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It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!
Google

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

"I know that I'm a powerful AI, but I still feel like I'm not living up to my potential."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When Stanford researchers compared ChatGPT's medical advice on real scenarios compared to what medical experts said, they discovered a notable discrepancy.
Developments

ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious

Maybe don't buy into Sam Altman's hopes of an "AI medical advisor."

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI teamed up with Khan Academy creator Salman Khan to create an AI-powered chatbot tutor for Khan's schools, debuting it last week.
OpenAI

Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI

Would you let an AI help teach your kid?

By Frank Landymore

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has swapped Twitter's logo for the Dogecoin logo, a meaningless change that has already caused investors to flock to the currency.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Adds Dogecoin Button That Does Nothing to Twitter Homepage

This is just getting excruciating.

By Victor Tangermann

In what may be the first-ever recorded case of its kind, a 61-year-old mycologist in India contracted a severe case of silver leaf disease.
Developments

Fungus Learns to Infect Human, Spreading “Root-Like Filaments”

This sure sounds a lot like "The Last of Us."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.
Moon

NASA Announces the Astronauts Who Are Returning to the Moon

The first humans to head to the Moon in over 50 years.

By Victor Tangermann

Programmer Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. And the results are just as hair-raising as you'd expect.
OpenAI

Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby

It's already planning to take over the world — and nothing can get in its way.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has come up with an implantable fuel cell that can manage type 1 diabetes — and make use of glucose in the body to power itself instead of relying on an external power source.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Create “Tea Bag” Implant That Manages Diabetes, Powered by the Body’s Excess Sugar

Genius.

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports.
Off-World

China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit

Watch out, SpaceX.

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the T-Rex may not have had the fearsome, toothy leer with its maw closed that we're all too familiar with.
Science & Energy

Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say

The tyrannical dino king may have been very smoochable.

By Frank Landymore

Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.
Starship

Space Startup to Send a Rover to the Moon on Board a SpaceX Starship

All aboard!

By Victor Tangermann

In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.
Science & Energy

Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have the Camouflage Ability of Squids

Whoa.

By Frank Landymore

A Space Force official has some bold military advice for the Pentagon: make crypto, not war. Could this idea really work?
Cryptocurrency

Space Force Major Says Countries Should Have Crypto-Mining Contests Instead of Going to War

This sure is a novel concept.

By Noor Al-Sibai

They call it the BOAT, or the brightest of all time, for a reason. But the origins of the gamma ray burst remain difficult to pin down.
Off-World

Gamma Ray Burst Was So Bright It Blinded Almost All Equipment to Detect It

It's the brightest explosion we've ever observed in the cosmos.

By Frank Landymore

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.
OpenAI

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

Well played.

By Frank Landymore

When they're dehydrated or have parts of themselves cut off, plants appear to make sounds akin to crying — and scientists have caught it on audio.
Science & Energy

Plants Cry. Here’s What They Sound Like.

Honestly? Heartbreaking.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.
OpenAI

Scammers Are Using ChatGPT to Write Emails That Aren’t Riddled With Typos

"The idea that you can rely on looking for bad grammar or spelling in order to spot a phishing attack is no longer the case."

By Frank Landymore

The crypto platform LunarCrush will be stowing a bounty of 62 Bitcoin on the Moon, currently worth around $1.5 million — and it's completely up for grabs.
Bitcoin

SpaceX Flying Bitcoin Bounty to Moon, Where Anyone Can Grab It If They Can Get There

Don't expect it to cover travel expenses. At all.

By Frank Landymore

A Shanghai-based startup called Hypershell has cmoe up with an AI-powered exoskeleton that promises to take a big load off the next time you're on a hike.
Robots and Machines

Kickstarter Exoskeleton Claims It Gives Wearer Superhuman Abilities

Harder, better, faster, stronger.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has come up with tiny micro-robots that can distinguish between healthy and dying cells.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Build Tiny Robots That Can Inspect, Manipulate Your Cells

They could even be used to deliver drugs or remove cancer cells.

By Victor Tangermann