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Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI, hasn't shied away from expressing his disdain (or horror) over the company's newfound direction and success.

Elon Musk Is Super Pissed OpenAI Became Successful After He Left

By Frank Landymore

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.

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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.

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

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

Uh Oh, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Facial recognition

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

By Frank Landymore

Art lovers are understandably peeved at an art exhibit in The Hague after one artist used AI to recreate Veermeer's masterpiece "Girl With a Pearl Earring."

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Lazy Artists Use AI to Rip Off Famous Dutch Painting for Museum Exhibition

By Noor Al-Sibai

A German Microsoft executive, for some reason, is claiming that OpenAI will drop GPT-4, its follow-up to the powerful GPT-3, "next week."

Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today.

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Noam Chomsky: AI Isn’t Coming For Us All, You Idiots

By Noor Al-Sibai

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?

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's new artificial intelligence model for researchers and governments has been leaked — and naturally, it ended up on 4chan.

Facebook’s Powerful ChatGPT Competitor Leaks on 4Chan

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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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.

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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.

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Salesforce is bringing OpenAI's ChatGPT to Slack, yet another sign that the compulsively lying and hallucinating AI assistant is becoming inescapable.

ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack Because We Live and Work in Hell

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.

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Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

By Simon Spichak

If or when AIs becomes conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great.

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Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal kit company will no longer source from there.

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HelloFresh Halting Thai Coconut Milk Sales Over Monkey Labor Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is secretly hiding a "Celebrity" mode in its new AI feature which can impersonate celebrities in its answers, with mixed results.

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Secret Bing AI Feature Allows It to Impersonate Celebrities

By Victor Tangermann

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.

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Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

By Frank Landymore

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

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.

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Elon Musk Roasts Dudes Pivoting From Crypto to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

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AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.

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Get a Load of This New Job: “Prompt Engineers” Who Act as Psychologists to AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.

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Prime Minister of European Country Names AI as Advisor

By Frank Landymore

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots.

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Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

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Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.

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Elon Musk, Who Hates Regulation, Calls for Regulation of Tech That Threatens Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?

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CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

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

After infamously pivoting to AI article writing, CNET owner Red Ventures appears to be hitting staff with a fresh round of layoffs.

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CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism

By Jon Christian, By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

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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.

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America Trembles as AI Generates Every US President With a Mullet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

By Victor Tangermann

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.

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Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”

By Frank Landymore

The artificial intelligence arms race is barging ahead at full speed — and now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting in on the game.

Mark Zuckerberg Bows to Peer Pressure, Announces Pivot to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.

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Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.

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Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

By Frank Landymore

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

Meet "2dumb2destroy," a chatbot that is, refreshingly, too stupid to do humanity any harm beyond telling a bad joke or two.

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New AI Chatbot Deliberately Trained to Be as Stupid as Possible

By Frank Landymore

The U.S. bank is playing it safe in the name of "compliance concerns" to ensure that ChatGPT doesn't inadvertently meddle with its sensitive work.

Giant Bank JP Morgan Bans ChatGPT Use Among Employees

By Frank Landymore

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

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

Joseph Cox at Vice fed his voice into an Eleven Labs AI voice cloning tool, which he used to successfully bypass voice biometrics over the phone.

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Journalist Clones His Voice and Uses It to Break Into His Own Bank Account

By Frank Landymore

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has confirmed that it tested its bizarre Bing AI chatbot for way longer than we realized — and somehow, it still managed to be totally unhinged.

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Microsoft Admits to Testing Deranged Bing AI Long Before Officially Launching It

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Coca-Cola Company is getting deeper into the artificial intelligence game thanks to a newly-inked deal that will see it partnering with OpenAI.

Coca-Cola Signs Deal With OpenAI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's Bing AI used to go on extended diatribes and even profess its love for you. But now, it won't even entertain questions on its feelings.

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Bing AI Now Shuts Down When You Ask About Its Feelings

By Frank Landymore

The new "Custom Voice Creator", as part of Samsung's Bixby mobile assistant, will have your cloned AI voice say whatever whatever you type in.

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Samsung Now Cloning Users’ Voices So an AI Can Answer Calls For Them

By Frank Landymore

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.

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Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People have started using AI-powered apps to clone the voice of president Joe Biden and have him spout off some hilariously out-of-character rants.

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Ridiculous Voice Cloned Joe Biden Speeches Are Going Viral

By Frank Landymore

It's only been a few days since Microsoft announced that it was restricting its unhinged Bing AI chatbot — but apparently, they're having second thoughts.

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Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI

By Noor Al-Sibai