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A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million

It's a gold rush!

Elon Musk reportedly tried to takeover as OpenAI's CEO back in 2018. But when the rest of the company's board allegedly vetoed his proposal, he walked away.
OpenAI

Elon Musk Reportedly Tried to Take Over OpenAI Several Years Ago, But Failed

There might be more than meets the eye here.

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.
Virtual Reality

VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane

"And we die through insanity, essentially."

Avi Loeb has good evidence that a meteorite that crashed to Earth was interstellar. He thinks it might even be alien — which is why he's looking for it.
Science & Energy

Harvard Physicist Preparing Expedition to Recover Possible Alien Artifact

Alien probe or interstellar meteorite, finding it won't be easy.

The triple-A video game developer has unveiled its new "Ghostwriter" tool, which in theory will save writers the extra effort of writing a zillion "barks."
Artificial Intelligence

Ubisoft Develops Tool to Crank Out Video Game Dialogue Using AI

A generic dialogue machine, or a tedium saver?

An app called CupidBots uses AI to automate swiping and flirting on various dating apps, and is specifically tailored to target women.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet CupidBot, the Horrifying Dating App Using AI to Harass Women

If you thought dating apps couldn't get worse, well: Enjoy this one.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in Congress yesterday. The biggest takeaway? Congressman Richard Hudson doesn't know how WiFi works.
Future Society

Clueless Congressman Bewildered That TikTok Connects Using WiFi

It's almost hard to watch.

While testing Google's Bard AI, the editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware discovered that the chatbot plagiarized an answer from his site.
Google

Google’s Bard AI Credibly Accused of Plagiarizing Without Credit

"Yes, what I did was a form of plagiarism."

With MetaHuman Animator, creators can easily employ motion-capture tech to relatively instantly animate the facial expressions of high-quality characters.
Future Society

New Videogame Facial Animation Is So Realistic It’s in the Uncanny Valley

Mind-blowing.

Trump decided to take to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday to post an almost certainly AI-generated image of himself kneeling to pray.
Artificial Intelligence

Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying

We should probably expect to see a lot more of this.

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.
Google

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

We hate this timeline.

Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla's Full Self-Driving would be coming "next year" forever — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn't.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Apparently Made a Stupid Engineering Decision That’s Kneecapped Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises

Ouch.

Given that the sun rises and sets 16 times per day on the ISS, it may be kind of difficult for Muslim astronaut Sultan Alneyadi to fast during Ramadan.
Off-World

During Ramadan, Muslims Fast From Sunrise to Sunset. A Muslim Astronaut Will Experience 16 Per Day.

A conundrum!

What should've been a career high discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean might be nothing but shoddy science and a prankster's plastic.
Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark

Sink or swim, and these guys SANK.

Microsoft AI scientists believe that the OpenAI-built GPT-4 has shown "sparks" of near-human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI

"We believe that GPT-4's intelligence signals a true paradigm shift in the field of computer science and beyond."

Claire "Grimes" Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink's apparent competitors was happy to comply.
Brain Implants

Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor

Wonder how Elon's gonna respond to this one.

The moons of Uranus could harbor oceans that are ungratefully spewing magnetized plasma particles onto their host planet's surface.
Moon

Scientists May Have Just Discovered New Oceans in Two of Uranus’ Moons

Moonlighting as an ocean world.

Apparently, in the Justice Department's legal battles against Google over monopoly concerns, Google's AI-powered Bard chatbot is siding with the government.
Google

Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up

"I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly."

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows
Artificial Intelligence

Screenwriter Union Reportedly Proposes Allowing AI-Written Movies and TV Shows

But there's some major caveats.

After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, a freaking tornado was filmed as it ripped through Los Angeles County, damaging people and property in its wake.
Science & Energy

Bizarrely, Los Angeles County Just Got Hit By a Tornado

This is the last thing LA needs after a month of rain storms.