More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 16)

Silicon Valley darling and ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly hired roughly 1,000 contractors with the goal of improving its text-to-code AI, Codex.

OpenAI Reportingly Hiring “Army” of Devs to Train AI to Replace Entry-Level Coders

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mining giant Rio Tinto misplaced a "highly radioactive" object along a Western Australian highway, several outlets report. If it helps, they're "sorry."

Science & Energy

Miners Say “Sorry” for Losing Highly Radioactive Object Along Highway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeff Bezos' Amazon is reportedly planning to launch a web3 initiative this spring, where customers can play "crypto games" to win NFTs.

Business Geniuses at Amazon Hard at Work on Hot New Idea: NFTs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a scathing new report, Twitter's new Head of Trust and Safety has been breaking Twitter's rules on the whims of Elon Musk and his many feuds.

Leaked Messages Seem to Show Elon Musk Using Twitter to Punish His Enemies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The city of Amsterdam just unveiled an underwater bike parking garage for the city's cyclers. It's beautiful, efficient, and further disincentives cars.

Advanced Transport

We’re in Awe of Amsterdam’s Huge Underwater Bike Parking Garage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of an unusually mammalian structure on our dusty red neighbor. Definitely looks like a bear.

Internet Erupts as NASA Spots Cartoon Bear on Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech centimillionaire and middle-aged human man Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payment behemoth Braintree, wants to be 18 again. Biologically.

Eccentric Wealthy Guy Spends $2 Million Per Year Staving Off Aging

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder has announced that his robot lawyer's first live case has been postponed, alleging that prosecutors have threatened to jail him.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a new iceberg in town, freshly minted off of Antarctica's 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf. And at 600-square-miles, it's something to behold.

Science & Energy

Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City Breaks Off Antarctica

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To cope with the challenges that modern human memory faces, tech journalist Shubham Agarwal decided to "outsource" his memory to assistive AI called Heyday.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy “Outsources” His Own Memory to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the fallout from CNET's scandalous experiment with AI generated articles continues, a big Red Ventures rival has made its stance known.

Artificial Intelligence

Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of knitwear that tricks facial recognition software into registering you as an animal.

Facial recognition

Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gautam Adani, the world's third richest person, says that he's experienced "some addiction" to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. To each their own.

Artificial Intelligence

World’s Third Richest Person Says He’s Developed “Addiction” to ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Substack author Sam Bankman-Fried's excel docs — delivered by way of newsletter — FTX US is solvent. The new FTX CEO says otherwise.

Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam. Queue yet another existential crisis!

Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence stands to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, experts say.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" has been crowned as the world's largest known toad. But sadly, our hefty heroine's story has already come to an untimely end.

Science & Energy

Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some right-wingers believe that in the case of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, AI bias moderation has gone too far — the machine, they say, is woke.

Conservatives Furious, Claiming ChatGPT Has “Gone Woke”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Considering that the zombie fungus that infects human brains in The Last of Us is real, and currently zombifies insects, it's worth asking.

Neuroscience and Brain

Bad News: the Horrific Zombie Fungus in “The Last of Us” Is Real

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

TikTok employees reporetdly have access to a secret "heating" button. Hit that button, and content gets boosted — unbeknownst to users.

Employees at TikTok Apparently Have a Secret Button That Can Make Anything Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Desperate Twitter Auctioning Off Its Used Office Supplies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI chatbot, Historical Figures, simulates conversations with famous leaders. Just one thing: every famous person in history is perfect. Noted.

Artificial Intelligence

AI of Andrew Jackson, Who Literally Owned Slaves, Insists That He Wasn’t Racist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Any and all CNET stories about AI are marked with a very odd editor's note that lets readers know that elsewhere on the site, AI is writing articles.

Artificial Intelligence

After Scandal, CNET Adds Strange Disclaimer to Human-Written Articles About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Content moderation is horrifying work, but Silicon Valley — this time, OpenAI — keeps taking advantage of cheap labor in the Global South to do it.

OpenAI Apparently Paid People in the Developing World $2/Hour to Look at the Most Disturbing Content Imaginable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We regret to inform you that, sadly, AmazonSmile — which allowed Amazon customers to give a portion of purchase proceeds to charity — is coming to an end.

Amazon Kills Off Feature That Let Customers Give Sales Proceeds to Charity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Bankman-Fried's friend and colleagues turned on him to save themselves. So, his parents have apparently given him a dog — who doubles as security.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Reportedly Got Him a Dog So He Wouldn’t Be So Lonely

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to the people actually already working — or attempting to work — in the Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse, there are a lot of issues.

People Forced to “Go to Work” in the Metaverse Say It’s a Complete Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts found that language-modeling AIs like ChatGPT will likely make it easier and more efficient than ever to generate massive amounts of misinformation.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn of Nightmare Internet Filling With Infinite AI-Generated Propaganda

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Unchecked development and climate change are coming to a head in Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has been cut off from Scottsdale's water supply.

Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has a new text-to-speech AI that can clone your voice, tone and all, from just a quick three-second snippet of audio. It's called VALL-E.

Artificial Intelligence

New Microsoft AI Can Clone Your Voice From Three Seconds of Audio

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

JPMorgan says it was tricked to pay $175 million for a startup that had fabricated millions of users. File under: nothing's real anymore!

JPMorgan Says Startup Tricked It Into an Acquisition by Cooking Up Millions of Fake Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There already appears to be an generative AI-powered Substack, and it already appears to have word-for-word plagiarized human work. Cheers.

Artificial Intelligence

Viral AI-Written Article Busted as Plagiarized

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has been accused of intentionally shadowbanning a journalist — just after they reported on a pileup caused by a self-driving Tesla.

Journalist Critical of Elon Musk Allegedly Shadowbanned on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jimmy "Mr. Beast" Donaldson, the youth-beloved YouTuber, thinks that we'll live for a few hundred years. At the very least, a could 130 or so.

Science & Energy

Mr. Beast Hopeful That Science Will Let Him Live Several Hundred Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The rumors are true: Sam Bankman-Fried, currently on house arrest in California, has a Substack newsletter now. And according to him, nothing's his fault!

Sam Bankman-Fried, Bored on House Arrest, Starts a Substack

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers at The University of Cambridge have reportedly built a solar powered machine that transforms CO2 and plastics into sustainable fuel and more.

Solar Powered Machine Turns CO2 and Waste Plastic Into Valuable Fuel

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Iranian state is likely using facial recognition as a tool of tracking down and penalizing the women for rejecting the state's hijab law.

Iran Apparently Using Facial Recognition to Catch Women Breaking Hijab Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In new bankruptcy court filings reviewed by Insider, FTX reportedly unveiled exactly how much equity quarterback Tom Brady had in the exchange.

Tom Brady Apparently Lost an Ungodly Amount of Money in the FTX Crash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Introducing: Mech "The Bot" Johnson, a human-driven, 9,000-pound, 13-foot-tall, 18-foot-wide robot "bouncer," deployed by a Las Vegas strip club during CES.

Robots and Machines

Strip Club Gets Huge Exoskeleton Suit to Turn Bouncers Into Hulking Behemoths

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.

Neuroscience and Brain

People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SBF reportedly used FTX money to support a lavish lifestyle for himself and his inner circle, spending tens of millions on luxury housing, hotels, and food.

Sam Bankman-Fried Reportedly Lived in Astonishing Opulence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Richard Branson says that Elon Musk surprised him in his kitchen at 2am, hours before Branson's first trip to Almost Space with Virgin Galactic.

Richard Branson Says Elon Musk Showed Up at His House at 2am

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

You may be shocked to discover that Facebook once tried to build a railroad. The project failed terribly, leaving Bay Area communites hanging.

Facebook Tried to Open a Railroad, Failed Miserably

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite the VC gold rush, this expert is arguing that hype — as opposed to firm data and proven results — is in the generative AI industry driving seat.

Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning Expert Says GPT Startups May Be in for a Very Rude Awakening

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CRISPR, like many other powerful and complex tools, has… a bit of a PR problem. Is that holding it back from broader integration into health therapies?

This CRISPR Researcher Says Gene Editing Isn’t Playing God

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Beyond the new Louisiana porn law's overt data risks and air of surveillance, the state has another serious problem: the so-called blockade doesn't work.

There’s a Ridiculously Easy Way to Bypass Louisiana’s New Porn Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consciousness is one of the biggest questions within the field of artificial intelligence. To some it's science fiction; to others, it's a goal.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say They’re Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A startup has developed a pillow that they say detects and corrects snoring while a user is sleeping, no mouthguard or breathing machine required.

Startup Shows Off Pillow That Detects Snoring and Automatically Adjusts Your Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in China have successfully been able to restore normal erections in pigs with injured penises by way of bionic tissue transplant.

Biotech Penile Implants Let Pigs Get Erections Again

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new Louisiana porn law impacts the providers, as well as their performers — and some of the performers are starting to speak out.

Adult Performers React to Law Requiring Photo ID to Watch Online Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Toilet paper is a pretty baseline office ask. But apparently, those remaining at Elon Musk-owned Twitter's New York HQ are privy to no such luxury.

Twitter Employees Beg Elon Musk for Toilet Paper as Horrid Stench Seeps From Bathroom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering how much weight Tesla's still-unreleased cybertruck can pull? Apparently, the answer is "near infinite."

Tesla Mocked for Claiming Cybertruck Can Pull “Near Infinite Mass”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Police have made an arrest in the University of Idaho murder case, using "public genealogy databases" to link the alleged killer's DNA to the crime scene.

Police Say They Used Genealogy Database to Arrest Idaho Murder Suspect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new porn access law went into effect in Louisiana, requiring that users prove their age with a government-issued ID if they want to access adult content.

New Louisiana Law Forces You to Upload ID to Watch Porn Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaires are funding immortality tech. And in theory, such techology would allow those billionaires to compound their wealth and power forever. Gulp.

Experts Worried Elderly Billionaires Will Become Immortal, Compounding Wealth Forever

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On New Years' Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to discuss the mass extinction crisis. No one had any good news.

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed into cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football. According to some reports, the league wanted to play on.

NFL Accused of Trying to Continue Game After Player Suffered Cardiac Arrest on Field

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese protest content posted to Twitter was impossible to find due to bots, ultimately rendering Elon Musk's Twitter an ineffective ally to protestors.

An Overwhelming Number of Porn Bot Accounts “Drowned Out” Chinese Protest Content on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

George Hotz, the infamous hacker-turned-entrepeneur-turned-Twitter-intern, just left his internship role at Twitter as a direct result of Elon Musk's chaos.

Even Twitter’s Intern Just Resigned in Disappointment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a seemingly chaotic court hearing on Monday, SBF "leaned back with his eyes closed" and had to be "awakened by a court official," according to Reuters.

Sam Bankman-Fried Caught Either Sleeping or Resting His Eyes in Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former president Donald Trump absolutely grotesque NFT "trading cards," which sold for $99 each, were allegedly plagiarized. Cheers.

It Turns Out Trump’s Wretched NFTs Were Plagiarized

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite what Elon Musk claims, police reportedly can't seem to find a link between ElonJet and an alleged stalking incident that occurred last week.

It Turns Out Elon Musk’s Stalking Incident Had Nothing to Do With ElonJet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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