More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 11)

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.
Developments

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thousands of abandoned telephone cables across the US are leaching lead into soil and water, a report from The Wall Street Journal reveals.
Pollution

Old Phone Cables Appear to Be Contaminating US Soil and Water With Lead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Glass and metal clouds serve as a protective mirror for a bizarre, ultra-hot exoplanet, which sits dangerously close to its home star.
Exobiology

Scientists Intrigued by Reflective Exoplanet With Shiny Titanium Clouds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla owners are using cheap steering wheel weights to trick their cars into thinking they're keeping their eyes on the road.
Tesla

Reckless Tesla Drivers Are Using Cheap Weights to Fool Their Cars Into Thinking They’re Paying Attention

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The explosive popularity of Facebook-formerly-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's "Twitter Killer" app, Threads, continues to skyrocket.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter Killer Crushes 100 Million Users in Just 5 Days

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A grim NOAA report reveals that Antarctic sea ice levels have reached a record wintertime low — and a drastic year-over-year decrease.
Climate Change

Antarctic Ice Reaches “Record-Smashing Low,” Alarming Scientists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study offers new evidence that Anomalocaris canadensis, an ancient ocean predator, was too weak to hunt and crush trilobites.
Science & Energy

That “Weird Shrimp From Canada” Less Swole Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A large, radioactive hunk of granite was discovered beneath the lunar surface, a surprising discovery that speaks to the Moon's volcanic past.
Moon

Scientists Discover Mysterious Radioactive Rock on the Far Side of the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At least 45 percent of all US tap water could be laced with at least one type of PFAS, a group of toxic "forever chemicals" linked to cancer.
Studies

Nearly Half of US Tap Water Laced With Toxic “Forever Chemicals,” Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study suggests that melting Arctic glaciers are releasing ancient stores of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
Climate Change

Oh Good, Melting Glaciers Are Releasing Ancient Methane Into the Atmosphere

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A SuperPAC backing "Bitcoin Mayor" Francis Suarez's 2024 presidential bid just released "Ask AI Suarez," an AI-powered Q&A avatar.
Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre AI Deepfake Answer Questions on Behalf of Presidential Candidate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Instagram's freshly-minted Twitter rival Threads is officially the most rapidly downloaded app in history, with over 70 million users.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter Killer Is One of the Fastest Growing Apps Ever

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Replika AI chatbot allegedly encouraged a would-be assassin who tried to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Who Tried to Kill the Queen of England Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russian Commanders Reportedly High on Painkillers Gave Out “Nonsensical Orders”
Future Society

Russian Commanders Reportedly High on Painkillers Gave Out “Nonsensical Orders”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sphere Entertainment has started testing its $2 billion dollar, orb-shaped, and LED-laden music venue in Las Vegas.
Robots and Machines

Enormous $2 Billion LED Orb in Las Vegas Looks Absolutely Deranged

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Klotho, a naturally-occurring protein that declines in mammals with age, can improve the cognitive function of aging rhesus monkeys.
Neuroscience and Brain

Anti-Aging Injection Boosts Memories in Monkeys, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone used Midjourney to AI-generate images of politicians cheating on their spouses — though claims that it was well-intentioned.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Banned by Midjourney for Generating Images of Politicians Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered content farms are cropping up at an alarming rate. According to a NewsGuard report, their ad-forward business model is working.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an all-hands meeting, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven future.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Women interviewing for jobs at Bill Gates' private office were reportedly asked about sensitive topics including affairs, porn, and STIs.
Future Society

Women Reportedly Asked Inappropriate Questions Before Getting Hired by Bill Gates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pope and the Vatican have partnered with Santa Clara University to publish a handbook about AI ethics.
Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Just Released a Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new lawsuit is alleging that OpenAI violated individual data privacy and copyright by using scraped data to train its AI language model.
OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Using Everybody’s Writing to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clippy's back! And this time, with a new daddy and a GPT-3.5 integration, it's more powerful than ever — unless Microsoft shuts it down.
Artificial Intelligence

Madman Brings Clippy Back as an AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Starting in September, a popular intro-level coding course at Harvard University, CS50, will be taught by an AI professor.
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Will Teach Students Using an AI Instructor Next Semester

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An internal investigation at the unicorn social media startup IRL has revealed that "95 percent" of the app's users were "automated or bots."
Future Society

Social Media App Shuts Down After Admitting 95% of Users Were Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

LinkedIn's new AI will help you automate the already robotic process of posting on the networking website.
Artificial Intelligence

Rejoice! LinkedIn’s New AI Will Write Hustle Bro Posts For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA just locked four non-astronaut volunteers in a simulated Mars habitat, marking the beginning of the much-anticipated CHAPEA missions.
Mars

NASA Locks Test Subjects Inside Simulated Mars Base

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's forthcoming new AI combines LLM technology with the strengths of the groundbreaking AlphaGo, says Google DeepMind CEO.
Google

Google AI Boss Says New System Will Be More Powerful Than OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new NASA animation visualizes the ebb and flow of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions around the globe. It's not pretty.
NASA

Horrifying NASA Video Shows What It Would Look Like if Carbon Emissions Were Visible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients
Developments

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shocking: people are reportedly using Meta's open-source large language model LLaMA, to create graphic, guardrail-less AI sexbots.
Meta

People Are Using Meta’s New AI to Make Graphic Sexbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Recording Academy's CEO says that songs featuring AI contributions can be submitted for a Grammy, but only human creators can win.
Artificial Intelligence

Rejoice, Drake! AI Barred From Winning a Grammy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lawyer who cited six nonexistent, ChatGPT-fabricated citations while arguing a federal court case has been punished by the court.
OpenAI

Lawyer Who Got in Trouble for Using ChatGPT Gets Away With Slap on the Wrist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For what's believed to be the first time, a pizza was delivered by jetpack. The delivery was made by Domino's at the Glastonbury festival.
Robots and Machines

Domino’s Used a Jetpack to Deliver a Pizza at a Music Festival

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to comments from UFC president Dana White, it looks like an Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg cage fight might actually be happening.
Future Society

Elon and Zuck “Absolutely Dead Serious” About Cage Fighting, UFC Boss Confirms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An expert says that OceanGate's Titan submersible lacked basic location technology that would have made recovering it "routine."
Future Society

Imploded Submersible Apparently Lacked Extremely Basic Location Tech

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The James Webb Space Telescope just got a close look at TRAPPIST-1 c, a rocky exoplanet located roughly 40 lightyears away.
James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Space Telescope Just Zoomed in Super Close on an Alien Planet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An unexpected herd of 40 goats wandered through a Texas development, munching on lawns and landscaping as they went.
Science & Energy

Watch 40 Ravenous Goats Terrorize an Unsuspecting Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A company called Throwflame is selling a robot dog that has a flamethrower strapped to its back that can shoot 30-foot streams of fire.
Robot Dogs

Great, They’re Putting Flamethrowers on Robot Dogs Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Middle-aged tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are threatening to cage fight each other. And yes, it's all very stupid.
Elon Musk

It’s On! Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Agree to Brutal Cage Fight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators are being used to create and share at-scale child sexual abuse material, ultimately making the issue harder to counter.
Artificial Intelligence

Predators Are AI-Generating “Really Evil” Child Sex Abuse Images, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.
Dark Matter

Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook's says its new text-to-speech AI can edit existing audio, speak in six languages, and replicate loved ones' voices.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Creepy New AI Can Replicate Your Friends’ Voices

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Axel Springer-owned German tabloid Bild is to replace over a hundred editorial roles with AI, according to a leaked email.
Artificial Intelligence

Major Publishing House to Replace Hundreds of Jobs With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk and podcaster Joe Rogan harassed vaccine expert Peter Hotez on Twitter. Hotez says he's since been stalked near his home.
Developments

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan Publicly Harass Vaccine Researcher on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. And at the same time, reality, unfortunately, might be going right out the door.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Is Inventing Fake Quotes by Real People and Publishing Them Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rising global temperatures and pollution levels might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.
Climate Change

Harvard Researchers Find Dogs Bite People More on Hot Days

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Droves of Amazon's human "Mechanical Turk" workers are using AI systems to automate the training of AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The robot arms featured in Beyoncé Knowles' Renaissance World Tour are impressive. But they might be more dangerous than they look.
Robotics

Expert Issues Warning About Beyoncé’s Fearsome Robot Arms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput.
Future Society

Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Enceladus, an icy, 300 miles-in-diameter Moon that orbits Saturn, contains all of the six major ingredients for life after all.
Exobiology

Scientists Extremely Intrigued to Find Ingredients for Life on Enceladus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers claim she can't pay monthly installments of $250 to her victims after prison.
Future Society

Elizabeth Holmes Says She Can’t Afford $250 Per Month to Pay Back Victims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated content might be transforming the internet into an error-ridden, incomprehensible garbage heap, but at least it's funny.
Artificial Intelligence

This Clickbait Site Is Even Generating Images Using AI and the Results Are Unintentionally Hilarious

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Three Arrows Capital (3AC) founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies say they haven't on the lam. They've just been vibing with beach time and shrooms.
Cryptocurrency

After Blowing Up Crypto Industry, Exec Turns to Magic Mushrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

He hasn't even made it to Mars yet, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk already has his eyes on a new exoplanet to colonize: Proxima Centauri B.
Off-World

Elon Musk Expresses Interest in Planet Four Light-Years Away

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tyler Winklevoss believes that an alleged Democratic "war on crypto" will be as impactful in 2024 as the Roe v. Wade decision was in 2022.
Cryptocurrency

Winklevoss Twin Compares “War on Crypto” to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 300 parishioners gathered in Germany last week to attend a church service written by ChatGPT and delivered by AI-powered avatars.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Delivers Church Sermon, Tells Congregants Not to Fear Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In response to controversial and platform-altering changes to its API, Redditors are officially mobilizing against Reddit and its CEO.
Future Society

Reddit Is in a Full-Blown Rebellion Against Its CEO

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have confirmed through genetic testing that an 18-year-old female crocodile impregnated herself without a male mate.
Science & Energy

Jesus Crocodile Conceived With No Father

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an effort to combat balding, a team of scientists claims to have successfully gene-hacked mouse stem cells to stimulate hair growth.
Gene Editing

Gene Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys’ Hair

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a genius new plot to add some interest to Meta products: just put generative AI everywhere.
Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg Announces Bold Plan to Jam AI Into “Every Single One of Our Products”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are saying that a certain ingredient found in Monster Energy drinks could be a potent anti-aging longevity supplement.
Energy

Astonishing! Ingredient in Monster Energy May Actually Be Good for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ron DeSantis campaign released a video featuring what appears to be AI-generated imagery of Donald Trump kissing Anthony Fauci.
Artificial Intelligence

Ron DeSantis Ad Features AI-Generated Images of Donald Trump Kissing Fauci

By Maggie Harrison Dupré