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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.

The Margaritaville bill always comes due — and in FTX and Alameda Resarch's case, it was way higher than we thought. Like, $600k more.
Blockchain

It Turns Out FTX and Alameda Owe Margaritaville a Staggering Amount of Money

That's... so many cheeseburgers.

Every reporter's worst nightmare came to life for one Ecuadorian journalist when he plugged a USB device into his computer and it exploded in the newsroom.
Robots and Machines

Journalist Gets USB Drive, Turns Out to Be a Bomb That Explodes When He Plugs It In

"It’s a military-type explosive..."

The Google-made, AI-powered Bard chatbot is already spouting disinformation with shocking ease — and supporting those conspiracies with fake news sources.
Google

Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

Google's Bard is pretty impressive. But it'll also happily defend Pizzagate — and cook up fake citations to defend deranged conspiracies.

Jackson Greathouse Fall has gone viral for his stunt of using ChatGPT to make all his business decisions, garnering modest investment.
OpenAI

Man Starts Business With Only $100 By Doing What ChatGPT Tells Him

"You are HustleGPT, an entrepreneurial AI. I am your human counterpart."

The White House is more irked with Elon Musk than ever after a selfie of him with a Russian propagandist ended up online.
Off-World

White House Freaked Out Over Elon Musk’s Selfie With Top Russian Propagandist

Remember, Musk is a huge government contractor.

With piling debt, seized assets, and its once dependable spacecrafts now plagued with leaks, Roscosmos is in some of the worst shape ever.
Off-World

Russia’s Space Program Appears to Be Completely Falling Apart

A grim decline into decrepitude.

People are using AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested by the NYPD before it actually happens, because that's the world we live in now.
Artificial Intelligence

People Keep Posting Phony AI-Generated Images of Trump Getting Arrested

"We are witnessing a new form of 'anticipatory disinformation.'"

OpenAI's ChatGPT was down last night due to a glitch that made chat histories publicly visible, while another bug may have also compromised user emails.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Bug Accidentally Revealed Users’ Chat Histories, Email Addresses, and Phone Numbers

"It was clearly other people's contact information."

Oxygen levels are so dangerously low in a river n Australia that millions of fish have turned up on its shores — but don't worry, everything's fine.
Climate Change

Officials Say It’s Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River

"The stink was terrible. I was worried about my own health."

Concerned about OpenAI and the implications of its powerful AI tech? Fair, but CEO Sam Altman says you should probably focus your worry on its competition.
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Warns That Competitors Will Make AI That’s More Evil

"There will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on it."

There's an old joke in the bisexual community that goes: "How can you tell if someone is bisexual? Don't worry, they'll tell you."
Developments

Scientists Tested Whether People Could Identify Bisexual Men by Listening to Their Voices, and the Results Were Hilarious

Wasn't expecting that result!

A peer-review process accepted a research paper written entirely by OpenAI's ChatGPT — without ever realizing that an AI program penned the paper.
OpenAI

Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT

The worst part? It passed peer review.

Midjourney's latest V5 update has got hands almost nailed down. Now, it'll take more sleuthing to tell if an image of a person is AI generated or not.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch Out, Folks: AI Image Generators Can Do Hands Now

AI images are about to be a real handful, now more than ever.

It's not over just yet, but we're almost there, the United Nations' IPCC watchdog group has said in its latest anxiety-inspiring report.
Climate Change

Top Scientists Say We’re in Deep, Deep Trouble

Things are not looking good.

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Plant Admits It Accidentally Leaked 400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water

The leak was first identified in November, but authorities are only just now letting the public know.