More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 15)

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

Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool, but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. To them, it's old news.

OpenAI Confused by Why People Are So Impressed With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While it surely won't be fun for any of Sam Bankman-Fried's (SBF) friends to take the stand against him, for Nashad Singh, it might just sting the worst.

FTX Cofounder Who Was Allegedly in Groupchat Called “Wirefraud” Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI is for-profit, closed-source, and in bed with a legacy tech giant, despite its non-profit, closed-source roots. Can we trust them with building AGI?

OpenAI Seems Like a Very Sleazy Company to Be Creating World-Changing AGI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Good news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help them get dates: when you get to the altar, the chatbot will take care of your wedding vows, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Romantic! Wedding Startup Wants You to Write Your Vows with GPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nothing will make you feel more patriotic than this Twitter thread of mullet-headed US presidents, generated with the help of Midjourney's AI.

Artificial Intelligence

America Trembles as AI Generates Every US President With a Mullet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new lawsuit against the NFL alleges that the league keeps a massive database of lewd shots of women — both cheerleaders of fans — captured at games.

Lawsuit Accuses NFL of Compiling Huge Database of Lewd Photos of Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took to Twitter to share — seemingly in earnest — a photo of a mythological Mayan elf.

Science & Energy

President of Mexico Posts Photo of What He Claims Is a Mythological Creature

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for.

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.

Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.

Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.

Largest Publisher of Scientific Journals Cracks Down on Scientists Listing ChatGPT as Coauthor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The brown basilisk, known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on water, is expanding its "army." Scientists are ringing the alarm bells.

Science & Energy

Florida Scientists Concerned About Army of Invasive “Jesus Christ” Lizards

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Spotify just announced that it will soon be leveraging OpenAI-made artificial intelligence users with an "AI DJ in your pocket."

Spotify Launching OpenAI-Powered “DJ” That Talks About Songs Between Tracks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The OpenAI-built ChatGPT will have you receiving prestigious awards, writing bestselling novels, and more — even if those accolades are nonexistent.

When ChatGPT Writes Bios for People, They’re Littered With Fabrications

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

She thinks the app Gas, which just launched a paid tier, is "intrinsically problematic," preying on teenage insecurity as a means of generating profit.

Expert Warns That App Where You Can Only Say Nice Things Could Have Dark Consequences

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apple has made breakthroughs in a confidential project that would transform its Apple Watches into noninvasive glucose monitors, Bloomberg reports.

Prosthetics and Devices

Secret Apple Project Tracks Blood Sugar Using Apple Watch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the company's AI war woes (spoiler: it's losing) build, CNBC reports that Google has officially commanded its employees to start sharing desks.

Google Instructs Workers to Share Desks to Cut Costs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just weeks after pressing pause on publishing AI-generated content, CNET owner Red Ventures appears poised to greenlight its AI program once again.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Owner Preparing to Restart Publishing AI-Generated Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

But according to a pair of experts, the frothy hype cycle surrounding chatbot AI systems is doomed to be what investors fear most: a bubble.

Artificial Intelligence

Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

From hobbyists in Northern Illinois to the guys at Make Sunsets who want to dim the sun, it appears that balloon dudes across the US are living in fear.

Science & Energy

Guy Trying to Dim Sun Frets That US Will Shoot Down His Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The proposed NASA probe would "explore how Uranus formed; how much it migrated after formation; the planet's interior structure," and much more.

NASA Scientist Calls for Exploration of Uranus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.

Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A friendlier, mid-pandemic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly out — and a far more cutthroat "old school Zuck" is allegedly back in.

Lord Have Mercy on Facebook as Zuck Goes Back to Tha Old Zuck

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NIBBB hasn't officially pointed fingers, but the broader ballooning community seems convinced that the Pentagon is to blame for the missing pico balloon.

Group of Dudes Fear the Pentagon May Have Shot Down Their Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Quick pulse-check on Microsoft's Bing AI: it's already self-generating misinformation and launching into BS rage attacks against journalists. Cool stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Flies Into Unhinged Rage at Journalist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Chips Like Neuralink Cause Strange Cognitive Changes, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.

Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OkCupid has already started to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into its online dating service, utilizing the tech to generate matchmaking prompts for its users.

OkCupid Using ChatGPT to Make Online Dating Even More Robotic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering if former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who's currently on house arrest awaiting criminal and civil trial, did something wrong? He is, too.

Sam Bankman-Fried Ponders Whether He Might Have Done Anything Wrong

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

French DJ and producer David Guetta recently treated festival-goers to a new track, featuring rapper Eminem. Just one thing: the feature was AI-generated.

Artificial Intelligence

David Guetta Faked Eminem’s Vocals Using AI for New Song

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bloomberg has decided to chastise the lab-grown meat industry's failure to address cancer concerns — because of the fact that there... aren't... any.

Bloomberg Shredded for Amazingly Stupid Article About Fake Meat and Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you were on Elon Musk-owned Twitter at all yesterday evening, you may have noticed: it was broken. Unsurprisingly, things apparently weren't chill at HQ.

Panicked Elon Musk Asked Twitter Employees to Stop Building New Features as Site’s Infrastructure Crumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire climate advocate Bill Gates will do whatever it takes to save the planet — as long as it doesn't mean giving up his private jet.

Bill Pledges to Keep Flying Private Jet While Speaking Out Against Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is warning netizens to watch out for AI-generated content regarding "health, civic, or financial information." So, you know, the important things.

Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google now has a ten percent stake in Anthropic, the company behind a powerful AI chatbot called Claude. The AI arms race marches on.

Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to the US Space Force, a mysterious Russian satellite broke apart in orbit early last month, leaving at least 85 pieces of space debris behind.

Mysterious Russian Satellite Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Former Facebook Exec Says AI Will Soon Simulate the Human Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is often wrong, and yet it's somehow always certain, even tending to double down on incorrect answers. Sound familiar?

ChatGPT Is Just an Automated Mansplaining Machine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The molecules kill some types of fungi "so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves," said the lead author of the study.

Science & Energy

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In fresh ChatGPT hell, it turns out that it's wildly easy to use the viral OpenAI chatbot to write convincing defamation. Just don't ask for it in English.

ChatGPT Will Gladly Spit Out Defamation, as Long as You Ask for It in a Foreign Language

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, folks at OpenAI had some "trepidation" about taking their AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to market. Makes sense.

Head of ChatGPT Admits She Had Concerns About Releasing It Publicly

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Northern male quolls, endangered Australian marsupials, are dying prematurely as a result of sleepless quests for sex — and scientists are worried.

Furious Marsupial So Thirsty For Sex That It’s Dying, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Verge is reporting that the "Hustle Bros" — you know, the grown men with the very loud YouTube thumbnails — have discovered OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Scammers Are Already Convincing Idiots They Can Get Rich Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After many months pissing off stakeholders, Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally made them happy — by saying that he's leaning into AI.

Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Lean Hard Into AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's ChatGPT is reportedly the fastest-growing app in human history, reaching an estimated 100 million active monthly users in just the two months.

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT’s Explosive Popularity Makes It the Fastest-Growing App in Human History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dr. David Peterson argues that if we are indeed living in a computer simulation of reality, we can probably hack it — by submitting feature requests.

A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FCC has cleared space combat startup True Anomaly for a test launch of two "hunter" satellites, built specifically for space warfare.

SpaceX to Launch “Hunter” Satellites for Targeting Rival Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to one Harvard researcher, if we don't put a lid on the US-China AI arms race soon, civilization as we know it could end up paying a hefty price.

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Researcher Warns AI Arms Race Could Destroy Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Something is wrong," Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening, in response to Twitter influencers' complaints about their virality numbers.

Elon Musk Sets His Twitter Account to Private

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After five years allegedly on the lam, Dr. Ruja Ignatova — the infamous crypto ponzi scheme scam artist accused of stealing billions — might be back.

“Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing Billions Suddenly Surfaces

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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