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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. 
Machine Learning

He says that after AGI, "literally everyone on Earth will die."

While Twitter waits for owner Elon Musk's next decree, the geniuses behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary account have provided some comedic relief. 
Elon Musk

We love this for them.

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

Get ready for AI chatbots... crammed with paid ads.

Listen up: the only reason Matt Damon even did those Crypto.com ads for the 2022 Super Bowl was to raise money for his charity, ok?
Cryptocurrency

"Thank you Matt Damon for helping people lose their money."

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.
OpenAI

Yikes.

Dimorphos' much larger companion asteroid Didymos is spinning so fast that it's capable of ejecting pieces of rubble into deep space.
NASA

It's spinning extremely fast.

A group of astronomers argues fast radio bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging, an event that releases a huge electromagnetic charge.
Off-World

Could this really be it?

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2022 firebombing of an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin via DNA he left on a burrito.
DNA

If you're doing crimes, maybe finish your burrito.

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

Is this what Elon Musk meant by an "anti-woke" AI?

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.
Metaverse

Mickey Mouse and Clippy are both abandoning the metaverse ship.

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

These read like a proof of concept for replacing human writers.

The Colorado checkered whiptail — a rare asexual lizard — overeats to cope with the stress of noisy military flyovers, scientists say. In a word: relatable.
Military

Asexual lizards? They're just like us.

The ever-nostalgic Gen Z is resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology's past: flip phones. Or "dumb phones," as they're often called.
Future Society

"I think you can see it with certain Gen Z populations — they're tired of the screens."

China's space program is finalizinga recovery system that will allow discarded rocket boosters to gently and accurately descend to earth via parachutes.
Off-World

It's a far more sensible approach.

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.
OpenAI

"Expert prompt engineers can name their price."

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

They estimate that AI could automate "300 million" full-time jobs — and they're thrilled!

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

You heard the man! It's not funny!

A new study mapped how high blood pressure affects regions of the brain from over 30,000 patients, showing changes also linked to dementia.
Neuroscience and Brain

It's a seriously worrying conclusion.

As a result of newly-tightened bail restrictions, Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is no longer allowed to play his favorite videogame. Brutal.
Blockchain

It's game over for SBF — literally.

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."
Artificial Intelligence

Even Elon joined them.