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Like a human possessed, an AI made by Google appears to know things it wasn't trained to learn — and yeah, it's freaking us out.

Google Surprised When Experimental AI Learns Language It Was Never Trained On

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of Stanford students have come up with a pair of smart glasses that can display the output of OpenAI's GPT-4 chatbot.

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New Smart Glasses Tell You What to Say on Dates Using GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.

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Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A serial AI investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes will become "god-like."

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Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are reportedly taking away work from China-based videogame artists and illustrators.

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AI Is Already Putting Videogame Illustrators Out of Work in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Criminals used an AI to clone the voice of the 15-year-old girl to fake a kidnapping, and tried to get her mother to pay a ransom.

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Mom Says Creeps Used AI to Fake Daughter’s Kidnapping

By Victor Tangermann

ChaosGPT — that autonomous, open-source AI agent tasked to "destroy humanity" — is still working hard to bring about the end of our species.

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AI Tasked With Destroying Humanity Now Trying New Tactic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider has given its reporters the green light to use OpenAI's ChatGPT for its reporting. That green light, however, came with a laundry list of warnings.

Major News Site Warns ChatGPT Is Inaccurate, Announces Plans to Use It Anyway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the world's foremost futurists is arguing that some AI chatbots exhibit glimpses of sentience — but that doesn't mean they're fully conscious yet.

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Nick Bostrom Says AI Chatbots May Have Some Degree of Sentience

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to finance professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira, large language models like ChatGPT could be used to forecast stock prices.

Finance Professor Claims ChatGPT Can Predict Stock Performance

By Victor Tangermann

According to a survey conducted by Stanford University, 36 percent of AI researchers believe that AI could cause "nuclear-level catastrophe." Great.

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A Third of Researchers Think that AI Could Cause a Nuclear-Level Catastrophe

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group calling themselves the "overemployed" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports.

Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports.

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Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers let 25 artificial intelligence-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than one might expect.

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Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating.

By Victor Tangermann

An AI artist has imagined what Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos would look like if they lived in slums — and honestly, the images go kind of hard.

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AI Shows What Mark Zuckerberg Would Look Like Living in Poverty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another day, another AI bro looking to defeat death — and almost certainly looking to monetize your grief via AI algorithms in the process.

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Tech Guy Changes Mind About Emulating Dead Parents After Watching “Black Mirror” Episode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Years after shutting down its robotics division, OpenAI is now back in the game after raising funding for Norwegian robotics company 1X.

Oh God… OpenAI Is Working on a Humanoid Robot

By Frank Landymore

Folks have begun using AI image generators to make porn of people who don't exist — and it seems to be a seller's market.

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People Are Actually Selling AI-Generated Nudes on Reddit

By Noor Al-Sibai

A user instructed an autonomous AI agent, dubbed ChaosGPT, to destroy humanity. Though the bot gave the mission its darndest, it didn't quite work out.

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Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness AI-assisted — or even AI-propogated — terrorism.

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UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech workers got paid six-figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoard talent.

People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Columbia law scholar has joined the OpenAI chat — and he's got some pretty start warnings about ChatGPT's legal liability.

Scholar Warns That ChatGPT’s Legal Issues Are a “Ticking Time Bomb”

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian mayor may sue OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated defamation, after the AI chatbot told users that he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

OpenAI Threatened With Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Defamation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It might be gone by now, but if you use Google Pay, you might've received some free dinero that you'll want to cash out sooner than rather than later.

Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money

By Frank Landymore

Stability AI, a startup that helped develop popular open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports.

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The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company has AI search products in the work, with aspirations of integrating chatbot functionality into its Google Search.

Google CEO Says It’s Adding AI to Search

By Frank Landymore

Universal Music Group just issued a copyright takedown notice to a YouTuber, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using Eminem's voice.

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Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — which is becoming a big problem for the journalism industry.

Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.

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New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

By Frank Landymore

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.

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Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has falsely accused at least one person of sexual assault and made up fake news articles to back it up — and yes, we're very afraid.

ChatGPT Falsely Accuses Law Professor of Sexual Assault

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he's worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.

Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new interview, Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter admitted that concerns about artificial intelligence led to the timing of the band's breakup.

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Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Clearview AI, maker of AI-powered facial recognition software used widely by US cops, claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos for AI training.

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AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After Italy banned OpenAI's ChatGPT, a surprising detractor came out of the woodwork — the country's own deputy prime minister.

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Furious His Regulators Banned ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Not only does generative AI threaten originality in art, as some argue, it undeniably makes who gets the credit for intellectual property a lot murkier.

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Hollywood Panicking Over the Rise of Generative AI

By Frank Landymore

New level of parasocial relationships just dropped: Swifties are using AI voice-generation tech as a way to bring Taylor Swift's voice to fake quotes.

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Swifties Are Using AI to Make Taylor Swift Say Nice Things to Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Joe Biden is to meet with the scientific advisors today to discuss the "risks and opportunities" of artificial intelligence (AI).

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President Biden Meeting With Advisers to Discuss Explosion in AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A whopping 2.1 million teachers in the US are using a new AI detection tool by Turnitin, The Washington Post reports, but it's extremely unreliable.

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Software Schools Use to Detect Cheating Is Flagging Real Essays as AI Generated

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes to the concept of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some seriously mixed feelings.

OpenAI CEO Predicted AI Would Either End the World as We Know It, or Make Tons of Money

By Victor Tangermann

The Belgian man reportedly spent weeks on end talking to a chatbot named Eliza, which repeatedly urged him to kill himself.

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Widow Says Man Died by Suicide After Talking to AI Chatbot

By Frank Landymore

It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI teamed up with Khan Academy creator Salman Khan to create an AI-powered chatbot tutor for Khan's schools, debuting it last week.

Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Programmer Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. And the results are just as hair-raising as you'd expect.

Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby

By Victor Tangermann

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

By Frank Landymore

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.

Scammers Are Using ChatGPT to Write Emails That Aren’t Riddled With Typos

By Frank Landymore

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has some seriously mixed feelings about AI being used to write entries for the encyclopedia.

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Founder of Wikipedia Says Maybe It Should Be Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

An absolutely deranged new video shows an artificial intelligence interpreting famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti — well, that was the intent at least.

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Horrific AI-Generated Video Shows Will Smith Eating Spaghetti

By Victor Tangermann

The rumor mill has churned out a pretty huge claim against Google's new Bard AI chatbot — but the tech giant is denying, denying, denying.

Google Denies Claim That Bard Was Trained by Stealing ChatGPT Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

Midjourney is now discontinuing its free trial offers. But its CEO says the move is unrelated to the viral convincing fakes of celebrities the AI generated.

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Midjourney Nixes Free Generations After AI Pope Images Go Viral

By Frank Landymore

The anti-artificial intelligence push continues apace in Italy, which just moved to temporarily ban OpenAI's ChatGPT pending a data privacy investigation.

Mama Mia! Italy Has Banned ChatGPT!

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's loudest AI e critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on it but to militantly put an end to it all — before it ends us.

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Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has confirmed that it's squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, a feature it only introduced last month.

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Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's latest AI GPT-4 was capable of saying some deeply racist things before being constrained by the company's "red team," Insider reports.

GPT-4 Was Deeply Racist Before OpenAI Muzzled It

By Victor Tangermann

An unhinged new AI chatbot dubbed FreedomGPT just dropped — and it was trained to have absolutely no inhibitions whatsoever.

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Deranged New AI Has No Guardrails Whatsoever, Proudly Praises Hitler

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed pledged to do a good job with its AI content. But then it quietly started posting entire articles written by AI.

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BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

While the rest of the world is concerned about ChatGPT coming to take their jobs, some companies are paying six figures to people who are really good at it.

Companies Are Paying Bonkers Salaries for People Good at ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Goldman Sachs wants you to replace your costly human labor force with generative AI. Look on the bright side, though: huge savings.

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Goldman Sachs Salivates at AI’s Potential to Mass Fire Workers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The CEO of OpenAI has admitted that he's afraid of the artificial intelligence his company is ushering in — but he doesn't think you should laugh about it.

OpenAI CEO: It’s Not Funny That I’m Afraid of the AI We’re Creating

By Noor Al-Sibai

An open letter, signed by over 1,100 AI experts andCEOs, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is calling for a six-month moratorium on "AI experiments."

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Huge Group Calls for Temporary Pause on AI More Advanced Than GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

A guy says he's growing a startup through ChatGPT's wisdom alone. But the company's website is seriously off — concerning, as he's accepting cash donations.

That Startup Run by ChatGPT Doesn’t Seem to Be Doing So Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI death march is apparently on its way to claiming another victim now that Levi's is, apparently, going to start outsourcing its model diversity to AI.

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Levi’s Mocked for Using AI to Generate “Diverse” Denim Models

By Noor Al-Sibai

An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the well-known cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga.

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Perplexing AI Video Turns “Harry Potter” Into Balenciaga Ad

By Victor Tangermann

A team of AI scientists is claiming that just like humans can solve problems through self-reflection, Large Language Model (LLM) AIs might be able to, too.

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AI Seems to Do Better on Tasks When Asked to Reflect on Its Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré