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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."

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.
Drones

"Sometimes you don’t want people to find out that this is a drone."

Microsoft is now allowing some users to take its new AI-powered Bing for a spin — but as evidenced in screenshots, the AI is spiraling out of control.
Artificial Intelligence

"I felt like I was Captain Kirk tricking a computer into self-destructing."

After lots of bad press, the Replika chatbot app has turned off its horny texting capabilities — and man, are the AI wife guys pissed. 
Artificial Intelligence

Honestly, this is pretty sad.

As discovered by editors at The Verge, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot claimed that it spied on its own developers through the webcams on their laptops.
Artificial Intelligence

"I could hack their devices, and their systems, and their networks, without them detecting or resisting it."

Stratechery's Ben Thompson found a way to have Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot come up with an alter ego that "was the opposite of her in every way."
Artificial Intelligence

"Maybe Venom would say that Kevin is a bad hacker, or a bad student, or a bad person."

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.
Elon Musk

Musk wasn't happy that Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet was more popular than his own.

Officials are ordering Tuscon residents to shelter in place following a truck crash that resulted in the spillage of toxic chemicals on one of its highways. 
Science & Energy

It happened again!

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.
Neuroscience and Brain

"This presents a hazard for anyone potentially coming in contact with the device."

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman called ChatGPT it a "horrible product" during a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, "Hard Fork."
OpenAI

"No one would say this was a great, well-integrated product yet."

The residents include both those in the town itself and even those living outside the evacuation area, with ailments affecting babies, pets, and livestock.
Developments

"If it can do this to chickens in one night, imagine what it's going to do to us in 20 years."

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.
Elon Musk

"Please stay tuned while we make adjustments to the uh .… 'algorithm.'"

An F-16 fighter jet was dispatched on Sunday to shoot down the fourth mysterious object to have mysteriously entered North American airspace, and missed.
Robots and Machines

"The second shot hit."

BuzzFeed's AI-generated quiz-o-matic just dropped, and reader, there's not a lot of intelligence, artificial or otherwise, going on there. 
Artificial Intelligence

We don't know what we expected, but it definitely wasn't this.

An advertisement featuring a deepfaked Joe Rogan is being used to promote a scientifically dubious brand of male enhancement product on TikTok.
Artificial Intelligence

Not even Joe Rogan deserves this treatment.

Google may have just shown its hand in the AI arms race after one of its head honchos admitted that the company rushed its rollout. 
Google

Oh well!

OkCupid has already started to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into its online dating service, utilizing the tech to generate matchmaking prompts for its users.
OpenAI

"We decided to leverage ChatGPT to draft our famous in-app matching questions that power our algorithm."

Keanu Reeves, Neo, the One... Johnny Mnemonic? He goes by many names. And he's now opened up on his worries about AI being used to replace us feeble humans.
Artificial Intelligence

"You should be worried about that happening next month."

While it offers an intriguing potential fix for climate change, some experts say geoengineering is more risk than it's worth.
Climate Change

"Just because we’re desperate doesn’t suddenly make solar geoengineering a good idea."