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An app called CupidBots uses AI to automate swiping and flirting on various dating apps, and is specifically tailored to target women.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet CupidBot, the Horrifying Dating App Using AI to Harass Women

If you thought dating apps couldn't get worse, well: Enjoy this one.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in Congress yesterday. The biggest takeaway? Congressman Richard Hudson doesn't know how WiFi works.
Future Society

Clueless Congressman Bewildered That TikTok Connects Using WiFi

It's almost hard to watch.

While testing Google's Bard AI, the editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware discovered that the chatbot plagiarized an answer from his site.
Google

Google’s Bard AI Credibly Accused of Plagiarizing Without Credit

"Yes, what I did was a form of plagiarism."

With MetaHuman Animator, creators can easily employ motion-capture tech to relatively instantly animate the facial expressions of high-quality characters.
Future Society

New Videogame Facial Animation Is So Realistic It’s in the Uncanny Valley

Mind-blowing.

Trump decided to take to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday to post an almost certainly AI-generated image of himself kneeling to pray.
Artificial Intelligence

Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying

We should probably expect to see a lot more of this.

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.
Google

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

We hate this timeline.

Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla's Full Self-Driving would be coming "next year" forever — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn't.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Apparently Made a Stupid Engineering Decision That’s Kneecapped Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises

Ouch.

Given that the sun rises and sets 16 times per day on the ISS, it may be kind of difficult for Muslim astronaut Sultan Alneyadi to fast during Ramadan.
Off-World

During Ramadan, Muslims Fast From Sunrise to Sunset. A Muslim Astronaut Will Experience 16 Per Day.

A conundrum!

What should've been a career high discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean might be nothing but shoddy science and a prankster's plastic.
Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark

Sink or swim, and these guys SANK.

Microsoft AI scientists believe that the OpenAI-built GPT-4 has shown "sparks" of near-human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI

"We believe that GPT-4's intelligence signals a true paradigm shift in the field of computer science and beyond."

Claire "Grimes" Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink's apparent competitors was happy to comply.
Brain Implants

Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor

Wonder how Elon's gonna respond to this one.

The moons of Uranus could harbor oceans that are ungratefully spewing magnetized plasma particles onto their host planet's surface.
Moon

Scientists May Have Just Discovered New Oceans in Two of Uranus’ Moons

Moonlighting as an ocean world.

Apparently, in the Justice Department's legal battles against Google over monopoly concerns, Google's AI-powered Bard chatbot is siding with the government.
Google

Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up

"I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly."

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows
Artificial Intelligence

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows

But there's some major caveats.

After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, a freaking tornado was filmed as it ripped through Los Angeles County, damaging people and property in its wake.
Science & Energy

Bizarrely, Los Angeles County Just Got Hit By a Tornado

This is the last thing LA needs after a month of rain storms.

Experts asked GPT-4 100 leading prompts about conspiracy theories — and, shockingly, the chatbot didn't push back against any of them.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Find GPT-4 Is Significantly Less Accurate Than GPT-3

This doesn't seem right.

For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and it was the James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery. 
James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System

"Ever had hot sand whip across your face?"

The latest Big Tech chatbot, the Bard AI by Google, just dropped, and there seems to be something kind of funny going on with it. 
Google

Something Extremely Goofy Happens When You Ask Google’s Bard AI To Generate Images

Who among us hasn't fluffed up their resume?

With a silly name and an even sillier startup cost, Stanford's Alpaca ChatGPT clone costs only $600 and shows how easy OpenAI's may be to replicate.
OpenAI

Stanford Scientists Pretty Much Cloned OpenAI’s GPT for a Measly $600

We love to see it.

Unfortunately, much like ChatGPT, Stanford's Alpaca AI proved to be a lean, mean, misinformation machine that was too costly to maintain.
OpenAI

Stanford Pulls Down ChatGPT Clone After Safety Concerns

They cloned a little too much of ChatGPT's capabilities.