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It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

"My current friends would kill me if I tried this."

Until recently, scientists had never spotted a star in the act of consuming a planet — and eventually, it will happen to Earth, too.
Off-World

Scientists Spot Tragic Planet Being Eaten by a Dying Star

This is going to happen to Earth one day.

A guitarist asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "write a guitar solo" — and the result, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn't disappoint.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo

This is sick.

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

"AI researchers are more like late-stage teenagers."

A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's list of users who watched so-called "gay content."
Future Society

TikTok Reportedly Kept a Log of Users Who Watched Gay Content

This ain't great!

The Elon Musk-founded research firm that created ChatGPT is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT

And costs are still on the rise.

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

The implications could be huge.

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.
Artificial Intelligence

Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

"I'm like, are we in a f*****g movie right now, or what?"

An ex-Coinbase executive banked big on Bitcoin bouncing back — and cashed out cashing out his bet early once it was clear that he was losing.
Bitcoin

Crypto Guy Loses Million Dollar Bet That Bitcoin Price Would Spike

Has this ever happened before?

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

It's the tip of the AIceberg.

Doctors are warning about oral sex leading to an "epidemic" in throat cancer — but headlines fail to mention a vaccine that can help.
Cancer

Worried About Getting Throat Cancer From Oral Sex? We Have Very Good News

The more people are aware, the better.

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.
Artificial Intelligence

Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

"There will be those who will not want to disclose that it's AI-generated."

In a new paper, researchers argue that emergent properties of LLM-powered AIs — widely seen as a step toward AGI — may just be "mirages."
Artificial Intelligence

Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

Are we just seeing our own humanity reflected back at us?

In a CNN interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak claimed that a Tesla is "trying to kill you every chance it can."
Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak: If You Want to Learn About AI Killing People, “Get a Tesla”

The Woz is at it again.

A one-time OpenAI researcher is sounding alarm bells about the prospect that artificial intelligence may bring about the end of humanity.
OpenAI

Ex-OpenAI Safety Researcher Says There’s a 20% Chance of AI Apocalypse

"If for some reason, God forbid, all these AI systems were trying to kill us, they would definitely kill us."

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest discovery is a doozy, and it seems like it's raising more questions than it's answering.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Detects Mysterious Water Vapor Around Alien Planet

Scientists are stunned.

NASA has figured out a way  to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years.
NASA

NASA Hack Squeezes More Time Out of Dying Voyager 2 Probe

The spacecraft that keeps on giving.

Someone created AI-generated Edward Hopper painting — and Google's search featured the image in its algorithmic overview of the artist's work.
Google

Top Google Result for “Edward Hopper” an AI-Generated Fake

This is surreal.

Saturn's rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's atmosphere and scientists are trying to figure out why.
Off-World

Saturn Is Sucking Up Its Rings

Hey, spit that out!

A water recycling firm teamed up with a Northern Californian brewery to create the Epic OneWater Brew, a beer made from recycled greywater.
Environment

Yum! Environmentally Friendly Beer Made From Used Shower Water

Apparently, it's pretty good.