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World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.
Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

"We are moving into a field that we do not know, for which we do not have guidelines, rules, frameworks, or agreements."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A friendlier, mid-pandemic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly out — and a far more cutthroat "old school Zuck" is allegedly back in.
Future Society

Lord Have Mercy on Facebook as Zuck Goes Back to Tha Old Zuck

Look out, Facebook: "OG Zuck" has returned.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Welcome to New Murabba, the "world's largest modern downtown," with a skyscraper that is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall.
Future Society

Saudi Arabia Announces Gigantic Cubed Skyscraper Filled With Holographic Worlds

What in the world.

By Frank Landymore

It promised that AI wouldn't be taking the place of human journalists. Arena Group went ahead and laid off over a dozen employees from its magazine anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Lays Off Journalists After Announcing Pivot to AI Content

The CEO's promise that "AI will never replace journalism" is starting to ring extra hollow.

By Frank Landymore

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story.
Developments

Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story — and issued huge corrections when we caught them.

By Jon Christian

As Microsoft's Bing AI keeps making headlines for its increasingly-bizarre outputs, one question has loomed large: does the chatbot have mental problems?
Artificial Intelligence

We Got a Psychotherapist to Examine the Bing AI’s Bizarre Behavior

There's some strange psychology afoot here.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.
Black Holes

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

"We started off looking at how black holes grow over time, and may have found the answer to one of the biggest problems in cosmology."

By Frank Landymore

It's easy to forget that AI chatbots have been around for a long time — and that Microsoft's old one, Tay, is the literal blueprint for racist algorithms. 
Artificial Intelligence

Last Time Microsoft Released an AI, It Lost Control and Had to Kill It

It wold be ok if Microsoft repeated this part of its AI history tbh.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An untouched and new Boeing 747 passenger jet, which was meant to be heavily modified to fly wealthy Saudi royalty around the world, has been scrapped.
Advanced Transport

Luxury Boeing 747 Scrapped After Just 16 Flights

It sat abandoned for almost a decade.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Elon Musk Horrified by What OpenAI Has Become

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Bruce Willis Has Been Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia

Here's what that means.

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Bing AI Names Specific Human Enemies, Explains Plans to Punish Them

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Group of Dudes Fear the Pentagon May Have Shot Down Their Balloon

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Microsoft Stock Falling as Bing AI Descends Into Madness

Well, this has been a disaster.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Damaged Russian Spacecraft Means NASA Astronauts Might Stay Stuck on the ISS

Let them come home!!

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Bing AI Flies Into Unhinged Rage at Journalist

"He is the culprit and the enemy."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Officials Find Thousands of Dead Fish Near Toxic Train Crash in Ohio

This is an environmental catastrophe.

By Victor Tangermann

"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

Elon Musk Says Microsoft Bing Chat Sounds Like AI That “Goes Haywire and Kills Everyone”

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Brain Chips Like Neuralink Cause Strange Cognitive Changes, Doctors Say

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Tesla Rolling Back Full Self-Driving Version That “May Cause Crashes”

Over 360,000 vehicles are affected.

By Victor Tangermann