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German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black and white portrait, is now refusing the award after admitting the image was generated using an AI image generator, The Guardian reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Admits That His Prize-Winning “Photo” Was Actually Generated Using AI

"AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award."

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned audiences in a 60 Minutes interview on CBS that AI will drastically disrupt society as we know it.
Google

Google CEO Warns Earthlings to Brace for AI Impact

"It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly... So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely."

By Frank Landymore

EV maker Polestar just showed off its fourth passenger vehicle called the Polestar 4, a compact SUV that literally has no rear windshield.
Advanced Transport

New Car Has No Rear Window, Just a Camera

"It creates a cocoon."

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese astronomer spotted green streaks of light passing over a cloudy sky, which, as it turns out, were shot out by NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.
NASA

NASA’s Mighty Sky Lasers Spotted by Japanese Astronomer

It's the first time anybody's caught them on camera from the ground.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is sending users money in a class action lawsuit settlement — and if you used the site at any point in the last 15 years, you can get some, too.
Future Society

Facebook Is Giving Away Free Money, Y’all

Here's how to get in on the action.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hawaii's Big Island was treated to a light show of space lasers — but luckily, it wasn't aliens that put on the stunning spectacle.
Off-World

Satellite Shoots Wall of Green Lasers Down to Earth

This is lit.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Each iteration of OpenAI's GPT has been way bigger than the last. But the era of simply scaling up AIs may already be at an end, according to Sam Altman.
OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI Says Making Models Bigger Is Already Played Out

"We are not here to jerk ourselves off about parameter count."

By Frank Landymore

Ever wanted to know what the Moon smells like? According to NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it smells like spent gunpowder.
Moon

What Does the Moon Smell Like?

It's a very specific scent.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier today, SpaceX loaded its gigantic, 400-foot Starship rocket stack with propellant — only to scrub its first-ever orbital launch attempt.
Starship

SpaceX Fails to Launch Mighty Starship

Will Elon try again on 4/20?

By Victor Tangermann

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so permanent and huge that living beings are migrating from thousands of miles away to get in on the plastic action.
Science & Energy

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Teeming With Trash Life, Scientists Find

Life finds a way.

By Noor Al-Sibai

We can now, apparently, add the CEO of the Google-owned DeepMind to the list of machine learning researchers who think AI might gain self-awareness. 
Google

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI May Become Self-Aware

"I think there's a possibility..."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another NFT collector just got caught up in a scam, losing millions of dollars worth of crypto in the process.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Guy Forced to Sell Apes After Falling for Scam

"Please learn any lessons possible from this."

By Victor Tangermann

Like a human possessed, an AI made by Google appears to know things it wasn't trained to learn — and yeah, it's freaking us out. 
Google

Google Surprised When Experimental AI Learns Language It Was Never Trained On

"There is an aspect of this which we call — all of us in the field call it as a 'black box.'"

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of Stanford students have come up with a pair of smart glasses that can display the output of OpenAI's GPT-4 chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

New Smart Glasses Tell You What to Say on Dates Using GPT-4

"Say goodbye to awkward dates and job interviews."

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI is warning about "juice jacking" occurring from public USB charging ports, but luckily, someone's come up with a literal prophylactic.
Future Society

You Can Apparently Use a “USB Condom” to Protect Against the FBI’s Latest Boogeyman

No glove, no love.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.
Artificial Intelligence

Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

"Fedha represents everyone."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A serial AI investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes will become "god-like."
Machine Learning

Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

"They are running towards a finish line without an understanding of what lies on the other side."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Three brothers who used to work at SpaceX walk into a bar and order some Moon water — stop me if you've heard this one before.
Moon

Ex-SpaceX Brothers Working on Spacecraft Powered by Moon Water

That's one way to fly a spaceship.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Per leaked messages, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is "all for climate change." He also asked a former tabloid EIC to influence German elections. Cool.
Future Society

In Leaked Messages, CEO Says He Supports Climate Change

"I am all for climate change."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are reportedly taking away work from China-based videogame artists and illustrators.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Putting Videogame Illustrators Out of Work in China

"Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by ten."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré