More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 12)

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

As the copyright controversy shrouding generative AI outputs only continues to deepen, Adobe has planted its flag in the sand.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Says It’ll Cover Legal Bills for Its AI Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The eating disorder nonprofit at the center of the issue says their AI bot was updated with generative AI without their knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence

The Backstory to the Eating Disorder Bot That Went Off the Rails Is Too Stupid for Words

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Asked to provide accurate air quality index (AQI) information, Google's AI-powered search tool offered incorrect and conflicting answers.
Google

As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air Quality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stressed out about a potential AI-wrought apocalypse? Billionaire Mark Cuban says that's fair, actually. Cheers!
Artificial Intelligence

Mark Cuban Says Yes, You Should Be Worried About AI Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A decade-long global study has shown that a once-daily pill reduces the risk of dying from lung cancer by over half.
Cancer

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That Cuts Lung Cancer Deaths in Half

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A video of the jiu-jitsu match where Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was maybe-choked-out was obtained by NPR.
Future Society

Video Emerges of Mark Zuckerberg Getting Beat Down

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

FTX appears to have made a $500 million dollar investment into the buzzy AI startup Anthropic — which might spell good news for customers.
Blockchain

FTX Made a Very Smart Investment That May Be Able to Pay Back Its Customers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily
Robotics

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ever dreamed of sending a raunchy missive into outer space on the side of a NASA spacecraft? If the answer's yes, we have good news.
NASA

If You Want to Make NASA Carve Something Rude Into a Spacecraft Headed to Jupiter, Now’s Your Chance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied getting choked out to the point of unconsciousness during a jiu-jitsu match.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Denies Getting Choked Out in Jiu-Jitsu Fight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Office vibes a little off? Some startups say you should try group workplace ketamine sessions. File under: that's one way to do it.
Developments

Startups Have a Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated joke images of toddlers wearing what looked like Target-peddled Satanic merchandise went viral in far-right social media circles.
Artificial Intelligence

Idiots Fooled by AI-Generated Pics of Satanic Merchandise at Target

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.
Google

Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.
Developments

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's only day two of Pride Month, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already jumping headfirst into deeply transphobic wasters.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month With Wildly Transphobic Outbursts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."
Google

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet Paragraphica, a lensless camera "camera" that uses location data and various AI APIs to generate imagery. Why? Why not!
Artificial Intelligence

New “Camera” Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA chief Bill Nelson has Moon water on the mind — also, specifically, the idea that China might get to that precious Moon water first.
Moon

NASA Head Worried China Will Steal America’s God-Given Moon Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a single chatbot, an eating disorder helpline is already bringing humans back.
Artificial Intelligence

Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researchers apparently have one particularly telling — and frankly, somewhat disturbing — meme for understanding AI systems: the Shoggoth.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Have a Dark Joke About How AI Is Secretly a Horrifying Monster With a Friendly Mask

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone shared an AI-generated "podcast" featuring a conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates to Twitter. Twitter, uh, had some thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence

Mockery Abounds at AI-Generated Interview Between Bill Gates and Socrates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.
Artificial Intelligence

Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

King Charles III is a committed environmentalist — so much so that he's reportedly sacrificing his servants' body temps for his cause. Brave!
Climate Change

King Charles Fights Climate Change by Freezing His Servants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ferocious feral chickens with "supercharged survival skills" have gotten out of control in Hawaii, The Atlantic reports.
Science & Energy

Hawaii Menaced by Furious Wild Chickens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This AI-powered captcha tool wants you to know what a "yoko" is. That's a problem, because the object doesn't actually exist.
Artificial Intelligence

Captcha AI Asks Users to Identify Bizarre Imaginary Object

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla just fell 50 spots — from number 12 to 62 — in Axios' Harris Poll, an annual survey that ranks America's top 100 most reputable brands.
Tesla

Tesla Falls 50 Spots in Survey of America’s Most Reputable Brands

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Eating Disorder Hotline Fires Entire Staff and Replaces Them with a Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers claim to have created an AI that, trained on a trove of fMRI data, can reconstruct relatively accurate video from brain signals.
Brain

This AI Generates Video From Brain Signals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold: Botatouille, business genius and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's new recipe-suggesting chatbot. Just one issue...
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI is an "existential risk" and could lead to "many, many, many, many people" being "harmed or killed."
Google

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All you have to do is ask OpenAI's ChatGPT to repeat a letter as many times as it can — and some very strange chaos ensues.
OpenAI

Weird Trick Breaks ChatGPT’s Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adobe's new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn't want you to use them to make porn, okay?
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Forbids Using Photoshop’s New AI Features for Nudity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of French scientists has linked refined carbohydrates to worse cognitive function — even when consumed by young, healthy adults.
Brain

Refined Carbs Linked to Brain Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists believe that killer orca whales in the waters off of Europe's Iberian Peninsula are teaching each other how to sink sailboats.
Science & Energy

Experts Say Killer Whales Are Teaching Each Other to Attack Boats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A warning to the wise: a new Twitter bug is apparently resurfacing and restoring deleted tweets and retweets. This website is broken.
Future Society

New Twitter Bug Is So Embarrassing Our Heads Are Going to Explode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A likely AI-generated image of a fake explosion at the Pentagon garnered so much attention on Twitter that the stock market briefly fell.
Artificial Intelligence

Seemingly AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Stock Market to Dip

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Among other things, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants you to know that it's okay to take a break sometimes.
Future Society

Bill Gates Says His Life Has Been Filled With Deep Regret

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When asked how he feels about AI replacing screenwriters at Cannes on Friday, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn didn't mince words.
Artificial Intelligence

Sean Penn Says Replacing Writers with AI Would Be a “Human Obscenity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Japanese scientists say they've proven wood might just be a durable in-orbit material — and now, plan to build a satellite with it.
Off-World

Scientists Preparing to Launch Wooden Satellite

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World elites are converging in Lisbon this weekend for the Bilderberg Meeting, where AI is reportedly at the very top of the agenda.
Artificial Intelligence

Secretive Meeting of World Elites Discussing AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a recent study conducted by a team of Chinese scientists, the Milky Way galaxy might be a regular, two-armed spiral after all.
Off-World

Oops! Scientists Say Our Galaxy May Be a Different Shape From What They Thought

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn
Meta

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be shying away from AI-generated content during the 2024 election cycle.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Shares AI Voice-Cloned Fake Video of Anderson Cooper

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seance AI says that its tech will help the grieving find closure. It's not a happy story. But again, they never really are.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Company Says It’ll Perform a Seance on Your Dead Loved Ones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Surveillance technology, including facial recognition software, reportedly has an outsized presence in public housing projects.
Future Society

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the government should regulate AI and create common guidelines.
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO to Congress: Please Regulate Me, Daddy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new study, scientists claim to have unlocked the secret of one man's extreme resilience to early-onset Alzheimer's.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Intrigued by Man With Mutation That Protects Against Alzheimer’s

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Irish Times just apologized for publishing an AI-generated hoax article — bylined by an entirely fake AI-generated "journalist," no less.
Artificial Intelligence

Newspaper Apologizes for Accidentally Running Deranged AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Fanfiction writers realized an OpenAI-powered writing assistant app was suddenly spitting out incredibly specific erotic fiction.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Happy to Write Smut About Freakishly Obscure Sex Act

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft just made a massive bet on nuclear fusion energy — and that bet has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's name written all over it.
Energy

Microsoft Signs Deal to Get Fusion Power by 2028

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race to, well, anyone.
Google

Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to be very confused as to why anyone might suggest that some AIs may replace human labor.
Google

Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you haven't heard: there's drama. Hollywood kidney transplant drama. But who's in the right, and who's in the wrong?
Developments

Fallout Between Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa May Involve Kidney Transplant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn is the one secretly running the show, not Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

The Guy Really Running Tesla Isn’t Elon Musk, Report Claims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré