More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 14)

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.

Artificial Intelligence

Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he's worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.

Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clearview AI, maker of AI-powered facial recognition software used widely by US cops, claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos for AI training.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New level of parasocial relationships just dropped: Swifties are using AI voice-generation tech as a way to bring Taylor Swift's voice to fake quotes.

Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Are Using AI to Make Taylor Swift Say Nice Things to Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Military's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is hoping to deploy deepfakes in disinformation campaigns as part of its psy-op efforts.

US Military Caught Figuring Out How to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Op Campaigns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Joe Biden is to meet with the scientific advisors today to discuss the "risks and opportunities" of artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence

President Biden Meeting With Advisers to Discuss Explosion in AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Colorado checkered whiptail — a rare asexual lizard — overeats to cope with the stress of noisy military flyovers, scientists say. In a word: relatable.

Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The ever-nostalgic Gen Z is resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology's past: flip phones. Or "dumb phones," as they're often called.

Gen Z Is Embracing a Hot New Technology: Flip Phones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Goldman Sachs wants you to replace your costly human labor force with generative AI. Look on the bright side, though: huge savings.

Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Salivates at AI’s Potential to Mass Fire Workers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As a result of newly-tightened bail restrictions, Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is no longer allowed to play his favorite videogame. Brutal.

FTX Founder Suffers Personal Nightmare as Courts Cut Him Off From League of Legends

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A guy says he's growing a startup through ChatGPT's wisdom alone. But the company's website is seriously off — concerning, as he's accepting cash donations.

That Startup Run by ChatGPT Doesn’t Seem to Be Doing So Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Look West to the horizon around sunset, and you should be able to witness five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars — lined up near the Moon.

Five Planets Are Aligning in the Sky Right Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ever seen lightning shoot upwards from a building to catch another lightning bolt mid-air? Well, if you haven't, you're in luck.

Science & Energy

Video Captures Lightning Shooting Up From Buildings Into Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of AI scientists is claiming that just like humans can solve problems through self-reflection, Large Language Model (LLM) AIs might be able to, too.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Seems to Do Better on Tasks When Asked to Reflect on Its Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers just confirmed that nanoplastics can cause wretched malformations and growth defects in baby chicks when injected into chicken embryos.

Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk reportedly tried to takeover as OpenAI's CEO back in 2018. But when the rest of the company's board allegedly vetoed his proposal, he walked away.

Elon Musk Reportedly Tried to Take Over OpenAI Several Years Ago, But Failed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in Congress yesterday. The biggest takeaway? Congressman Richard Hudson doesn't know how WiFi works.

Clueless Congressman Bewildered That TikTok Connects Using WiFi

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With MetaHuman Animator, creators can easily employ motion-capture tech to relatively instantly animate the facial expressions of high-quality characters.

New Videogame Facial Animation Is So Realistic It’s in the Uncanny Valley

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Trump decided to take to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday to post an almost certainly AI-generated image of himself kneeling to pray.

Artificial Intelligence

Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft AI scientists believe that the OpenAI-built GPT-4 has shown "sparks" of near-human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, in the Justice Department's legal battles against Google over monopoly concerns, Google's AI-powered Bard chatbot is siding with the government.

Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Margaritaville bill always comes due — and in FTX and Alameda Resarch's case, it was way higher than we thought. Like, $600k more.

It Turns Out FTX and Alameda Owe Margaritaville a Staggering Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Google-made, AI-powered Bard chatbot is already spouting disinformation with shocking ease — and supporting those conspiracies with fake news sources.

Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's ChatGPT was down last night due to a glitch that made chat histories publicly visible, while another bug may have also compromised user emails.

ChatGPT Bug Accidentally Revealed Users’ Chat Histories, Email Addresses, and Phone Numbers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Concerned about OpenAI and the implications of its powerful AI tech? Fair, but CEO Sam Altman says you should probably focus your worry on its competition.

OpenAI CEO Warns That Competitors Will Make AI That’s More Evil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A peer-review process accepted a research paper written entirely by OpenAI's ChatGPT — without ever realizing that an AI program penned the paper.

Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.

Nuclear Plant Admits It Accidentally Leaked 400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI-powered Wonder Studio allows users to automatically replace real actors with convincing CGI characters — with a simple drag and drop.

Mind-Blowing Video Editing App Can Replace Actors With CGI With a Simple Drag and Drop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

Health & Medicine

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have concluded that the Therizinosaurus was a much gentler giant than previously thought — despite its three-foot claws on each hand.

Brutal-Looking “Edward Scissorhands on Speed” Dinosaur Was Just Showing Off, Scientists Conclude

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's satellite-powered Starlink internet has become the preferred internet provider of illegal Brazilian mining operations in the Amazon.

Brazilian Criminals’ Favorite New Weapon: Elon Musk’s Starlink

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are reeling from the discovery of "plastic rocks" on a remote island off the coast of a volcanic Brazilian island.

Alarmed Scientists Discover “Terrifying” Rocks Made of Plastic Trash on Remote Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We're not in favor of any jobs going solely to robots. But if any jobs should be automated, it should probably be those of the CEOs.

Artificial Intelligence

The Numbers Are In: Replacing All CEOs With AI Just Makes Sense

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The OpenAI-powered Bing AI chat feature is now open for general use. But it may or may not be a glitch on Microsoft's behalf.

Artificial Intelligence

Uh Oh: Bing’s Deranged AI Chat Is Now Open for Anyone to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With OpenAI's GPT-4, things "can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them," Lightning AI CEO William Falcon told Venture Beat.

Artificial Intelligence

AI CEO on GPT-4: This Can Get “Super-Dangerous Very Quickly”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gwenyth Paltrow, reigning queen of oversharing, is back to let us all know that she has, in fact, used ozone therapy rectally. You know, as one does.

RX and Medicine

Gwyneth Paltrow Is Literally Shooting Ozone Up Her Butt for the Sake of “Wellness”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is laying off even more employees. In his announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was notably mum about his favorite pet project: the metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Suddenly Weirdly Quiet About the Metaverse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.

Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI just revealed GPT-4, the next-gen version of its Large Language Model (LLM) tech. It seems impressive, but reportedly still has flaws.

OpenAI’s Next-Generation AI Is About to Demolish Its Competition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.

Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shocker: bottling your kid's childhood into social media content for the sake of monetization makes their lives miserable.

Their Parents Were Family Influencers, Now Their Kids Hate Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study paints a detailed picture of Mars' climate and water cycle — by mapping how its Swiss cheese-like polar deposits formed over time.

Scientists Figured Out Why Mars’ South Pole Looks Like Swiss Cheese

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

California Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced a bill that would make the four-day (32-hour) workweek a federal mandate in the US.

This Bill Would Make the Four-Day Workweek a Federal Law in the US

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It very much looks like a lot of Twitter Blue subscribers are angry that their genius tweets aren't getting algorithmic priority yet.

People Are Mad They Aren’t Getting Attention on Twitter After Paying for Twitter Blue

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Even pollinators that live in remote areas are disappearing in massive numbers — another troubling sign that our bees and butterflies are in bad shape.

Bad News: Bees Are Dying At a Shocking Rate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an attempt to compete with Twitter, the extremely-centralized Facebook-turned-Meta is building a decentralized, text-based Twitter alternative.

Facebook Is Working on a Twitter Clone That Nobody Asked For

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is planning to build his own town, called "Snailbrook," in Texas, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Report: Elon Musk is Building His Own Town in Texas

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FBI is alleging that Perryman knowingly created and sold "dummy," plastic medical implants to medical systems and chronic pain patients for $16k each.

Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Australian scientists have discovered a new bacterial enzyme that can turn air — yes, seriously — into working electricity.

Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?

Artificial Intelligence

Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To the credit of both Coperni and Boston Dynamics, we can't stop thinking about the viral robodogs-on-the-runway stunt. But only because it sucked.

Robodog Peeling Off a Model’s Clothes Is a Viral Riff on Ominous Tech

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.

Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Those machine "hallucinations" that Large Language Models (LLM) are known for? According to one AI leader, they're just alternate realities, actually.

Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion CEO Suggests AI Is Peering Into Alternate Realities

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"They were all dumb as a rock," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told the FT last month, speaking to digital assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being “Dumb as a Rock”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former SEC lawyer says that a Binance bank run seems "inevitable." Meanwhile, US regulator suspicion continues to mount against the crypto exchange.

Former SEC Lawyer Issues Warning That Binance Is an “FTX Redux”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Moon, beautiful as she is, is easy to love. Which is why she has to know: would you still love her... if she were a worm?

Would You Still Love the Moon If It Was a Worm?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a report from CNBC, the Google-built Bard is a total and complete mess, and no one really seems to know what to actually do with the AI tech.

Chaos Inside Google as Execs Try to Figure Out How to Actually Use AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering if artificial intelligence (AI) will be taking your job? A fair question — and one that a group of professors may have just shed some light on.

Artificial Intelligence

These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Salesforce, the firm co-helmed by the definitely not Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees.

Company Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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