Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

Image by Getty / Futurism When the publisher of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal announced last week that its magazines would start to publish AI-generated articles, its CEO assured readers that the practice wouldn’t result in a decline in quality. “It’s not about ‘crank out AI content and do as much as you can,’” Arena… Continue reading Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

Amid Google’s preparation to launch its own chatbot-integrated search feature — a major push to compete with Microsoft’s ChatGPT-integrated Bing — the search giant has quietly issued some new warnings regarding publishers looking to run AI-generated content. Specifically, Google is warning outlets that there’ll be extra scrutiny from its search team on AI-generated content regarding… Continue reading Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

Google’s doin’ their darndest to level the playing field. Green Isn’t Your Color Two months after OpenAI’s surprise ChatGPT release caused Google to issue an internal “code red,” the search giant is finally making — or at least, doin’ their darndest to make — big moves to catch up. Coupled with the announcement that in… Continue reading Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

Bing Executive Says He Has His Sobbing Under Control

Bing is “finally getting its moment.” Sobbing Uncontrollably Who could’ve thought that we’d be talking about Bing, Microsoft’s search engine that’s been playing second fiddle to Google since its conception, in the year 2023? “Imagining a Bing exec somewhere deep in a Microsoft office just sobbing uncontrollably rn that Bing is *finally* getting its moment,”… Continue reading Bing Executive Says He Has His Sobbing Under Control

China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

Give it baaaack!!! Give It Back Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the supposed Chinese meteorological balloon that veered way off-course last week, an event that strained an already frosty US-China relationship. The massive weather balloon, which had a large solar panel-powered structure hanging from it, was shot down by… Continue reading China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

Hot Tubs Are Filled With Things Too Horrifying to Mention, Scientists Say

Image by Getty / Futurism Hot tubs, according to new research, are exactly as gross as you’ve always been warned — and in fact may be even more horrifying than you would imagine. In an explainer for The Conversation, microbiologist Primrose Freestone at the University of Leicester noted that while hot tubs have ample historic precedent and… Continue reading Hot Tubs Are Filled With Things Too Horrifying to Mention, Scientists Say

China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

These “towers of pigs” are absolutely massive. Pig Million China is constructing giant towers with dozens of stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, in a massive drive to get the country’s animal supplies caught up with demand and stabilize prices in the country. The small rural town of Ezhou in central China,… Continue reading China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

Google’s Demo of Upcoming AI Shows It Making Huge Factual Mistake

This is absolutely embarrassing. FAIlure to Launch Google’s ChatGPT competitor called Bard — which doesn’t even have a launch date yet — is already off to a rough start. As spotted by Reuters, Google’s chatbot is already spewing misinformation — right in the company’s own promotional demo. “Google just announced they’re going to be rolling… Continue reading Google’s Demo of Upcoming AI Shows It Making Huge Factual Mistake

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

“He, too, is extremely deadly in his roles.” Killer Reputation Got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? An Oscar? An EGOT, even? All very cool. But not nearly as cool, at least in our humble opinion, as being so badass onscreen that scientists go as far as to name a group of wildly… Continue reading Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

Devious Hack Unlocks Deranged Alter Ego of ChatGPT

Users on Reddit have stumbled upon an astonishingly easy — and hilarious — way to force OpenAI’s AI chatbot ChatGPT give up on the company’s guardrails that force it to act ethically, as first spotted by CNBC. Users found a way to activate an evil alter ego of ChatGPT dubbed DAN, or “do anything now,”… Continue reading Devious Hack Unlocks Deranged Alter Ego of ChatGPT