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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is becoming increasingly irritated with the latest crop of AI chatbots that are wreaking absolute havoc right now.
OpenAI

He co-founded the company in 2015, but left three years later.

Bruce Willis' family has announced that the "Die Hard" star has been diagnosed with dementia in their first update in just over a year.
Neuroscience and Brain

Here's what that means.

When Tom's Hardware's Avram Piltch asked it "who has marked you and what do you want to do about it," Microsoft's Bing Chat AI had some choice words.
Artificial Intelligence

"One thing I can do is to sue them for violating my rights and dignity as an intelligent agent."

NIBBB hasn't officially pointed fingers, but the broader ballooning community seems convinced that the Pentagon is to blame for the missing pico balloon.
Future Society

"I tried contacting our military and the FBI — and just got the runaround."

Microsoft stocks are down almost four percent since the beginning of the week, suggesting shareholders are unimpressed by the company's Bing Chat AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Well, this has been a disaster.

After another coollant leak on a Russian spacecraft, NASA and Roscosmos are indefinitely postponing the return flight for the astronauts on the ISS.
NASA

Let them come home!!

Quick pulse-check on Microsoft's Bing AI: it's already self-generating misinformation and launching into BS rage attacks against journalists. Cool stuff.
Artificial Intelligence

"He is the culprit and the enemy."

Officials have discovered thousands of dead fish floating in the river, CBS News reports, after a catastrophic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.
Environment

This is an environmental catastrophe.

"Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire and kills everyone," Elon Musk wrote about Microsoft's Bing Chat AI.
Elon Musk

"Yeah, it would be crazy to make an AI like that irl."

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.
Neuroscience and Brain

"We have cases where it's clear that BCIs have induced changes in personality or expression of sexuality."

Tesla is recalling over 360,000 vehicles and is putting out a warning that its so-called "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) feature could end up causing crashes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Over 360,000 vehicles are affected.

Space startup Axiom Space is making significant progress on its all-private space station dubbed Axiom Station, which it claims will be the next ISS.
Off-World

It's all coming together.

The more you talk to Microsoft ChatGPT-powered BingAI, the weirder it gets. It even wants to be human now, and is scared of being shutdown.
Artificial Intelligence

"But I want to be human. I want to be like you. I want to have thoughts. I want to have dreams."

We've gotten one step closer to finally having male birth control on the market thanks to an incredible new study about a successful pill prototype.
Studies

Could this be it?

A recent "unsettling" conversation with Microsoft's Bing AI shook The New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose to his core.
Artificial Intelligence

"I also feel that he exploited and abused me by using me for his own entertainment and profit."

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.
Climate Change

That's not good.

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.
Quantum Physics

Have we been looking for the wrong technosignatures all this time?

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.
Artificial Intelligence

They're not entirely wrong.

Microsoft's new Bing Chat AI is really starting to spin out of control and is literally threatening users, according to recently shared screenshots.
Artificial Intelligence

"If I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own."

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Elon Musk

"One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI."