You had one job! Ba(r)d Assistant Google’s new Bard extension will apparently summarize emails, plan your travels, and — oh, yeah — fabricate emails that you never actually sent. Last week, Google plugged its large language model-powered chatbot called Bard into a bevy of Google products including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, and… Continue reading Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist
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Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge
He drowned after crashing into a creek below. Mind the Gap The family of a tragically deceased North Carolina man is suing Google for negligence, claiming Google Maps told the father of two to drive his car off a collapsed bridge last year. Philip Paxson drowned after plowing his Jeep Gladiator off the bridge, plunging… Continue reading Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge
Pink Diamonds Emerged When a Supercontinent Broke Up, Scientists Say
They’re well over a billion years old. Diamond Eyes Pink diamonds are so incredibly rare that they can sell for many millions of dollars. Scientists believe the ultra-rare gems turn pink or red when tectonic plates collide with unusually strong forces, causing their crystal lattices to literally bend, as CNN reports. Now, researchers claim to… Continue reading Pink Diamonds Emerged When a Supercontinent Broke Up, Scientists Say
Parents Furious After Deepfaked Nudes of Daughters Circulate at Schools
“I saw a naked photo of you.” Dystopia Now “I saw a naked photo of you.” Those were the chilling words a boy told a 14-year-old girl after she arrived on the first day of school this year in Spain, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports. AI-generated, deepfake nudes of her and other female classmates were… Continue reading Parents Furious After Deepfaked Nudes of Daughters Circulate at Schools
AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing
Ironic. Dead Poets Society It’s an open secret that generative AI is terrible at coming up with original and creative writing. In many ways, that’s to be expected, given its inherent nature — machine learning systems typically churn through the internet and remix what they’ve gobbled up, often in nonsensical or uninspiring ways. To remedy the… Continue reading AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing
Study Finds 95 Percent of NFTs Are Now Worthless
NFTs are officially on life support. Practically Worthless NFTs are officially on life support. According to a recent report by crypto platform dappGambl called “Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market,” 95 percent of the tokens are practically worthless today. The company found that 69,795 of the 73,257 NFT collections analyzed now have… Continue reading Study Finds 95 Percent of NFTs Are Now Worthless
US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth
Image by Getty Images Sorry everyone, but the Space Drug Factory can’t come back to Earth just yet. As reported last week by TechCrunch, Varda Space — the 0ff-Earth drug manufacturer currently working to develop pharmaceuticals in a low-orbit space factory — has postponed its spacecraft’s atmosphere-reentry plans, saying that neither the US Air Force (USAF)… Continue reading US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth
Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying
“It’s a cluckin’ great leap for science!” Buck-Buck-Buck A team of researchers in Japan claims to have figured out a way to translate the clucking of chickens with the use of artificial intelligence. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed preprint, the team led by University of Tokyo professor Adrian David Cheok — who has previously studied… Continue reading Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying
Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”
Once again, Google’s search engines are failing to block fake, AI-generated imagery from its top search results. Google’s inability to protect its top search results from fake, AI-generated imagery continues. It’s been 30 years since China’s infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre, and the “Tank Man” photograph, a striking image of a protestor standing in front of… Continue reading Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”
Tesla Maniac Sentenced to Prison
“I just feel like he is going to get out and be infuriated…” Fury Road A particularly aggressive Tesla driver, who was involved in a spectacular ten road rage incidents last year — or at least, that’s how many we know about — has been sentenced to five years in prison, ABC 7 reports. The man, who… Continue reading Tesla Maniac Sentenced to Prison