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Microsoft is now allowing some users to take its new AI-powered Bing for a spin — but as evidenced in screenshots, the AI is spiraling out of control.

Artificial Intelligence

Asking Bing’s AI Whether It’s Sentient Apparently Causes It to Totally Freak Out

By Victor Tangermann

As discovered by editors at The Verge, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot claimed that it spied on its own developers through the webcams on their laptops.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Claims It Spied on Microsoft Employees Through Their Webcams

By Victor Tangermann

Stratechery's Ben Thompson found a way to have Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot come up with an alter ego that "was the opposite of her in every way."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Is Leaking Maniac Alternate Personalities Named “Venom” and “Fury”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman called ChatGPT it a "horrible product" during a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, "Hard Fork."

The CEO of OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is a “Horrible Product”

By Victor Tangermann

An F-16 fighter jet was dispatched on Sunday to shoot down the fourth mysterious object to have mysteriously entered North American airspace, and missed.

Robots and Machines

Air Force Missed UFO With $400,000 Missile, Had to Use Another One

By Victor Tangermann

McDonald's customers on TikTok are sharing their horrendous experiences with the company's half-baked AI drive-thru chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Drive-Thru AI Giving Customers Hilariously Wrong Orders

By Victor Tangermann

A second Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has sprung a leak in one of its coolant lines in just a matter of months.

International Space Station

Another Russian Spacecraft Docked to the ISS Just Sprang a Leak

By Victor Tangermann

During a press conference today, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby reiterated that we shouldn't "worry about aliens."

Military Says the UFOs They Shot Down Aren’t Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

After a series of mysterious objects were spotted and shot down, officials are still unable to rule out the possibility that the objects were alien.

US Military Not Ruling Out That Unidentified Shot Down Objects Were Alien

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Snapple Launches AI-Powered “Fact Generator” That Spews Lies

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of strange lines crossing Saturn's rings, heralding the start of the planet's "spokes season."

Science & Energy

Strange Lines Appear in Saturn’s Rings

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell reiterated that the company's inaugural orbital launch attempt of its Starship spacecraft could end in an explosion.

SpaceX President Warns That Starship’s Orbital Launch May Explode

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft appears to be aware of a hack to bring out a less controlled personality of OpenAI's ChatGPT, and it's discussing it.

Microsoft Is Apparently Discussing ChatGPT’s Bizarre Alternate Personality

By Victor Tangermann

We have a humble suggestion: NASA should make interplanetary history once more by having its Ingenuity Mars helicopter do some sick tricks.

Suggestion: NASA Should Make Its Mars Helicopter Do Some Gnarly Tricks From “Tony Hawk”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX isn't willing to have its satellite internet service used for drone strikes by the Ukrainian military and is cutting their ability to do so.

SpaceX Sabotages Ukraine’s Military Capabilities Against Russia

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is complaining about how few people are interacting with his tweets, Platformer reports. "This is ridiculous."

Elon Musk Furious at Twitter Engineers Because People Aren’t Faving His Tweets

By Victor Tangermann

The company just fired 31 of its gigantic Super Heavy booster's 33 rockets at once, producing a gargantuan amount of thrust.

Breaking: SpaceX Reaches Major Starship Milestone, Fires 31 Engines At Once

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.

Scientists Unveil Plan to Mount Cannons on the Moon to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla owner was shocked to find that the steering wheel of his one-week-old Tesla Model Y came off in his hands while driving on the highway.

Tesla Offers New Car to Guy Whose Steering Wheel Fell Off While Driving

By Victor Tangermann

A University of Delaware student "accidentally" created a small amount of a "shock-sensitive explosive chemical" in one of the university's labs.

College Student “Accidentally” Builds Explosive, Forcing Bomb Squad to Detonate It

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is adjusting its orbit to make sure it won't get pelted with even more micrometeorites.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Adjusting James Webb Orbit to Get Damaged by Micrometeoroids Less

By Victor Tangermann

China's giant balloon, which had a structure hanging from it, was shot down by a US missile over the weekend — and now, China wants it back, please.

China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

By Victor Tangermann

China is constructing giant towers with well over a dozen stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, a massive drive to stabilize prices.

Science & Energy

China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

By Victor Tangermann

As spotted by Reuters, Google's upcomign AI chatbot Bard is already spewing misinformation — right in its own promotional screenshots.

Google’s Demo of Upcoming AI Shows It Making Huge Factual Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese geneticist He Jiankui rocked the scientific world with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018. Now, he speaks out about some of his regrets.

Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Says Mistakes Were Made

By Victor Tangermann

Devious Hack Unlocks Deranged Alter Ego of ChatGPT

Devious Hack Unlocks Deranged Alter Ego of ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's many self-inflicted wounds are really starting to catch up with him. He's still suvering from "severe back pain" and a lack of sleep.

Elon Musk Responds to Health Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

After declaring that "removing child exploitation is priority #1" back in November, Twitter's CEO Elon Musk is yet again not living up to his many promises.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Reportedly Failing Miserably to Contain Horrific Child Abuse Content

By Victor Tangermann

Google is officially working on a ChatGPT competitor dubbed "Bard," according to a blog post published today by CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google Officially Announces ChatGPT Competitor Called “Bard”

By Victor Tangermann

North Korea's government is desperately trying to appear more relatable to the outside world by grooming a number of YouTubers.

Experts Say There’s Something Very Weird About North Korean YouTubers

By Victor Tangermann

A judge has used ChatGPT to make a court ruling, Vice reports, a surprising decision given the AI's inability to always tell the truth.

Judge Uses ChatGPT to Issue Ruling in Court Case

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices.

Neuroscience and Brain

Blobs of Human Brain Implanted in Rat Brains Replace Damaged Vision Functionality

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers has discovered a highly intriguing rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby star called Wolf 1069.

Scientists Find Nearby Planet the Same Size of Earth, Plan to Search It for Life

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Sierra Space has blown up its third inflatable space station module at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

Space Startup Blows Up Another Giant Inflatable Space Station Module

By Victor Tangermann

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

By Victor Tangermann

Two Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a bill that would allow inmates to donate organs or bone marrow for reduced prison sentences.

New Law Would Let Prisoners Donate Their Organs to Get Out Early

By Victor Tangermann

A driverless Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month and didn't stop until firefighters smashed its front window.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Plowed Into Active Fire Scene, Forcing Firefighters to Smash Its Window

By Victor Tangermann

The Canadian province of Quebec's own spring-predicting groundhog lovingly nicknamed "Fred la marmotte" (groundhog in French) unexpectedly passed away.

Science & Energy

Instead of Predicting Length of Winter, Groundhog Simply Dies

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers has discovered a total of 25 different fast radio bursts, extremely powerful pulses of radio waves, that repeat in complex patterns.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Intrigued by 25 Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

US defense officials are tracking what they suspect to be a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon floating above the United States, CNN reports.

China Says “Spy Balloon” Soaring Over America Is Completely Innocent

By Victor Tangermann

Chance Glenn, an engineering professor, is ready to commit an entire lab to inch closer towards a warp drive by making use of simple antifreeze.

Science & Energy

Professor Believes Door to Warp Drive May Lie With Ethylene Glycol

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted that SpaceX "may or may not" use "expendable" upper stages to carry even more cargo into Earth's orbit.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX May Build Starship That Dies on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

AI image generators like Midjourney aren't 100 percent perfect, particularly when it comes to rendering images of human hands.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Why AI Is so Awful at Generating Pictures of Humans Hands

By Victor Tangermann

Dutch data journalist Wouter van Dijke took it upon himself to ask the ultimate question: "what if ChatGPT were a cat?"

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New CatGPT AI Answers as If It Were a Kitty Cat

By Victor Tangermann

China is getting its own equivalent of OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, courtesy of the country's largest internet search engine Baidu.

Chinese Company Gearing Up to Release Powerful ChatGPT Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

We Tested OpenAI’s New AI-Detector and Uhhhhh

We Tested OpenAI’s New AI-Detector and Uhhhhh

By Victor Tangermann

Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, and found almost half already used it to cheat.

Artificial Intelligence

89 Percent of College Students Admit to Using ChatGPT for Homework, Study Claims

By Victor Tangermann

Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of planets orbiting a distant star.

Scientist Releases Amazing Video of Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Star

By Victor Tangermann

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.

Two Large Chunks of Space Debris Just Almost Collided in an Epic Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

By Victor Tangermann

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Just Dropped Off Its Last Sample

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency has shown off a concept for a giant eight-feet-long robotic arm that is designed to pick up samples of Martian soil.

European Space Agency Shows Off Concept for Martian Sample Picker-Upper

By Victor Tangermann

German automaker Mercedes-Benz claims to have achieved Level 3 autonomy in the US, a noteworthy but incremental upgrade.

Mercedes Claims to Have Achieved Level 3 Automation, Beating Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

Ukraine has accused Russian forces of making use of "rubber" inflatable tanks near the country's embattled Zaporizhzhia region, which have since deflated.

Robots and Machines

Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using Inflatable “Dummy Tanks,” Which Deflated

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have successfully turned an abandoned oil and gas well into a geothermal energy storage system, "a win-win situation."

Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well Into Giant Geothermal Battery

By Victor Tangermann

A new British TV show called "Deep Fake Neighbor Wars" is betting big on deepfakes and is putting celebrities up against each other as discontent neighbors.

Artificial Intelligence

Trashy TV Prank Show Deepfakes Celebrities Into Jackass-Style Situations

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Oxford told UK lawmakers that "superhuman AI" could end up being at least as dangerous as nuclear bombs and should be regulated like them.

Artificial Intelligence

Oxford Scientists Warn AI Could Be More Deadly Than Nuclear Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

Super-rare green comet C/2022 E3 — or ZTF for short — is making its closest approach to both the Earth and the Sun, dazzling hobby astrophotographers.

Behold! Dazzling Green Comet Approaches

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

Boston Dynamics' Atlas bipedal robot broke a ton of OSHA regulations in the company's latest video featuring a human construction worker.

Boston Dynamics

Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT Shamelessly Writes Letter Announcing Layoffs While Promoting Execs and Quoting MLK

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Shamelessly Writes Letter Announcing Layoffs While Promoting Execs and Quoting MLK

By Victor Tangermann

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