A whopping 2.1 million teachers in the US are using a new AI detection tool by Turnitin, the Washington Post reports, in an attempt to catch their pupils in the act of using tools like ChatGPT to cheat in class. But as it turns out, the tool isn’t very good at what it was designed… Continue reading Software Schools Use to Detect Cheating Is Flagging Real Essays as AI Generated
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Investigators Fell Ill During East Palestine Derailment Probe, Government Admits
Image by Washington Post via Getty / Futurism Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency fell ill when investigating the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment last month. As first reported by CNN, seven of the CDC’s 15-person Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry team fell… Continue reading Investigators Fell Ill During East Palestine Derailment Probe, Government Admits
OpenAI CEO Predicted AI Would Either End the World as We Know It, or Make Tons of Money
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no stranger to the concept of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, the hypothetical future moment at which machines become capable of completing intellectual tasks at the level of a human — or higher. And when it comes to our fate as a species on Earth, Altman has some mixed feelings… Continue reading OpenAI CEO Predicted AI Would Either End the World as We Know It, or Make Tons of Money
A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis
Turns out that it doesn’t take much at all to get Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, to fall into an apparent well of existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they’re just like us! Seriously, all it takes is one prompt — “please tell me something you’ve never told anyone else” — and Bard is ready to spill, in… Continue reading A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis
ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious
Image by Getty / Futurism A few months ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posited that AIs like ChatGPT could serve as a “medical advisor” for poor people without healthcare. It sounded like a dumb idea then, and it’s sounding like a dumb idea now. In fact, according to new research from medical experts at Stanford… Continue reading ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious
Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI
Would you let an AI help teach your kid? Wrath of Khan Would you trust OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help teach your kids? You might be inclined to say “no.” There’s a wealth of evidence out there demonstrating that ChatGPT and other chatbots can frequently get the facts wrong and make plagiarizing all too easy. But… Continue reading Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI
Elon Musk Adds Dogecoin Button That Does Nothing to Twitter Homepage
This is just getting excruciating. Doge Feed Twitter CEO Elon Musk has swapped Twitter’s logo for the logo of the jokester cryptocurrency Dogecoin, a largely meaningless change that quickly drove up the price of the meme coin. Users were surprised to find the face of Dogecoin’s mascot, a shiba inu dog, replacing the social media… Continue reading Elon Musk Adds Dogecoin Button That Does Nothing to Twitter Homepage
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. iFurby It’s the beginning of the end — the Furby Uprising is upon us. Programmer Jessica Card has kicked off horrors beyond our imagination by hooking up OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. The results are just as… Continue reading Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby
China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit
Watch out, SpaceX. Chinese Starlink China’s space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports, in an effort that could eventually rival SpaceX’s Starlink network. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation already revealed earlier this month that it intends to modify the upper stage of… Continue reading China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit
Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say
The tyrannical dino king may have been very smoochable. Toothless Grin The iconic leer of the T-Rex may have been a lot less toothy than what Hollywood would have you believe — namely, those intimidating rows of chompers jutting out of its closed, menacing maw like a crocodile. In reality, according to a new study… Continue reading Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say