More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 13)

Whether cryogenics ultimately works or not, billionaire Peter Thiel says he's duty-bound to freeze his ol' bag o' bones nonetheless.
Future Society

Billionaire Peter Thiel Says He’s Freezing His Body After Death Just in Case

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered a new type of tool-using insect, nicknamed the "assassin bug" for a creative — and deadly — hunting technique.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.
Artificial Intelligence

Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.
Artificial Intelligence

Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new paper, researchers argue that emergent properties of LLM-powered AIs — widely seen as a step toward AGI — may just be "mirages."
Artificial Intelligence

Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone created AI-generated Edward Hopper painting — and Google's search featured the image in its algorithmic overview of the artist's work.
Google

Top Google Result for “Edward Hopper” an AI-Generated Fake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A water recycling firm teamed up with a Northern Californian brewery to create the Epic OneWater Brew, a beer made from recycled greywater.
Environment

Yum! Environmentally Friendly Beer Made From Used Shower Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In response to the Writer's Guild strike, a guy wants people know to that writing work doesn't matter anymore — ChatGPT can just do it. Nice.
OpenAI

Fury Erupts at Suggestion of Using ChatGPT to Replace Striking Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram this week to show off some 3D-printed dresses that he created for his daughters.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Now 3D Printing Clothes for His Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gary James Harmon of Ohio was sentenced for stealing 712 Bitcoin from his brother, fellow Ohioan crypto convict Larry Dean Harmon.
Bitcoin

Guy in Ohio Steals $21M in Bitcoin From His Brother

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 150 African content moderators — whose work has helped to power AI systems at Facebook, TikTok, and OpenAI — have unionized.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Content Moderators Just Unionized in Africa

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the saying goes, the bill always comes due — and as it stands, it's unclear whether billionaire Elon Musk's Twitter can pay up.
Elon Musk

Broke Boy Elon Musk Struggling to Pay Bills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The unfortunate explosion was "roughly what I expected," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly said in a Twitter Spaces session on Saturday.
Starship

Elon Musk Says His Great Intellect Predicted That Starship Would Explode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NewsGuard was able to identify 49 content farms producing material appearing to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of News Sites are Using AI Chatbots to Churn Out Questionable Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.
Artificial Intelligence

VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MIT professor Max Tegmark is stressed about the potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — and thinks you should be, too.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Professor Compares Ignoring AGI to “Don’t Look Up”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

More AI dating tools are cropping up, as dating app users continue to turn to AI to help them get dates. But should romance be automated?
Artificial Intelligence

Cursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vogue Italia's upcoming May issue will feature scenery that was instead generated by OpenAI's viral AI image generator, DALL-E 2.
Artificial Intelligence

Vogue Just Used AI-Generated Imagery in a Nightmare Fuel Cover Shoot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook has been playing AI infrastructure catch-up for over a year now.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Execs Panicking as They Try to Catch Up in AI Race

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Legal experts say that Elon Musk's most recent Twitter verification fiasco might get the platform into new trouble with the FTC.
Future Society

Twitter May Be in Deep Trouble Over That Blue Check Stunt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Brandon Cavanaugh, a 37-year-old former NASA intern and Boeing aerospace engineer, was sentenced for storming the capitol.
Future Society

Former NASA Intern Sentenced for Storming the US Capitol on Jan 6

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We caught up with fired Google engineer and AI ethicist Blake Lemoine to chat about the AI industry, Google, and more.
Google

We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The distressed pants. The sneakers. The butterfly shirt. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Coachella fit was... bad.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Awkward Coachella Outfit Is Seared Into Our Memories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome.
Prosthetics and Devices

Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Coinbase just sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), about a month after being threatened by the SEC with potential litigation.
Blockchain

Coinbase Is Suing the SEC

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rumor has it that Elon Musk has yet another burner account on Twitter. And no, we're not surprised. Just disappointed.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It’s Even Weirder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Snapchat users seem to really, really hate the app's new AI feature, "My AI" — and they're taking to the app star to let the company know.
Artificial Intelligence

Furious Users Demand Removal of AI From Snapchat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Any AI chatbots operating within China's digital borders must comply with its censorship laws — a bar that may prove impossible for the unpredictable tech.
Artificial Intelligence

China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Teachers are reportedly using ChatGPT to write AI-assisted letters of recommendation — which are apparently good enough to win Cambridge scholarships.
OpenAI

ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that horny ChatGPT users are becoming increasingly skilled at crafting detailed prompts that quickly cook up AI-generated porn.
OpenAI

Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds
Science & Energy

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a viral social media video, the FDNY's new Spot robodog is seen being deployed into a search-and-rescue zone — only to simply fall over.
Robot Dogs

$75,000 FDNY Robodog Goes to Work, Falls Over Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anxious about AI taking your job? Per a new BBC report, you're not alone — and frankly, automation worries aren't exactly far-fetched.
Artificial Intelligence

A New Fear Is Spreading: AI Anxiety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

PSA for anyone planning a trip to Florida: massive, smelly globs of seaweed and algae calle Sargassum are currently headed toward the state's shores.
Science & Energy

Huge Blobs Headed Toward Florida

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In recent months, Elon Musk has backtracked on previous claims that his family owned part of an emerald mine. But according to his dad? The mine was real.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Dad Says His Son’s Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Red Cross Challenges Gamers Not to Commit Any War Crimes
Future Society

Red Cross Challenges Gamers Not to Commit Any War Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, took to Twitter to proclaim that humans are hardwired for either "dominance or submission."
Meta

Meta’s Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a viral leaked video, Clearlink CEO James Clark told his writers that they should use AI to put out "30 to 50 times" more content than they do now.
Artificial Intelligence

Media CEO Says Writers Should Be Using AI to Churn Out “30-50 Times” More Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChaosGPT — the AI agent tasked with destroying humanity — was foiled again this week when its Twitter account was suspended. Another win for humans?
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter Suspends the AI Trying to Destroy Humanity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta-formerly-Facebook will lay off another 10,000 of the company's still-standing employees.
Meta

Facebook Is Getting Slammed by Another Round of Brutal Cuts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nearly 21 years after it was launched, NASA's RHESSI satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere. Chances it'll hit you are apparently "low."
NASA

This NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth After 21 Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.
Artificial Intelligence

Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Per leaked messages, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is "all for climate change." He also asked a former tabloid EIC to influence German elections. Cool.
Future Society

In Leaked Messages, CEO Says He Supports Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are reportedly taking away work from China-based videogame artists and illustrators.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Putting Videogame Illustrators Out of Work in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChaosGPT — that autonomous, open-source AI agent tasked to "destroy humanity" — is still working hard to bring about the end of our species.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Tasked With Destroying Humanity Now Trying New Tactic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider has given its reporters the green light to use OpenAI's ChatGPT for its reporting. That green light, however, came with a laundry list of warnings.
OpenAI

Major News Site Warns ChatGPT Is Inaccurate, Announces Plans to Use It Anyway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to unleash Digidog, a dystopian robodog, into the hands of the NYPD, despite mass public outrage.
Robotics

The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Widely Hated Robodog

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a survey conducted by Stanford University, 36 percent of AI researchers believe that AI could cause "nuclear-level catastrophe." Great.
Artificial Intelligence

A Third of Researchers Think that AI Could Cause a Nuclear-Level Catastrophe

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta employees are reportedly struggling to navigate a work culture plagued by mass firings, cost-cuts, and "absentee" bosses.
Future Society

It Sounds Like Facebook Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another day, another AI bro looking to defeat death — and almost certainly looking to monetize your grief via AI algorithms in the process.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Guy Changes Mind About Emulating Dead Parents After Watching “Black Mirror” Episode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A user instructed an autonomous AI agent, dubbed ChaosGPT, to destroy humanity. Though the bot gave the mission its darndest, it didn't quite work out.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter Circles is broken. Very broken. So broken that, in a particularly terrible turn, some folks' secret nude photos appeared in random feeds. Not good.
Future Society

Twitter Accidentally Made Users’ Secret Nudes Public

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness AI-assisted — or even AI-propogated — terrorism.
Artificial Intelligence

UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech workers got paid six-figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoard talent.
OpenAI

People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Bloomberg, there's a man out there who's beaten Roulette, no computer required — and all he says it took was a little practice. Easy!
Future Society

A Math and Physics Savant Reportedly Figured Out How to Beat Roulette

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Australian mayor may sue OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated defamation, after the AI chatbot told users that he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
OpenAI

OpenAI Threatened With Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Defamation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apparently all but abandoned dead-eyed, lifeless metaverse avatar as he focuses on Meta's AI shift.
Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse as Shiny New Toy Appears

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If we can't find a way to cap what this economist calls Greedflation? Capitalism, he says, might have just about run its course.
Future Society

Economist Warns That Capitalism May Be Ending

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass for deep-space missions, all with the help of lab-engineered bacteria.
Off-World

Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.
Drones

Drone Video Captures Furious Battle Between Orcas and Gray Whales

By Maggie Harrison Dupré