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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

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project

By Frank Landymore

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

By Frank Landymore

They've produced the first ever complete connectome of an insect brain showing every single neoron and synapse, a landmark in neuroscience.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain

By Frank Landymore

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.
Pollution

The Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Has Spiked to “Unprecedented” Levels

By Frank Landymore

What appears to be a "rogue" supermassive black hole is leaving behind a trail of newly spawned stars in its wake as it escapes its host galaxy.
Black Holes

Hubble May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole Breaking Free From Its Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Physicists accomplished the feat using lasers as optical traps, though they had quantum computing in mind more so than a national pastime.
Physics

Scientists Play Tiniest Game of Baseball By Throwing and Catching Individual Atoms

By Frank Landymore

Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings will be testing a data center on the Moon, which it believes could be the most secure location for data yet.
Moon

Florida Man Plotting to Build Web Servers on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

The director behind "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," is making a movie about Elon Musk, which the latter has already denounced.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Calls Movie About Him That Isn’t Even Out Yet a “Hit Piece”

By Frank Landymore

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership
Elon Musk

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

By Frank Landymore

Almost everyone in the world is being exposed to levels of an air pollutant known as PM 2.5 that exceed the WHO's safe threshold.
Studies

Shocking Study Finds 99 Percent of the World Population Is Breathing Harmful Air

By Frank Landymore

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a probe into Tesla's 2023 Model Y after at least two reported steering wheel incidents.
Tesla

Tesla Is Being Investigated Over Steering Wheels That Fall Off While Driving

By Frank Landymore

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.
Off-World

If There Was a “Super-Earth” In Our Solar System, It Would Probably Kill Us All

By Frank Landymore

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency's flagship H3 rocket lifted off from the pad well enough, but could not kick in its second stage engine.
Off-World

Japan’s Newest Rocket Self Destructs During Launch

By Frank Landymore

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.
Mars

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

By Frank Landymore

In a recent Reddit AMA, Keanu Reeves was asked about what he thought about the pesticide that was recently named after him.
Science & Energy

Keanu Reeves Responds to Deadly Compound Named After Him

By Frank Landymore

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

By Frank Landymore

Richard Hernandez rarely gets the opportunity to use his body while upright, but taking advantage of a new exoskeleton, he's also taking on royalty.
Health & Medicine

Man Who Can Only Walk With Exoskeleton Plays Ping Pong Against King of Spain

By Frank Landymore

There's different approaches to augmenting the human bodies with extra robot parts, and it may not even need to involve tricky brain implants.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’re Near Augmenting Human Bodies With Extra Limbs

By Frank Landymore

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.
NASA

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

By Frank Landymore

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.
NASA

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

By Frank Landymore