“They missed it because they hadn’t expected to find anything like it.” Slow Jams Astronomers have long been observing pulsars, which are highly magnetized neutron stars that rotate and shoot out beacons of energy, much like a lighthouse. These repeating radio signals are detected back here on Earth as powerful and surprisingly regular blips — at… Continue reading Mysterious Space Object Has Been Pulsing Every 20 Minutes Since the 1980s
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Apple Is Secretly Building Its Rival to ChatGPT
“Apple GPT” is here, but only behind closed doors. Behold: Ajax Apple is secretly working on AI tools and an internally used AI chatbot, Bloomberg reports, which engineers in the company have nicknamed “Apple GPT.” The news could be the first serious sign that the tech monolith is finally entering the generative AI race, though… Continue reading Apple Is Secretly Building Its Rival to ChatGPT
Scientists Surprised by DNA in Worms That Control Hosts’ Brains
This bizarre organism is missing huge amounts of genes. Spaghetti Yeerk For years, researchers have known about a species of parasitic critters called hairworms that can “mind control” their host by hijacking their cognitive functions. Now, it turns out the spaghetti-like organisms that spend almost their entire lives inside other animals’ bodies have yet another… Continue reading Scientists Surprised by DNA in Worms That Control Hosts’ Brains
AI Developers Are Already Quietly Training AI Models Using AI-Generated Data
“Human-created data… is extremely expensive.” Self-Fulfilling While most AI models are built on data made by humans, some companies are starting to use — or are trying to figure out how to use — data that was itself generated by AI. If they can pull it off, it could be a huge boon, albeit one… Continue reading AI Developers Are Already Quietly Training AI Models Using AI-Generated Data
Bizarre Two-Faced Star Seems to Be Different on Each Side
“When I show the observations to people, they are blown away.” Janus-Faced In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers have spotted what appears to be a white dwarf star with two faces, meaning it has a different appearance on each hemisphere. According to a resulting study about the finding newly published in the journal Nature, one side… Continue reading Bizarre Two-Faced Star Seems to Be Different on Each Side
Brutal Heat Wave Is Literally Putting People Into Comas
Image by Getty / Futurism Brutal heat waves covering large swathes of world right now are forcing healthcare workers to come up with new ways to keep patients cool. Several areas have hit record temperatures, as sweltering conditions continue across North America and Europe. Death Valley in California recorded a “mind-boggling” 120 degrees Fahrenheit — at… Continue reading Brutal Heat Wave Is Literally Putting People Into Comas
Authorities Warn Residents to Stay Indoors as Lioness Escapes
“Around midnight we received a notification that we couldn’t believe.” Loose Lioness Residents of a small town southwest of Berlin, Germany are being told to stay indoors over reports of a “loose, dangerous animal” roaming the area — reportedly an escaped lioness. As The Guardian reports, a frantic search is underway, with helicopters, drones, and… Continue reading Authorities Warn Residents to Stay Indoors as Lioness Escapes
Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator
Google is secretly showing off an AI tool that can produce news stories to major newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. The tool, dubbed Genesis, can digest public information and generate news content, according to reporting by the New York Times, in yet another sign that AI-generated… Continue reading Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator
There’s Something Weird Going on With the Sun
Could the Sun be peaking early? Peaking Early Over the last couple of months, furious storms have rocked the Sun’s surface, sending out powerful solar flares and bursts of charged plasma that can even cause havoc here on Earth, almost 100 million miles away. To a certain degree that’s to be expected, as the Sun’s… Continue reading There’s Something Weird Going on With the Sun
Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider
“It’s important to know whether updates to the model…actually hurt its capability.” Dumb and Dumber Regardless of what its execs claim, researchers are now saying that yes, OpenAI’s GPT large language model (LLM) appeared to be getting dumber. In a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, researchers out of Stanford and Berkeley found that over a period of… Continue reading Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider