. If the Wii U story is correct, that may be a sign it’s planning to actually have the console on sale in time for Christmas.
While Nintendo has issued what’s being covered by many sources as a “denial” that may not be exactly the case. It gave a statement to a Japanese news site that Google Translate has as saying the Nikkei article was “not an announcement from the Company” which is nothing more than a statement of the obvious.
It added that it has “plans to continue even production next fiscal year and beyond” though some translations have it that it said “From the next quarter and thereafter as well, production is scheduled to continue.”
The latter translation at least is not incompatible with plans to end production by the end of the year. The former translation is more of a grey area: the next Nintendo fiscal year starts in just over a week, so on the face of it the company appears to be saying production will continue at least into April 2017.
This robot was present at the SXSW festival and took the liberty to express her desire to destroy humanity.
Robotics is finally reaching the mainstream and androids – humanlike robots – are everywhere at SXSW Experts believe humanlike robots are the key to smoothing communication between humans and computers, and realizing a dream of compassionate robots that help invent the future of life.
Seriously, these androids’ facial expressions are much more convincing when they used to be a few years ago. Now try to imagine what they’ll look like in just 10 years. Here’s another one from Hanson Robotics, the same company that made the one featured on top of this post.
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