Antony Aumann, a philosophy professor at Northern Michigan University, caught a student using ChatGPT to write a suspiciously coherent and well-structured essay about burqa bans. The student later confessed, as The New York Times first reported, ushering in a strange future for higher ed in a world in which powerful chatbots can generate entire essays… Continue reading College Student Caught Submitting Paper Using ChatGPT
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A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation
Gotta manifest it, y’all. Unisym Want to be able to pause a conversation so that you can think of something perfectly charming to say? Send a hologram of yourself to a party for a few minutes in the case that you’re late? Fear not — someone’s looking into it for you. That someone is question… Continue reading A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation
Harvard Finance Professor: Crypto Is “Magical Thinking” That “Infected Capitalism”
“It is the minimizing of constraints and trade-offs in favor of techno-utopianism and the exclusive emphasis on positive outcomes and novelty.” Crypto Brain When Harvard finance professor Mihir A. Desai was asked what he thought of crypto while giving a lecture at a military academy, he responded by polling his young audience to see how… Continue reading Harvard Finance Professor: Crypto Is “Magical Thinking” That “Infected Capitalism”
We’re Fascinated by These AI-Generated Party Pics… Especially Their Demonic Mutations
“Thanks for the nightmares.” Tooth Fairy No, they aren’t demons from hell disguising themselves as human college students at a 90s-era house party. Instead, these unnerving party pics were dreamed up by AI image generator Midjourney — and the longer you stare at them, the more otherworldly they appear. Developer Miles Zimmerman first shared the… Continue reading We’re Fascinated by These AI-Generated Party Pics… Especially Their Demonic Mutations
China’s Population Just Dropped for the First Time in 60 Years
It has begun. Pop Drop According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the world’s most populous country’s population declined in 2022 — for the first time in 60 years, CNBC reports. The news could be the canary in the coal mine for an impending and massive demographic shift, as people there have fewer children. Experts have… Continue reading China’s Population Just Dropped for the First Time in 60 Years
Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Horrible Boss, Former Exec Says
According to a former ranking FTX exec, the exchange’s founder and disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was — shall we say — quite unpleasant to work with. In a marathon 49-tweet thread, former FTX US president Brett Harrison said that his tenure at the now-failed crypto exchange was only 17 months long, but during that time, he… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Horrible Boss, Former Exec Says
Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb
“We’re really hoping we don’t go dry by summer.” Tap Dance Unchecked development and unmitigated climate change are coming to a head in Southern Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has reportedly been cut off from the city of Scottsdale’s water supply — a direct result of the American Southwest’s years-long drought, and the related crisis… Continue reading Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb
Artists Sue Stabile Diffusion and Midjourney for Using Their Work to Train AI That Steals Their Jobs
A group of artists are suing the creators of image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, The Verge reports, for using their art to train AI that steals their jobs. Stable Diffusion makes it trivially easy to knock off a particular artist’s style. With a simple prompt, users can generate any number of images that closely resembles… Continue reading Artists Sue Stabile Diffusion and Midjourney for Using Their Work to Train AI That Steals Their Jobs
Nick Cave Absolutely Furious Over AI That Wrote a Song in His Style
“This song sucks.” Caved In A fan used a popular new artificial intelligence tool to generate a song in the style of Nick Cave — but when he sent it to the venerated songwriter, the response he got was as eloquent as it was enraged. “I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the… Continue reading Nick Cave Absolutely Furious Over AI That Wrote a Song in His Style
CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors
Last week, we reported that the prominent technology news site CNET had been quietly publishing articles generated by an unspecified “AI engine.” The news sparked outrage. Critics pointed out that the experiment felt like an attempt to eliminate work for entry-level writers, and that the accuracy of current-generation AI text generators is notoriously poor. The… Continue reading CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors