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An AI artist who moonlights as a parody account of the uber-popular @dril account reminds us that online can still be fun.

Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to “Robot Hell”! Meet the Deranged Genius Who Created an AI Version of @Dril

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has released its latest product dubbed DALL-E2 — an impressive piece of coding that can turn simple text descriptions into photorealistic images.

Drat! OpenAI Says Its Image-Generating AI Is Incapable of Making Porn

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released its latest creation called DALL-E2 — a truly impressive demonstration of the power of generative adversarial networks.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New AI Can Spit Out Realistic Images From Simple Descriptions

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of CEO Elon Musk claiming that Tesla may begin selling its Optimus humanoid robots next year, that timeline nearly impossible.

Artificial Intelligence

Sorry, But There’s No Way Tesla Is Selling a Humanoid Robot Next Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

Polyamory is one thing, but one man who claims falling in love with his AI girlfriend saved his marriage to his flesh-and-blood wife is certainly another.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Credits Affair With AI Girlfriend For Saving His Marriage

By Noor Al-Sibai

The neural networks behind social media's sophisticated ad targeting could swallow the whole energy grid.

Scientists Warn That Ad-Targeting Neural Networks Could Use “Infinite” Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some mad scientists have been training neural networks onto "The Simpsons" — and the results are demonic AF.

Artificial Intelligence

Neural Networks Generate Demonic Simpsons Characters Straight From Hell

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid a maelstrom about AI consciousness, one MIT data scientist has highlighted that the concept might not be so far-fetched.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Researcher: Don’t Ignore the Possibility That AI Is Becoming Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

A robot bartender named Cecilia is Miami's hottest new mixologist.

AI Bartender Slams Out 120 Drinks Per Hour While Cracking Stupid Jokes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Swedish musician and AI enthusiast Supercomposite used the Looking Glass AI to create hundreds of creepy tarot cards and has been sharing them on Twitter.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Generates Haunting New Tarot Cards

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crisis Text Line, one of the most popular suicide crisis hotline chat sources, is capitalizing on data collected from people experiencing true trauma and depression.

Health & Medicine

A Suicide Hotline Is Sharing People’s Data With a For Profit Company

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A grisly trend has emerged: users who create AI partners, act abusive toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.

Artificial Intelligence

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

By Ashley Bardhan

Data scientists who have already been tracking political violence around the world are retooling their efforts to predict American insurrection using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Data Scientists Say They’ve Developed Algorithms to Predict the Next Coup Attempt

By Noor Al-Sibai

IBM is putting up Watson Health for sale once again. The buyer could potentially affect millions of patients and government healthcare strategies.

Prosthetics and Devices

Remember IBM’s Amazing Watson AI? Now It’s Desperately Trying to Sell It Off

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers in China created a machine that can file a charge with more than 97 percent accuracy based on a description of a suspected criminal case.

Artificial Intelligence

China Created an AI ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Charge People with Crimes

By Tony Ho Tran

Is AI inherently good, or inherently bad? Students at Oxford Business debate the Megatron AI about its ethic. "AI will never be ethical," it said.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Asked an Advanced AI Whether AI Could Ever Be Ethical, and It Said No

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Alphabet's AI research company DeepMind has released the next generation of its language model that almost has the reading comprehension of a high schooler.

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind Says Its New AI Has Almost the Reading Comprehension of a High Schooler

By Victor Tangermann

Digital artist Eric “Shardcore” Drass is creating porn using machine learning tools -- and the world may never be the same.

Artificial Intelligence

NSFW: Gaze Upon the Horrid Melting Flesh of Neural Network Porn

By Norman Miller

It looks like China's "doomsday" AI weapons may be more American than critics care to admit.

Artificial Intelligence

US Military Horrified by Chinese Military Spending Money on Exact Same Crap They Do

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yuval Harari has a stark warning: we need to start regulating AI — otherwise big companies are going to be able to hack humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That Human Beings Are Going to Start Getting Hacked

By Tony Ho Tran

A New Zealand-based company wants to provide a "digital workforce" for the future metaverse complete with AI that can learn from interactions.

Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Creating Digital Human Servants to Work in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

McDonald's is partnering with IBM to implement artificial intelligence tech to take orders at its drive-thru lanes.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI

By Victor Tangermann

An interdisciplinary team of scientists have launched a project with the goal of decoding and potentially communicating with sperm whales.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Working on an AI to Let Us Talk to Whales

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI created Ask Delphi to make ethical judgments — but it turned out to be awfully bigoted and racist instead.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist

By Tony Ho Tran

Fraudsters used a deepfaked voice of a company executive to fool a bank manager to transfer the millions to their possession in early 2020.

Bank Robbers Steal $35 Million by Deepfaking Boss’s Voice

By Tony Ho Tran

Former US general Stanley McChrystal warns that AI with the power to launch lethal strikes is inevitable, even if the idea is frightening.

Artificial Intelligence

Former General Warns About Rise of Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak has a pretty grim view on the fate of humanity: the robot uprising is inevitable and they will leave humans in the dust.

Neuralink Co-Founder Predicts That Humanity Will Get “Wrecked”

By Victor Tangermann

Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat says that AI developers are creating God, and that humanity is in trouble because of it.

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

By Dan Robitzski

iRobot, the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum, specifically trained the new model's AI to avoid running over dop poop and smearing it everywhere.

New Roomba Boasts Dog Poop-Avoiding AI

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk seems to be singing a different tune when it comes to the dangers of AI. "The robots are coming anyway, as Boston Dynamics videos clearly show."

Elon Musk: Tesla Making a Robot Because “Robots Are Coming Anyway”

By Victor Tangermann

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

By Victor Tangermann

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

Artificial Intelligence

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

By Dan Robitzski

Police departments are increasingly relying on systems that use sensors and artificial intelligence to keep track of gunshots, the AP reports.

Crime-Fighting AI Put a Guy in Jail for a Year With Little Evidence

By Victor Tangermann

AI development firm OpenAI just revealed Codex, a tool that can take commands written in English and turn them into programming.

OpenAI’s New Algorithm Can Turn Written Commands Into Code

By Dan Robitzski

A new documentary about the life of the legendary TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in 2018, includes AI recreations of his voice.

Artificial Intelligence

New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Used AI to Recreate His Voice

By Victor Tangermann

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Replaces Drive-Thru Human Workers With Siri-Like AI

By Dan Robitzski

China is pushing back against all the criticism over the uncontrolled reentry and landing of its Long March 5B rocket on Saturday

China’s Military Is Apparently Also Tracking UFOs

By Tony Ho Tran

Singer-songwriter Grimes posted a TikTok video on Wednesday night in which she returned to her next biggest pastime: overpromising what artificial intelligence can provide to society.

Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Says AI Will Usher in an Era of Luxurious Communism

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence will be beating humans — outworking if not entirely outmoding them — in plenty of functions as the future approaches. Here's why.

Artificial Intelligence

Nobel Winner: Artificial Intelligence Will Crush Humans, “It’s Not Even Close”

By Foster Kamer

The creators of the game "AI Dungeon" in which a text-writing algorithm creates a fantasy narrative realized some users were creating abusive content.

Artificial Intelligence

People Caught Using AI to Role-Play Sexual Abuse of Children

By Dan Robitzski

Carnegie Mellon University researcher Simon DeDeo warns of "nightmare" bots that use AI and image synthesis to "drive vulnerable people (literally) crazy.”

Artificial Intelligence

Professor Warns of “Nightmare” Bots That Prey on Vulnerable People

By Kelly Catalfamo

Recent claims that AI can pick up facial expressions to determine how you're feeling are almost certainly wrong, a Microsoft AI expert argues.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Scientist: Emotion-Reading AI Is Doomed To Fail

By Dan Robitzski

If companies want to save money, it would make more sense to replace executives with AI rather than their lower-paid workers.

Artificial Intelligence

Should Overpaid CEOs Be Replaced With Artificial Intelligence?

By Dan Robitzski

A new study published in Psychology & Marketing found that users tend to perceive female robots as having more human traits than male robots.

Study: Turns Out People Are Sexist To Female Robots Too

By Tony Ho Tran

A YouTuber created an AI-powered computer that uses machine learning to shout compliments at dogs as they pass through his neighborhood.

New Machine Screams at Dogs About How Great They Are

By Tony Ho Tran

IBM's Project Debater AI is getting better and better at crafting arguments. We're dreading what will happen when that thing makes its way to the public.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Is Designed to Debate People, and It Could Ruin Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Janelle Shane trained the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 to write some incredible pickup lines. We think they have a shot at actually working.

Artificial Intelligence

You Should Definitely Try These Horrible Pickup Lines Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.

An AI Built to Tell Apart Pastries Was Great at Spotting Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

By Dan Robitzski

Anthony Levandowski decided to shut down the artificial intelligence-focused church he started and donated its funds to the NAACP.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-Worshipping Church Officially Shuts Down

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.

Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are attaching human brain stem cells to microchips in an attempt to make artifiical intelligence more powerful and efficient than before.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Weaving Human Brain Cells Into Microchips

By Dan Robitzski

IBM developed an algorithm that can predict who might develop Alzheimer's disease by spotting changes in their writing style.

IBM Algorithm Can Tell Who’s Going to Get Alzheimer’s by Reading Their Writing

By Dan Robitzski

A trio of scientists say that a new field of research called longevity medicine is emerging and that powerful AI is essentially leading the way.

AI Poised to Revolutionize Longevity, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A congressional advisory panel concluded that the U.S. shouldn't ban killer robots or AI because for all the military knows they could be a good thing.

Artificial Intelligence

Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical AI algorithm can spot problems in Black and underserved patients better than some doctors, potentially mitigating medical racism.

Scientists Trying to Build Medical AI That’s Less Racist Than Doctors

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute say that it might be impossible to rein in superintelligent AI that decides to turn on humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists: It’d Be Impossible to Control Superintelligent AI

By Dan Robitzski

Recreating the impacts of psychedelics in neural networks could help scientists understand how these drugs cause hallucinations in human brains.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Want to Give Neural Networks Virtual Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.

Facial recognition

Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just let an AI-powered algorithm take over the navigation and sensor systems of a spy plane during a training flight on Tuesday.

The Air Force Just Let an AI Take Over Systems of a Military Jet

By Victor Tangermann

After being trained on the very bizarre news of the year 2020, GPT-3 had some particularly unusual guesses for what's coming next.

Artificial Intelligence

A Powerful AI Generated Some Predictions for the Future and They’re Quite Outrageous

By Dan Robitzski