More from Frank Landymore (Page 21)

Each iteration of OpenAI's GPT has been way bigger than the last. But the era of simply scaling up AIs may already be at an end, according to Sam Altman.
OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI Says Making Models Bigger Is Already Played Out

By Frank Landymore

The facility will be used to monitor how humans handle living a year on Mars. A grueling experiment, but at least the volunteers will be able to game.
Mars

NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat Includes Such Necessities As a PS4 and Settlers of Catan

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.
NASA

NASA Confirms That Cosmic Object Is so Bright That It Defies Laws of Physics

By Frank Landymore

President Joe Biden wants to impose strict emissions regulations on automakers to ensure EVs make up the majority of new car sales by 2030.
Pollution

Biden to Propose Extreme Car Pollution Limits to Drive Up EV Sales

By Frank Landymore

If you're sending humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, you better make sure your astronauts are safe — and look good while doing it.
Moon

NASA’s Moon Spacesuits Are Brain-Meltingly Expensive

By Frank Landymore

Years after shutting down its robotics division, OpenAI is now back in the game after raising funding for Norwegian robotics company 1X.
OpenAI

Oh God… OpenAI Is Working on a Humanoid Robot

By Frank Landymore

The core-mantle boundary is dotted with Everest-dwarfing "mountains" made of ocean floors that were dragged to the interior over millions of years.
Science & Energy

The Earth’s Core Is Wrapped in the Floor of an Ancient Ocean, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Recovered human hairs provide the first direct evidence that prehistoric Europeans were fond of consuming psychoactive rugs like scopolamine.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Ancient Humans Were Tripping Balls in a Cave

By Frank Landymore

Btech workers got paid six figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoarde talent.
Future Society

Big Tech Employees Say They Were Paid a Fortune to Do Essentially Nothing

By Frank Landymore

It might be gone by now, but if you use Google Pay, you might've received some free dinero that you'll want to cash out sooner than rather than later.
Future Society

Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX's "V2 Mini" Starlink satellites, the bite-sized test version of the company's next generation of satellites, are struggling to stay in orbit.
SpaceX

Brand New SpaceX Satellite Falls to Its Death

By Frank Landymore

A project that touted so-called "liquid trees" from two years ago has recently been ruthlessly mocked online. Do they deserve the hate?
Pollution

These Fake Liquid Trees Are Enraging the Internet

By Frank Landymore

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company has AI search products in the work, with aspirations of integrating chatbot functionality into its Google Search.
Google

Google CEO Says It’s Adding AI to Search

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.
Developments

New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

By Frank Landymore

NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba wanted to get three lucky astronauts all in the same meeting to tell them they were Moon-bound. Easier said than done.
Moon

NASA Ran Into Trouble Telling Astronauts They Were Going to the Moon

By Frank Landymore

IT company Arthur Grand Technologies is feeling the heat for a racist job listing that it's blaming on a rogue employee. Many don't buy its explanation.
Future Society

Tech Company Accidentally Posts Racist “White-Only” Job Listing, Shrinks Into a Corncob

By Frank Landymore

Not only does generative AI threaten originality in art, as some argue, it undeniably makes who gets the credit for intellectual property a lot murkier.
Artificial Intelligence

Hollywood Panicking Over the Rise of Generative AI

By Frank Landymore

The startup Venus Aerospace wants to make use of experimental rotating detonation rocket engines to make the fastest passenger aircraft ever.
Advanced Transport

Company Working on Rocket-Powered Passenger Plane That Goes Mach 9

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have detected radio signals from a rocky planet revolving around its star, making it a strong candidate for an exoplanet with an atmosphere.
Exoplanets

Scientists Intrigued by Repeating Signal From Earth-Sized Exoplanet

By Frank Landymore

The Belgian man reportedly spent weeks on end talking to a chatbot named Eliza, which repeatedly urged him to kill himself.
Artificial Intelligence

Widow Says Man Died by Suicide After Talking to AI Chatbot

By Frank Landymore

When Stanford researchers compared ChatGPT's medical advice on real scenarios compared to what medical experts said, they discovered a notable discrepancy.
Developments

ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI teamed up with Khan Academy creator Salman Khan to create an AI-powered chatbot tutor for Khan's schools, debuting it last week.
OpenAI

Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

It turns out that the T-Rex may not have had the fearsome, toothy leer with its maw closed that we're all too familiar with.
Science & Energy

Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.
Science & Energy

Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have the Camouflage Ability of Squids

By Frank Landymore

They call it the BOAT, or the brightest of all time, for a reason. But the origins of the gamma ray burst remain difficult to pin down.
Off-World

Gamma Ray Burst Was So Bright It Blinded Almost All Equipment to Detect It

By Frank Landymore

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.
OpenAI

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

By Frank Landymore

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.
OpenAI

Scammers Are Using ChatGPT to Write Emails That Aren’t Riddled With Typos

By Frank Landymore

The crypto platform LunarCrush will be stowing a bounty of 62 Bitcoin on the Moon, currently worth around $1.5 million — and it's completely up for grabs.
Bitcoin

SpaceX Flying Bitcoin Bounty to Moon, Where Anyone Can Grab It If They Can Get There

By Frank Landymore

Midjourney is now discontinuing its free trial offers. But its CEO says the move is unrelated to the viral convincing fakes of celebrities the AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney Nixes Free Generations After AI Pope Images Go Viral

By Frank Landymore

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

China's space program is finalizinga recovery system that will allow discarded rocket boosters to gently and accurately descend to earth via parachutes.
Off-World

China Plans to Make Its Space Debris Hit the Ground a Little Slower

By Frank Landymore

A new study mapped how high blood pressure affects regions of the brain from over 30,000 patients, showing changes also linked to dementia.
Neuroscience and Brain

High Blood Pressure May Cause Dementia, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Whitehat hackers chained together several vulnerabilities to prove they could remotely take over a host of a Tesla's systems.
Tesla

Hackers Say They Can Access Teslas and Make Them Honk Wildly

By Frank Landymore

Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, wants you to know that it's made a meatball out of mammoth meat which may or may not be tasty.
Hacking

Gene Hackers Create Meatball From Resurrected Mammoth Meat

By Frank Landymore

An array of fiery streaks was spotted soaring across the sky over Florida early Thursday morning, believed to be the remains of a deployed Chinese rocket.
Future Society

Burning Rocket Debris Leave Epic Streak Across Florida Sky

By Frank Landymore

Geoffrey Hinton recently shared his thoughts on the state of AI in an interview with CBS. While enthusiastic about AI's progress, he's also urging caution.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

By Frank Landymore

The US Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert warning the public of voice cloning scams, which seem to be on the rise.
Artificial Intelligence

FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

By Frank Landymore

A ginormous, tornado of plasma has been spotted on the Sun's surface, violently raging within a powerful magnetic structure.
Off-World

We’re in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.
Virtual Reality

VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane

By Frank Landymore

Avi Loeb has good evidence that a meteorite that crashed to Earth was interstellar. He thinks it might even be alien — which is why he's looking for it.
Science & Energy

Harvard Physicist Preparing Expedition to Recover Possible Alien Artifact

By Frank Landymore

The triple-A video game developer has unveiled its new "Ghostwriter" tool, which in theory will save writers the extra effort of writing a zillion "barks."
Artificial Intelligence

Ubisoft Develops Tool to Crank Out Video Game Dialogue Using AI

By Frank Landymore

An app called CupidBots uses AI to automate swiping and flirting on various dating apps, and is specifically tailored to target women.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet CupidBot, the Horrifying Dating App Using AI to Harass Women

By Frank Landymore

While testing Google's Bard AI, the editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware discovered that the chatbot plagiarized an answer from his site.
Google

Google’s Bard AI Credibly Accused of Plagiarizing Without Credit

By Frank Landymore

What should've been a career high discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean might be nothing but shoddy science and a prankster's plastic.
Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark

By Frank Landymore

The moons of Uranus could harbor oceans that are ungratefully spewing magnetized plasma particles onto their host planet's surface.
Moon

Scientists May Have Just Discovered New Oceans in Two of Uranus’ Moons

By Frank Landymore

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows
Artificial Intelligence

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows

By Frank Landymore

Unfortunately, much like ChatGPT, Stanford's Alpaca AI proved to be a lean, mean, misinformation machine that was too costly to maintain.
OpenAI

Stanford Pulls Down ChatGPT Clone After Safety Concerns

By Frank Landymore

Jackson Greathouse Fall has gone viral for his stunt of using ChatGPT to make all his business decisions, garnering modest investment.
OpenAI

Man Starts Business With Only $100 By Doing What ChatGPT Tells Him

By Frank Landymore

With piling debt, seized assets, and its once dependable spacecrafts now plagued with leaks, Roscosmos is in some of the worst shape ever.
Off-World

Russia’s Space Program Appears to Be Completely Falling Apart

By Frank Landymore

Midjourney's latest V5 update has got hands almost nailed down. Now, it'll take more sleuthing to tell if an image of a person is AI generated or not.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch Out, Folks: AI Image Generators Can Do Hands Now

By Frank Landymore

Residents of Sacremento and Northern California at large were treated to fiery streaks soaring overhead. Magnificent, but with mundane origins.
Off-World

Jettisoned From Space Station, Burning Space Junk Streaks Across California Sky

By Frank Landymore

If you need random numbers generated, steer clear of ChatGPT. Unless you want responses to be less random and more poisoned by human preferences, that is.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Hilariously Bad at Generating Random Numbers

By Frank Landymore

Babesiosis ticks
Developments

Summer 2023’s Hot Tick-Borne Flu Disease to Fear: Babesiosis

By Frank Landymore

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue
Exobiology

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue

By Frank Landymore

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans
Robotics

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans

By Frank Landymore

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash
Black Holes

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash

By Frank Landymore

venus volcanos
Off-World

Incredible: An Active Volcano on Venus, Seen for the Very First Time

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI, hasn't shied away from expressing his disdain (or horror) over the company's newfound direction and success.
OpenAI

Elon Musk Is Super Pissed OpenAI Became Successful After He Left

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is developing a satellite network of its own called Project Kuiper, and has now revealed the designs of the terminals that would connect to it.
SpaceX

This Is What the Terminals for Amazon’s “Starlink” Competitor Look Like

By Frank Landymore

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Breathtaking Image of a Titanic Star That’s About to Explode

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted some dunes that are practically perfect circles. So the question remains: how did they form?
Mars

Scientists Baffled By These Almost Perfectly Circular Dunes on Mars

By Frank Landymore

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.
NASA

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

By Frank Landymore

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.
Physics

Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy Physics

By Frank Landymore

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.
OpenAI

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

By Frank Landymore