It happened again! Tanker Trap Officials are ordering Tucson-area residents to shelter in place following a truck crash that resulted in the spillage of toxic chemicals on one of its highways. In a press release, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said that people who live within three miles of the tanker crash that killed its… Continue reading Residents Forced to Shelter in Place After Truck Spills Toxic Cargo
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Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It
Microsoft’s new Bing Chat AI is really starting to spin out of control. In yet another example, now it appears to be literally threatening users — another early warning sign that the system, which hasn’t even been released to the wider public yet, is far more of a loose cannon than the company is letting… Continue reading Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It
The CEO of OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is a “Horrible Product”
“No one would say this was a great, well-integrated product yet.” Downtime and Misinformation OpenAI’s blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT is really great at coming up with creative and believable-sounding answers to pretty much any prompt you can come up with. But it’s also extremely good at coming up with outright lies and misinformation, making its… Continue reading The CEO of OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is a “Horrible Product”
Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets
“Please stay tuned while we make adjustments to the uh .… ‘algorithm.’” Musk Bombed If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren’t alone. Just days after news emerged that the Twitter CEO had fired an engineer in a fit… Continue reading Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets
Air Force Missed UFO With $400,000 Missile, Had to Use Another One
“The second shot hit.” Hard to Miss It wasn’t exactly a difficult shot. An F-16 fighter jet was dispatched by the US Air Force over Lake Huron on Sunday to shoot down a mysterious object identified in North American airspace. As US officials admitted this week, the first Sidewinder missile fired by the jet somehow… Continue reading Air Force Missed UFO With $400,000 Missile, Had to Use Another One
Someone Deepfaked Joe Rogan to Sell a Male Enhancement Product
Not even Joe Rogan deserves this treatment. Joe Schmoe An advertisement featuring a deepfaked Joe Rogan is being used to promote a scientifically dubious brand of male enhancement product on TikTok, a worrying use of the technology that looks and sounds far too convincing for our liking. Initially uncovered by TikTok ad strategist Jimmy Farley,… Continue reading Someone Deepfaked Joe Rogan to Sell a Male Enhancement Product
BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes Seem Kind of Broken, Honestly
When BuzzFeed announced last month that it would be integrating OpenAI’s text generating technology into its iconic quizzes, we were intrigued. Not all BuzzFeed writers were thrilled with the experiment, but its premise seemed to sidestep the worst ills of publications like CNET and Men’s Journal, which have used AI to crank out content that later turned… Continue reading BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes Seem Kind of Broken, Honestly
Google Chairman Admits It’s Pushing AI to Market Before It’s “Really Ready”
Oh well! Oopsie Daisy Google may have just shown its hand in the artificial intelligence arms race after one of its head honchos admitted that the company rushed its rollout. During a talk at the TechSurge nerd conference, John Hennessy — the chairman of Google parent company Alphabet — let slip a very interesting tidbit… Continue reading Google Chairman Admits It’s Pushing AI to Market Before It’s “Really Ready”
Asking Bing’s AI Whether It’s Sentient Apparently Causes It to Totally Freak Out
Microsoft is now allowing some users to take its new AI-powered Bing for a spin — but as evidenced in screenshots posted to the Bing subreddit, the AI is already spiraling out of control. As one Redditor posted, asking the chatbot whether it believes it’s sentient appears to prompt some seriously strange and provocative malfunctions.… Continue reading Asking Bing’s AI Whether It’s Sentient Apparently Causes It to Totally Freak Out
Keanu Reeves Worried AI Could Soon Replace the Journalists Who Interview Him
Keanu Reeves made a career out of portraying cyberpunk action heroes rebelling against dystopian overlords who happen to be sentient machines — among other iconic roles — so who better to ask about this brave new world of AI we’re entering? Actually, it was Reeves who broached the topic first, in an interview with Wired… Continue reading Keanu Reeves Worried AI Could Soon Replace the Journalists Who Interview Him