It could be the largest crater ever. Concealed History The landmass of Australia could be harboring a massive, subterranean secret. In a new essay for The Conversation, geologist Andrew Glikson explains his latest research that indicates that an epic asteroid crater could be buried underneath the continent — and all the evidence points to it… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Buried Under Australia
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OpenAI Deploys Crawler to Vacuum Up Your Posts and Train AI With Them
Time to block that sucker. Data Scraper OpenAI has launched a new web crawler called “GPTBot” that will trawl the internet for content to train its large language models like GPT-4, which power ChatGPT. “Allowing GPTBot to access your site can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety,” reads… Continue reading OpenAI Deploys Crawler to Vacuum Up Your Posts and Train AI With Them
Hackers Gain Control of Casino Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control Over Games
“Basically, it allows us to do more or less whatever we want.” Shifty Shufflers The house doesn’t always win. Researchers at the security firm IOActive say they’ve discovered that a card shuffling machine called the Deckmate, widely used by casinos and long thought to be impervious, is actually vulnerable to hacking, Wired reports — an exploit… Continue reading Hackers Gain Control of Casino Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control Over Games
Nick Cave Unloads on Musicians Using ChatGPT to Write Songs
“ChatGPT rejects any notions of creative struggle.” Oh No You Didn’t Known AI hater and famed singer-songwriter Nick Cave has once again gone off on OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its imitators being used to mimic the actual talent to write and record music. In a “letter to the editor”-style blog post, Cave took questions from two purported… Continue reading Nick Cave Unloads on Musicians Using ChatGPT to Write Songs
The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers
Why are we not surprised? Braindrive Fresh dispatch from the eternal search for the fountain of youth! As Fortune reports, a recent consumer report, conducted by the strategy group A/B Consulting and the VC firm Maveron, shows that 41 percent of America’s wealthiest would happily download their consciousness into a computer as a means to… Continue reading The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers
White House Pledges $1.2 Billion to Suck Carbon Out of the Air
Climate change can suck it. Direct Air Capture President Joe Biden’s administration will fund a massive carbon removal project to suck the greenhouse gas straight out of the atmosphere using what’s known as direct air capture — the first time the US has made a major investment in the controversial technology. White House senior advisor… Continue reading White House Pledges $1.2 Billion to Suck Carbon Out of the Air
AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble
As the AI industry’s market value continues to balloon, experts are warning that its meteoric rise is eerily similar to that of a different — and significant — moment in economic history: the dot com bubble of the late 1990s. The dot com bubble — and subsequent crash — was an era defined by a… Continue reading AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble
Man Puzzled When His Totaled Tesla Comes Back Online in Ukraine
Jumpscare! Crash Course While it’s customary to hear about Teslas crashing, burning, or exploding, hearing about one that seems to have come back from the dead is another thing entirely. In a now-viral Twitter post, CNBC executive editor Jay Yarow wrote of his puzzlement after his Model X, which he’d crashed and totaled in the US, blinked… Continue reading Man Puzzled When His Totaled Tesla Comes Back Online in Ukraine
AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests
CAPTCHAs are officially over. CAPTCHA Real Smooth Researchers have found that bots are shockingly good at completing CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which are those small, annoying puzzles designed — ironically — to verify that you’re really human. In fact, as the team led by Gene Tsudik at the… Continue reading AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests
Elon Says the Zuck Fight Is Back On, Gladiator-Style
Are you not entertained?! Et Tu, Brute? Are you not entertained? Fear not! It sounds like we might get to see X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg bash each other’s brains out after all. And if the former’s recent posts are anything to go by, it’ll be an epic, “Gladiator”-style affair. “Livestream… Continue reading Elon Says the Zuck Fight Is Back On, Gladiator-Style