More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 8)

In a new essay, Oxford researchers argue that scientists should abstain from using text-generating AI tools as research aids.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Warn That AI Threatens Science Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA-funded researchers found that deep space travel might inflict long-lasting erectile dysfunction symptoms on male astronauts.

Scientists Have Bad News for Astronauts’ Genitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter.

Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI's board reportedly offered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — a former OpenAI employee — the CEO gig.

OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nothing Chats was taken down less than 24 hours after researchers discovered that the system was plagued with egregious privacy issues.

App That Turned Android’s Texts Blue Taken Down After Researchers Discover Something Horrible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber, Elon Musk is an absentee CEO — and meanwhile, his antisemitism is destroying the company.

Longtime Tesla Investor Says Elon Musk Has Effectively Stepped Aside as CEO

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report says that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's high-dollar side projects might have been the reason for his firing.

This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A dead star is still emitting powerful flares of blue light — a fascinating discovery offering a glimpse into a rare type of star death.

Dead Star Springs Back to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Did you do climate change? If so, ExxonMobil's CEO is out to find you. And while he works on that, he thinks you should worry less about oil.

Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The ongoing presidential campaign in Argentina is packed with enough chaos as it is — and now, AI has found its way into the mix.

Artificial Intelligence

Argentinian Presidential Candidate Uses AI-Generated Campaign Poster That Gives Him Gruesome Thumb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This week, Elon Musk openly expressed support for the "Great Replacement" theory. Rabbis are reminding us of the conspiracy's deadly past.

Rabbis Warn That Elon Musk Is Spreading the Type of Antisemitism “That Leads to Massacres”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Documents have revealed that the federal government has absolutely no idea how many civilians have been hit by Cruise's driverless vehicles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Government Unsure How Many Pedestrians Have Been Hit by Self-Driving Cars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A smartphone startup called Nothing will launch Nothing Chats, a messaging service that turns green texts into blue-bubbles iMessages.

Rejoice, Peasants! New App Turns Android Messages Blue in iMessage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study pitting human children against large language models in basic reasoning problems revealed AIs to have one big blind spot: innovation.

Artificial Intelligence

In New Experiment, Young Children Destroy AI at Basic Tasks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, Humane's AI Pin is the one in the hot seat.

Artificial Intelligence

That Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Civitai, a LoRA model-sharing platform funded in part by a16z, is incentivizing users to make deepfakes of real people — celebrity or not.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Platform Has a “Bounties” System for Creating Deepfakes of Regular People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."

Artificial Intelligence

AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Data is the vital force of large AI models, and thus of the industry itself. But it's also a finite resource — and companies could run out.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Linda Yaccarino regrets that she was not able to use her boss Elon Musk's wildly vulgar AI chatbot, Grok, to give her kids the "talk."

Artificial Intelligence

Twitter CEO Says She Wishes Elon Musk’s AI Would Talk About Sex With Her Kids

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI therapist, designed to pick up on emotional cues and offer emotional support. How does that make you feel?

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Therapy App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.

Science & Energy

New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's first DevDay was jam-packed with updates and announcements. But according to CEO Sam Altman, we've yet to scratch the AI surface.

Sam Altman Says What OpenAI’s Secretly Working on Will Make Today’s AI Seem “Quaint”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Natalie Tien, Sam Bankman-Fried's former assistant, is defending her old boss — but is also wondering if it's just Stockholm syndrome.

SBF’s Former Assistant Says He Was Like a Little Boy Who Made a Huge Mistake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new paper suggests that marathon runners' bodies might turn to the myelin sheath as a mid-race energy source.

Neuroscience and Brain

Marathon Runners’ Bodies Appear to Be Devouring Brain Tissue, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The plight of Tesla's beleaguered Cybertruck continues as social media videos show three of the vehicles struggling to drive off-road.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Struggles to Drive Up Steep Dirt Road

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It turns out that former President Barack Obama had a heavy hand in crafting current President Joe Biden's AI framework.

Artificial Intelligence

Obama Has Secretly Been Working on AI for Biden

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The founder and two top executives of the meme coin SafeMoon have been accused of pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars in customer funds.

Execs of Top Meme Coin Charged With Spending Customers’ Money on Luxury Cars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As part of his vision for turning Twitter into an "everything app," billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to launch dating features.

Elon Musk Wants to Turn Twitter Into a Dating App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bolstering future deep space ambitions, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station showed off their space-cultivated veggies.

Chinese Astronauts Harvest Space-Grown Lettuce and Tomatoes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Robin Witt, who helped build NASA's Artemis I rocket, was living her dream. She says that Florida's anti-trans laws cut that dream short.

Anti-Trans Laws Force Engineer to Quit Job Helping NASA With Moon Missions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-powered "bespoke smoothie shop" called BetterBlends marketed itself as "the most personalized restaurant, ever." It lasted three weeks.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Smoothie Shop Goes Out of Business Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In case you weren't existentially worried about AI-developed bioweapons, your fears may not be entirely unwarranted.

Artificial Intelligence

Biden Terrified AI Will be Used to Create Bioweapons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! The Juno spacescraft captured a spooky image of a grimacing "face" in Jupiter's clouds.

Behold This Scary Face in the Clouds of Jupiter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At first glance, Biden's executive order on AI feels thorough — but a closer look shows more promises than firm regulation or requirements.

Artificial Intelligence

Joe Biden’s Executive Order on AI Is Expansive, But Vague

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has made big moves with its Orion spacecraft, which will soon undergo rigorous testing in anticipation of the Artemis II flight.

NASA Is Making Huge Progress on Crewed Moon Capsule

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FAA has cleared Google cofounder Sergey Brin's 400-foot airship, dubbed the Pathfinder 1, for test flights in California.

Google Cofounder’s Airship Cleared for Flight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI doesn't have to be AGI-level smart to take control of our feeble human minds.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Learning “Superhuman Persuasion”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says that because he wasn't a coder, he wasn't sure what was going on with that alleged "back door."

SBF Says He Had No Idea “What Was Happening” Because He “Wasn’t Much of a Programmer”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is here to let everyone know that her boss rocks, X rocks, and she's doing just great. OK!

Twitter CEO Says Everything’s Totally Fine Actually, Thanks for Asking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI is arguing that ChatGPT is only a drafting tool, and thus can't be held legally responsible for any hallucinations it spits out.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Unsafe image content detected": Microsoft's Bing Image Creator often refuses to generate images of women.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing’s AI Refuses to Generate Photorealistic Images of Women, Saying They’re “Unsafe”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new atomic study of an Apollo 17-era Moon crystal suggests that the Moon formed roughly 40 million years earlier than previously thought.

NASA Surprised by What It Found Studying Ancient Moon Crystal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anaconda co-founder and CEO Peter Wang predicts that books will soon be replaced by AI-generated, interactive content trips dubbed "thunks."

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Guy Says Books Will Be Replaced by AI-Powered “Thunks”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, a 52-year-old centibillionaire, offered this weekend to pay Wikipedia one billion dollars to change its name to Dickipedia.

Elon Musk Is Now Bullying Wikipedia

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold, the transformational power of generative AI technology: generating photorealistic images of lil' tykes gleefully smoking cigs.

OpenAI Image Generator Draws Pictures of Children Smoking Cigarettes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Kendall Jenner AI Recommends Other Tequilas Over Hers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.

Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's week three of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, and legal experts aren't optimistic about his chances.

Legal Experts Say SBF Is in Deep Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Meta's AI-powered Tom Brady horcrux, Colin Kaepernick just isn't good enough to play in the NFL. Oh, yeah, and he's "drama."

Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He “Ain’t Good Enough” to Play in the NFL

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.

Science & Energy

China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette — but according to some who have used the meeting bots, the AIs don't always understand nuance.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ketamine is still widely unregulated as a therapy, meaning that buying "prescriptions" online is pretty much just buying drugs.

Health & Medicine

FDA Warns That a Lot of “Ketamine Therapy” Seems to Just Be Partying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.

Science & Energy

Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space Force leaders have forbidden their Guardians from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT on government devices.

Space Force Gets Scared, Pauses All Use of Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Add cashing out $150 million in foreign bribes — and very weird plots involving Thai prostitutes — to the list of FTX uncanniness.

FTX Witness Says SBF Sent Chinese Officials $150 Million In Bribes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Regularly gettin' down to some quality hanky panky may go a long way to protect aging humans against cognitive decline.

Scientists Find That Getting Naughty Helps Protect Against Cognitive Decline

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Caroline Ellison told the court yesterday that back in 2021, Alameda Research already had an alleged $2.7 billion hole in its balance sheet.

Alameda Secretly Had Value of Negative $2.7 Billion, Insider Tells Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the "Godfather of AI," is worried that AI might take over the world one day.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Admits He Fears His Creation Could “Take Over From Humanity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is on pause for the foreseeable future following her disastrous Code interview.

Twitter CEO Says That Due to Reasons, She Has to Cancel Appearance Defending Elon Musk’s Deranged Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A cat is said to have jumped on a VA technician's keyboard, deleting a trove of US government-held medical data.

VA Department Staffer Blames Cat Jumping on Keyboard for Server Outage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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