Officials are finally ready to talk. Wake Up Ever since going into hibernation in May 2022 to wait out a bitterly cold winter, China’s Mars rover Zhurong has remained in its deep slumber. That’s despite expectations of having it wake up and resume its exploration of the Martian surface in December, leading to questions about… Continue reading China Addresses Awkward Situation on Mars
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Scientists Detect Gooey Core Inside Mars
Like a giant candy. Martian Mood After inspecting NASA’s Mars lander data, scientists say they’ve figured out what lies at the heart of the Red Planet’s core. In a press release about the revolutionary findings out of the University of Maryland, the geologists who made this landmark discovery say that Mars’ core is made up… Continue reading Scientists Detect Gooey Core Inside Mars
Private Company Landing on Moon Appears to Have Failed
“We have to assume we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface.” Lost Comms Getting into space is hard — but landing on the Moon is even harder. Japanese lunar lander Hakuto-R Mission 1, developed by private space company ispace, attempted to touch down on the surface of the Moon today. But the… Continue reading Private Company Landing on Moon Appears to Have Failed
China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines
“Generative artificial intelligence put into tension two of the top goals of the party.” Impossible Bar With or without guardrails in place, AI-powered chatbots — like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard — are notoriously unpredictable. Even so, the New York Times is reporting that any chatbots operating within China’s digital borders must comply with the… Continue reading China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines
Footage Shows Three Ford F-150 Electric Trucks Burning
“We’re not putting this f***er out. Look at it.” Catching Fire Ford was hoping its F-150 Lightning would be the next hot commodity in electric pickup trucks — but probably not like this. New footage obtained by CNBC through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) shows a close-up look at the February fire that burned… Continue reading Footage Shows Three Ford F-150 Electric Trucks Burning
Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song
“I’ll split 50 percent royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses my voice.” Sharing Royalties While some music artists and their labels are increasingly becoming wary of those using AI models to clone their voices, others are choosing to ride the wave and embrace an AI-filled future. Experimental artist and futurist Claire “Grimes” Boucher,… Continue reading Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song
ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship
This ChatGPT hack is pretty clever. Breaking the Mould A University of Victoria academic used ChatGPT in a fascinating way to write a recommendation letter for a student, The Atlantic reports — and it worked so well that it helped the student win a prestigious Cambridge scholarship. “A dirty secret of academe is that most… Continue reading ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship
Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity
“This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared.” Relieved of Duties Here’s a pro tip for editors: do not, under any circumstance, publish an artificial intelligence-generated “interview” with someone you didn’t actually interview, especially if they have suffered a life-altering injury. Anne Hoffmann, the longtime editor of the German-language tabloid Die Aktuelle, is learning… Continue reading Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity
Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers
This is getting ridiculous. Beyond the Grave After yoinking legacy verification blue checkmarks from Twitter accounts last week, CEO Elon Musk is now adding Twitter Blue checkmarks to the accounts of celebrities without their consent — including some who passed away years ago. The fiasco began when Musk promised to purge the legacy ticks on… Continue reading Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers
Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut
OpenAI doesn’t want any of its ChatGPT users to generate sexually explicit content. Unfortunately for them, that’s not stopping people online from generating extremely graphic sexual text with the viral chatbot. According to its usage policies, OpenAI forbids the generation of “adult content, adult industries, and dating apps,” including content “meant to arouse sexual excitement, such as… Continue reading Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut