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AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It’s Making Absolutely No Money

By Sharon Adarlo

A sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is studying the artificial intimacy afforded to humans by AI girlfriends.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Studying Married Men With AI Girlfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers submitted AI-generated answers to tests at a university, fooling professors and earning better grades versus actual students.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Answers Fool Professors, Get Better Grades Than Human-Written Ones

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted unnamed AI rivals for "creating God" while also saying open source AI is a positive.

Zuckerberg Accuses Rivals of Trying to Create AI-Powered God

By Sharon Adarlo

After an influencer released an AI clone of herself, The Conversation reports, the situation quickly turned dark and scary.

Artificial Intelligence

Influencer Disturbed When Her “AI Clone” Starts Engaging in Dark Fantasies

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's ChatGPT was caught giving spitting out false voting information for battleground states and even omitted crucial voting data.

ChatGPT Is Giving Bad Info About Where to Vote in Battleground States

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a new interview, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's office has a framed picture of a robot destroying a city.

The CEO of Anthropic Has a Framed Picture of a Giant Robot Destroying a City on His Wall

By Jon Christian

Fast food chains like Wendy's are deploying AI in their drive-through ordering systems, but these technologies are error prone.

Artificial Intelligence

Wendy’s Says Its AI Only Screws Up 14 Percent of Drive-Through Orders

By Sharon Adarlo

During an MIT talk, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton seemed to endorse the concept of superintelligent AI replacing humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

In Video, Godfather of AI Said He Was in Favor of AI Replacing Humankind

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a surprising reversal, a photographer, who had submitted his work to a recent competition, was disqualified for not using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

In Surprising Reversal, Real Photograph Gets Disqualified From Competition for NOT Being AI

By Victor Tangermann

A new report on generative AI reveals that many companies in much of the world are not making a profit on their AI products.

Artificial Intelligence

Companies Find That AI Projects Have Had “Dismal” Financial Results

By Sharon Adarlo

Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi is predicting that shareholders likely won't vote in favor of approving Tesla CEO Elon Musk's pay package.

Analyst Predicts Tesla Shareholders Are Going to Vote Down Elon Musk’s Gigantic Pay Package This Week

By Victor Tangermann

After Google's AI Overviews was caught generating incorrect answers, Google has slashed AI-generated summaries from 84 to less than 15%.

Google Has Drastically Slashed Its AI Results After Disastrously Embarrassing Launch

By Sharon Adarlo

AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy predicted that there's a 99.9 percent chance AI could wipe out humanity within the next 100 years.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Estimates 99.9 Percent Chance AI Will Destroy Humankind

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers warn that companies like OpenAI and Google could soon run out of human-written training data for their AI models.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can’t Get Smarter

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Got Destroyed After Accusing Top AI Scientist of “Going Soft”

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Got Destroyed After Accusing Top AI Scientist of “Going Soft”

By Victor Tangermann

Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

By Sharon Adarlo

A Tesla owner is lucky to be alive after his vehicle in Full Self-Driving mode almost drove straight into a moving train.

Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Careening Straight Into Moving Train as Driver Desperately Tries to Turn Away

By Sharon Adarlo

It sounds like Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, did something interesting last year: he asked Scarlett Johansson for consent.

Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman Ignoring Scarlett Johansson’s Lack of Consent Shows Us Exactly What Type of Person He Really Is

By Jon Christian

Avram Piltch, editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware, cooked up a new Chrome extension that can block Google's new feature AI Overviews.

How to Block Google’s Annoying AI Answers With This Cool Browser Plugin

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI got a lot of criticism this week for departures and a restrictive nondisclosure agreement. Sam Altman is clearly freaked.

Sam Altman Clearly Freaked Out by Reaction to News of OpenAI Silencing Former Employees

By Jon Christian

OpenAI employees are forced to sign a restrictive nondisclosure agreement (NDA) forbidding them from ever criticizing the company.

OpenAI Employees Forced to Sign NDA Preventing Them From Ever Criticizing Company

By Jon Christian

It might sound like a joke, but OpenAI has dissolved the team responsible for making sure advanced AI doesn't turn against humankind.

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Flames Company for Axing Team Working to Prevent Superintelligent AI From Turning Against Humankind

By Jon Christian

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

By Sharon Adarlo

The founder of the dating app Bumble believes the future of dating will involve having your personal AI talk to hundreds of other AIs.

Artificial Intelligence

Bumble Founder Says Future of Dating Is Your AI Will Date Other People’s AIs and Hook You Up With the Best Matches

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI, the maker of DALL-E and ChatGPT, is leaving the door open for its AI models to be used to produce NSFW content.

OpenAI Exploring How to Make AI-Generated Porn

By Jon Christian

A Catholic group has defrocked an AI-generated priest chatbot after it stirred controversy among the faithful.

Artificial Intelligence

Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A24 released a series of realistic apocalyptic scenes on Instagram promoting the Civil War movie, but the images are AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

A24 Admits Those Ads for “Civil War” Were AI-Generated

By Sharon Adarlo

By paying Amazon for lock screen ads, the AI-generated book scammers intend to make money by abusing the Kindle Unlimited program.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Serve Ads for AI-Generated Books on Kindle Lock Screens

By Frank Landymore

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA.) signed up for a master's degree program in machine learning at George Mason University.

Machine Learning

Congressman Getting Master’s Degree in Machine Learning So He Can Make Well-Informed Laws About AI

By Sharon Adarlo

The proposed law would require businesses to disclose a list of all the copyrighted content they used in a training data set for any models.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

An official New York City chatbot has been telling business owners and landlords to break the law, but Mayor Eric Adams defended the tech.

Artificial Intelligence

NYC Mayor Defends AI System That Tells Business Owners to Commit Wage Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Comedian and late-night TV legend Jon Stewart has had enough of AI industry leaders salivating over replacing human workers with AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its “AI” Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

By Victor Tangermann

CEOs at appliance companies want to put AI in your oven and other household items in order to make them smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

Crazed CEOs Adding AI to Home Appliances

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

By Jon Christian

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake

By Jon Christian

The robot, dubbed "Emo," uses cameras in its eyes to predict your smile less than a second before it actually appears.

Alarming Robot Anticipates Your Smile, Returns Horrific Imitation

By Frank Landymore

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

By Frank Landymore

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started writing personal letters to employees at Google in an effort to recruit them for Meta's AI projects.

Zuckerberg Emailing Google Employees, Asking Them to Work for Facebook Instead

By Sharon Adarlo

Embattled AI image generator outfit Stability AI has taken another hit as its embattled CEO Emad Mostaque has resigned.

Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion CEO Resigns as Company Crumbles

By Jon Christian

An upset Reddit user said they shared several AI art images in a Facebook group and then got banned for posting AI art.

Artificial Intelligence

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their “AI Art”

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers taught an AI to think before it speaks like a human's inner monologue — and found that it made the model smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Gave AI an “Inner Monologue” and Something Fascinating Happened

By Noor Al-Sibai

At this year's South by Southwest, audiences booed a clip featuring people preaching the inevitably of an AI takeover.

Artificial Intelligence

SXSW Audience Loudly Boos Video About How AI Is Awesome

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says many people are confused about whether AI is a "creature" or a "tool." Which is it?

Sam Altman Denies OpenAI Is Building AI “Creatures”

By Jon Christian

Companies are using artificial intelligence tools to screen potential employees but they are screening out highly-qualified candidates.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hiring Tools Are Ignoring Qualified Candidates, Expert Says

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's DALL-E could be used to make pornographic images like the ones targeting Taylor Swift, Microsoft engineer says.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Says He Was Silenced for Warning About DALL-E Issue Linked to Taylor Swift Nudes

By Sharon Adarlo

A Serbian deejay turned cybersquatter bought The Hairpin domain and is now using it to post AI-generated garbage content.

Guy Buys The Hairpin’s Domain, Proudly Turns It Into AI-Powered Zombie Content Mill

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have found that North Korean scientists are using artificial intelligence for surveillance and wargaming purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn North Korea Is Using AI Nefarious Purposes

By Victor Tangermann

A man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest him for a robbery in Texas.

Facial recognition

Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He Got Sexually Assaulted

By Sharon Adarlo

An artificial intelligence-generated audio deep faked the voice of a New York City politician insulting another colleague.

Scandal as AI-Generated Audio of Politician Slamming Colleague Goes Viral

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of MIT researchers has found that in many instances, replacing human workers with AI is still more expensive than simply paying them.

Oops! Replacing Workers With AI Is Actually More Expensive, MIT Finds

By Victor Tangermann

An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has launched this week in a bid to deny President Joe Biden from winning a second term in office.

Group Linked to Sam Altman Launches AI to Defeat Joe Biden

By Sharon Adarlo

The actor who voices Grand Theft Auto V's Michael De Santa called out a tech company for using his voice in an unauthorized AI chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence

Grand Theft Auto Voice Actor Furious at AI That Copied His Voice

By Sharon Adarlo

After removing mentions the "military and warfare" from its usage policies page, OpenAI has spoken out about working with the military.

OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon

By Victor Tangermann

One of OpenAI's earliest acolytes seems to think AI is a gift from on high — but what he's preaching sounds pretty fishy.

Former OpenAI Exec Predicts AI Could Be Last Thing Humans Ever Invent

By Noor Al-Sibai

Students at Ferris State University in Michigan will soon be sharing the classroom with AI-powered "students."

Artificial Intelligence

University Enrolling AI-Powered “Students” Who Will Turn in Assignments, Participate in Class Discussions

By Victor Tangermann

In his latest tech industry scorecard, famed roboticist Rodney Brooks soberly warns of an impending "AI winter."

Artificial Intelligence

Robotics Expert Says AI Hype Is Due for a Brutal Reality Check

By Frank Landymore

Just over half of AI researchers recently surveyed considered a five percent chance of humans being driven to extinction.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say This Is the Probability AI Will Drive Humans Extinct

By Victor Tangermann

Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.

Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

A study on basic income gave $750 per month to 103 homeless people in California for a year's duration, and the move had positive results.

Researchers Gave Homeless People $750 Per Month and the Results Were Incredible

By Sharon Adarlo

"Of course AI is a bubble," author Cory Doctorow wrote in a recent piece for Locus. "It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble."

Artificial Intelligence

Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI-driven chatbot called Ashley is being deployed to phone bank for a Pennsylvania Democrat politician.

Artificial Intelligence

Pennsylvania Politician Using Talking AI Chatbot to Call Thousands of Voters

By Sharon Adarlo