Facebook’s Resident AI Guru Just Brutally Slammed ChatGPT

“It’s nothing revolutionary.” Not Impressed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s impressive new text generating system, has more than its share of fans — and apparently it’s got haters in high places, too. In an online discussion transcribed by ZDNet, Facebook-turned-Meta AI czar Yann LeCun — a titan in the field, widely hailed as of the “godfathers of AI”… Continue reading Facebook’s Resident AI Guru Just Brutally Slammed ChatGPT

World’s Third Richest Person Says He’s Developed “Addiction” to ChatGPT

To each their own. Jacked In Gautam Adani, the world’s third richest person, is apparently hooked on OpenAI’s ChatGPT. He said so himself, in a post-Davos blog post on LinkedIn. ChatGPT “was the buzzword at this year’s event,” Adani wrote in the post, caveating that he “must admit to some addiction since I started using it.”… Continue reading World’s Third Richest Person Says He’s Developed “Addiction” to ChatGPT

Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

Atlas is a walking workplace safety hazard. Work Hazard Last week, we watched as Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas deftly threw an entire bag of tools to a human construction worker who was standing on top of some scaffolding. While it was an impressive display of strength and agility, it now sounds like the video… Continue reading Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault

It’s solved! Episode Two In case you missed it, newly-minted Substack author Sam Bankman-Fried was back on the blogging grind last week. This time, he laid even further into his bankrupt exchange’s longtime lawyers, the New York City-based firm Sullivan & Cromwell — meanwhile, of course, once again insisting that he’s totally innocent and (the… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault

The Best Audio Mixers of 2023

Audio mixers are an essential piece of sound equipment that comprise the control center of every professional sound system, from live performance venues to recording studios. The best audio mixers excel at combining signals from a number of sources like microphones, keyboards, and guitars, and blending them into a cohesive mix that’s clear, balanced, and… Continue reading The Best Audio Mixers of 2023

Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

Did they just build Mousenstein’s Monster?! FrankenBot Scientists have created remote-controlled walking robots actuated by mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, a Frankensteinian mashup of state-of-the-art robotics and basic biological systems that could lay the groundwork for far more complex cyborg robots in the future. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Robotics,… Continue reading Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked

This is embarrassing. TSA Leak A cybersecurity hacktivist appears to have leaked the Transportation Security Administration’s No Fly List, a highly sensitive document, after discovering it on an unsecured server, the Daily Dot reports. Unsurprisingly, the TSA is now investigating how the data was exposed. It’s an egregious lapse in cybersecurity protocols that has already… Continue reading The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked

CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

The prominent tech news site CNET‘s attempt to pass off AI-written work keeps getting worse. First, the site was caught quietly publishing the machine learning-generated stories in the first place. Then the AI-generated content was found to be riddled with factual errors. Now, CNET‘s AI also appears to have been a serial plagiarist — of… Continue reading CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

Yet another AI-induced existential crisis. All Business Just in case anyone out there — even you, c-suite suits — had any remaining shred of hope that their job is truly safe from the robots, we’re here to let you know: ChatGPT, OpenAI’s groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam, according to… Continue reading Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

Marines also fooled it by doing somersaults and pretending to be a tree. Hiding in a Box The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) robots were apparently trained to identify human targets — but were easily fooled when soldiers hid in cardboard boxes, a hilarious workaround to billions of taxpayer dollars in AI robotics… Continue reading Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”