More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 10)

A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.

Artificial Intelligence

Are We Ready For This Site’s Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A review of eight different AI pedestrian detectors revealed the programs to be worse at detecting darker-skinned pedestrians and kids.

Advanced Transport

Driverless Cars are Biased Against Dark-Skinned People and Kids, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you haven't been able to catch the Perseids yet, an incredible (and free!) live stream will let you watch the meteor shower in real time.

Haven’t Caught the Perseids Yet? This Amazing Live Stream Lets You Watch Them in Real Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.

Google’s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is said to be weighing a lawsuit against OpenAI over intellectual property infringement behind closed doors.

The New York Times Is Apparently Considering a Lawsuit Against OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A bizarre Bank of Ireland glitch allowed customers to withdraw up to 1,000 Euros from their accounts — even if they didn't have the money.

Bank Accidentally Lets People Withdraw Money From ATMs Even If They Don’t Have Any

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time.

Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a joint report from NASA and NOAA scientists, July may have just been the hottest month in recorded history.

July Was the Hottest Month in Recorded History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists at the University of Chicago claim to have invented a tool that protects artists' work from being accurately reproduced by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say New Tool Makes Images Worthless for Training AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Self-driving cars caused a major traffic jam on Friday in San Francisco when ten of its self-driving taxis simply shut down.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Ten Self-Driving Cars Cause Huge Traffic Jam After Losing Wireless Signal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a 2020 paper, SEC chief Gary Gensler warned that AI could lead to disastrous uniformity and interconnectedness in financial structures.

Artificial Intelligence

SEC Head Fears AI Could Cause a Financial Crash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The biggest, brightest meteor shower of the year, the annual Perseids shower, will be on full display this Saturday and Sunday.

The Most Amazing Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.

Artificial Intelligence

Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boeing's latest Starliner delay highlights the widening gap between it and SpaceX, which is slated to launch its seventh crewed NASA mission.

Boeing Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed by SpaceX

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zoom wants you to know that it definitely didn't use your video calls to train its AI — even if its convoluted TOS seems to say otherwise.

Artificial Intelligence

Zoom Insists It Wasn’t Using Private Calls to Train AI System

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This writer argues that, though flawed, the anti-plastic straw movement marks a rare, meaningful moment for the anti-plastic movement.

The Anti-Straw Movement Was Dumb, Annoying, and… Actually Worked?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Picture Alliance via Getty / Futurism

Artificial Intelligence

AI Knows What You’re Typing Just By Hearing It Over a Zoom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vatican Pool via Getty / Futurism

Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Doubles Down on AI Concerns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Tesla CFO and Alleged Elon Whisperer Zach Kirkhorn’s Watch Is Finished

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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These Anarchists Want to Destroy the Dollar with Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Dangerously Good at Giving Eating Disorder Advice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

The New Scam Flooding Amazon: AI-Generated Travel Guides

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Florida man named Joshua Hughes has taken Florida's worsening problem with invasive cane toads into his own hands.

Science & Energy

Florida Man Shoots 100 Poisonous Toads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to express his concern that AI might meddle with elections and the democratic process.

Sam Altman Fears AI’s Effect on Elections

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At nearly 70 degrees, the ocean has hit its highest recorded temperature in history — and scientists say it's only likely to continue to rise.

Ocean Hits Highest Recorded Temperature, Still Rising

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Why build sophisticated rockets to get payloads into orbit, when you could simply build dumb and loud concrete tubes instead?

Startup Working on Super-Long Tube That Shoots Stuff Into Orbit at Mach 30

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Four former ChatGPT content moderators have filed a petition for an investigation into the OpenAI-contracted moderation firm Sama.

Contractors Say OpenAI Psychologically Scarred Them for $2/Hour

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Henrietta Lacks' family has won a settlement from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech firm that made billions by selling Lacks' cells.

Henrietta Lacks’ Family Is Finally Getting Paid by the Biotech Company That Stole Her Cells

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chatbot defamation cases continue to rise, as Meta's Blenderbot3 accused Stanford cybersecurity expert Marietje Schaake of being a terrorist.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook AI Accuses AI Researcher of Being a Terrorist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A convincing hoax tricked numerous media publications into reporting that Barbie-maker Mattel was to go plastic-free by 2030.

Science & Energy

Mattel Denies Claim That All Barbies Will Be Compostable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

That viral business run by ChatGPT appears to be defunct. But to be fair, despite the AI hype of it all, it never really got off the ground.

Remember That Guy Who Gave ChatGPT $100 to Start a Business? It Failed Miserably

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An app called Remini claims to use generative AI to show users what their future kids might look like. Security experts wonder if it's safe.

Artificial Intelligence

App Claims to Use AI to Show What Your Children Would Look Like

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's easy to poke fun at the idea of marijuana addiction. But the addiction can be very real – and the stigma isn't doing addicts any favors.

Marijuana Addicts Say Nobody Takes Them Seriously

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another stone left unbranded in Twitter's disastrous X rebrand: CEO Linda Yaccarino's former username, which was quickly snagged by a troll.

Trolls Immediately Steal Twitter CEO’s Handle After “X” Name Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artist Greg Rutkowski has made it clear that he doesn't want his art in AI. Someone made a Rutkowski-specific image generator anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Puts Artist Back Into AI System After He Begs to Be Removed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to Rice University scientists studying how training AI with synthetic, AI-generated content causes a destructive inbreeding effect.

Artificial Intelligence

When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another day, another step closer to the normalization of romantic AI chatbot partners — if Andreessen Horowitz has things its way, that is.

Artificial Intelligence

Venture Capital Firm Releases Instructions for Creating AI Girlfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Officials at China's Hangzhou zoo want you to know that their Malayan sun bear is not, in fact, a human in a costume, thanks!

Science & Energy

Chinese Zoo Denies Their Bear Is a Dude in a Bear Costume

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a seismologist, Taylor Swift's Seattle Eras Tour stop caused, on both nights, 2.3 magnitude earthquakes.

Science & Energy

Taylor Swift “Eras” Tour Registers as Magnitude 2.3 Earthquake, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a May study, ancient rock samples show that the widely-accepted theory explaining Earth's Avalon explosion might be all wrong.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet Magnecko, a four-legged and absolutely terrifying new robot that can Spiderman up walls and across ceilings using its magnetic feet.

Scary New Robot Can Climb Walls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Netflix wants to pay someone anywhere between $300,000 and $900,000 to tell them exactly how it can cash in on AI tech.

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix, Intent on Using AI to Own BackGround Actors’ Faces in Perpetuity Without Pay, Will Pay You $900k If You Tell Them How to Cash in on AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some patients taking semaglutide medications Ozempic and Wegovy are experiencing gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis.

Doctors Say People Taking Semaglutide Are Suffering From Stomach Paralysis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A mile-and-a-half wide swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny toads reportedly overtook a stretch of road in Utah last week.

Science & Energy

Drivers Horrified as Writhing Toads Cover Entire Surface of Road

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than six months after its public release, OpenAI has shut down its "AI classifier," its in-house AI-detection tool. Why? It didn't work.

OpenAI Shutters AI Detection Tool Due to “Low Rate of Accuracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the second month running, the UN's security watchdog found anti-personnel mines inside Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Russia Criticized for Storing Bombs in Nuclear Power Plant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Netflix reality show has couples watch their partners cheat on them — and then has participants guess whether it was real or deepfaked.

Artificial Intelligence

Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet the "facekini," a ski mask of sorts made from UV-resistant fabrics and designed to cover a wearer's entire head and face.

There’s a Hot New Climate Change Accessory: “Facekinis” That Cover Your Entire Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered the coolest star ever found to emit radio waves. It's a brown dwarf, and it's not even as hot as a lighter flame.

Scientists Discover Star Cooler Than Cigarette Lighter Flame

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jonathan Vero, a firefighter and stuntman, has two Guinness World Records: the fastest 100-meter sprint and longest run — both while on fire.

Man Sets Record for Fastest 100-Meter Sprint While on Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI VP Peter Welinder wants you to know that OpenAI is not, in fact, making GPT-4 dumber. You just need to log off, actually.

OpenAI Vice President Denies They’re Making ChatGPT Stupider

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lawsuits against AI companies for their AI training and data practices continue to pile up. This time, Google's the one in the hot seat.

Lawsuit Claims Google Is Vacuuming Up People’s Whole Lives to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates is worried about the role that AI and AI-generated content will play in elections and democracy. And, well, the guy's got a point.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says AI Could “Undermine Elections and Democracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company. Called xAI, Musk says it was formed "to understand reality" — whatever that may mean.

Elon Musk Launches AI Company, Promises to Unlock Secrets of Reality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Training AI models with AI-generated synthetic content causes the quality of the models' outputs to disintegrate, a new paper shows.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk may be building a massive glass house for himself nearby Tesla's Texas Gigafactory — and he might be using Tesla funds to do it.

Tesla Working on Strange, Transparent Structure

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a study, scientists at Johns Hopkins University claim to have determined that, yes, you can actually hear the sound of silence.

Scientists Discover That You Can Hear Silence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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