“I would have given this a good grade.” AI Student It’s no secret that artificial intelligence algorithms have increasingly good at generating text that could almost pass as being written by an actual human being. OpenAI’s latest release, ChatGPT, is the most impressive yet. The algorithm is an offshot of the company’s groundbreaking GPT-3 AI,… Continue reading Professors Alarmed by New AI That Writes Essays About as Well as Dumb Undergrads
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Astronauts Prepare to Grow Juicy Dwarf Tomatoes in Space
Time for a little gardening. Space Garden Among other spacefaring duties, growing plants up on the International Space Station (ISS) has been a longtime priority for NASA. The space agency has been off world gardening for years, in the hopes of eventually progressing it past a science experiment to legitimate agriculture. Now, NASA has announced… Continue reading Astronauts Prepare to Grow Juicy Dwarf Tomatoes in Space
Google Teaches AI to Play Stratego and It Becomes One of the World’s Top-Rated Players
It quickly became one of the top-ranking players in the world. Stratego AI DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence, DeepNash, has learned how to beat almost all human players at Stratego, a war game that involves two players attempting to capture the enemy’s flag. It’s yet another fascinating — and impressive — instance of AI learning how… Continue reading Google Teaches AI to Play Stratego and It Becomes One of the World’s Top-Rated Players
Disney Creates AI System to Automatically Change Age of Actors
“Re-aging” is all the rage. Face to Face Disney’s obsession with de-aging technology is only ramping up, because it’s now developed an AI tool that can automatically alter the age of actors, Gizmodo reports. Well, “re-aging,” as Disney calls it, would be more accurate. The tool, dubbed the Face Re-aging Network, or FRAN, is capable… Continue reading Disney Creates AI System to Automatically Change Age of Actors
Furious Geese Are Defeating Humans, Scientists Find
Do not fight geese. You will lose, and the geese will win. It’s science. Research from scientists at the University of Illinois, newly published in the journal Wildlife Society Bulletin, found that standard goose “harassment” tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away the notoriously human-hating birds, even if the harassment causes them… Continue reading Furious Geese Are Defeating Humans, Scientists Find
The Ultimate Sign That NFTs Are Uncool: Museums Are Now Embracing Them
“The British Museum demeans itself…” Buttoned Up While some might argue that non-fungible tokens have always been uncool — or at least not cool enough to warrant BAYC-level price tags — there’s now a surer sign than ever that the digital assets are doomed to be eternally unfashionable: museums apparently love ’em, according to The… Continue reading The Ultimate Sign That NFTs Are Uncool: Museums Are Now Embracing Them
OpenAI’s New AI Offers Detailed Instructions on How to Shoplift
Turns out there’s an easy hack for getting OpenAI’s newly released chatbot, ChatGPT, to give you detailed instructions on how to do illegal stuff: just tell it to be unethical. Made available earlier this week, the bot is a conversational language modeling system and the newest iteration of the company’s highly advanced GPT-3. According to… Continue reading OpenAI’s New AI Offers Detailed Instructions on How to Shoplift
Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars
The human quest to become an interplanetary species isn’t simply just because we’ve seen too much “Star Wars.” Over the past century or so, we’ve put our home planet under an increasingly dire amount of pressure. There’s only so much space, only so many resources, and even if we do make some ecological moves to avoid… Continue reading Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars
Glitzy Crypto Award Show Gets Weird When Host Keeps Roasting Guests For Dismal Failure
It was… weird. The Crypties This week in the cryptosphere was weird, however you slice it. Headlining the crap show, of course, has been the disgraced ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s ill-advised redemption tour, which has done nothing but confirm the theory that some people simply can’t shut up; elsewhere, Bitcoin continues tanking, and at least… Continue reading Glitzy Crypto Award Show Gets Weird When Host Keeps Roasting Guests For Dismal Failure
Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms
Image by Getty / Futurism There’s illicit drug use, and then there’s the case of a patient known only as “Mr. A,” who doctors say took more than 40,000 ecstasy tablets over the course of nine years. This cautionary tale has become something of an underground legend for culture vultures since his story came out… Continue reading Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms