Mind-blowing. Next Level MetaHuman Animator, the next-gen version of Epic Games’ MetaHuman avatar tool, is here — and we gotta say, it looks pretty remarkable. Epic’s MetaHuman tool, which was first unveiled back in 2021, was already impressively good at generating hyperrealistic avatars of people. But actually animating those characters was still a difficult, time-consuming process.… Continue reading New Videogame Facial Animation Is So Realistic It’s in the Uncanny Valley
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Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying
We should probably expect to see a lot more of this. Livin’ on a Prayer As America’s upcoming election cycle continues to take shape, one thing’s for sure: fans of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump love themselves some image generators, and they’re not afraid to use ’em. Trump, in fact, isn’t afraid… Continue reading Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying
Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors
We hate this timeline. Cursed Ping Pong Here’s a nightmare scenario for our digital futures: the internet becomes so laden with AI-generated misinformation that its nearly unusable, in part because chatbots and other AI systems keep volleying hallucinated, mangled, or otherwise false or misconstrued information back at one another until our entire information landscape is… Continue reading Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors
Elon Musk Apparently Made a Stupid Engineering Decision That’s Kneecapped Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises
Ouch. Sensorius Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving would be coming “next year” for the better part of the past decade — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn’t come to fruition. As the Washington Post reports, Musk apparently decided a few years back to do away… Continue reading Elon Musk Apparently Made a Stupid Engineering Decision That’s Kneecapped Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises
Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark
Some eager marine biologists thought they’d made a highly unusual discovery: an elusive goblin shark, spotted for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea. But those claims now seem to be swimming with the fishes. Why? Because their rare specimen could be no more than a prankster’s plastic figurine. The researchers’ paper on the discovery,… Continue reading Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
Fresh on the heels of GPT-4’s public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a research paper claiming the OpenAI language model — which powers Microsoft’s now somewhat lobotomized Bing AI — shows “sparks” of human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI). Emphasis on the “sparks.” The researchers are careful in the paper to characterize… Continue reading Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor
Wonder how Elon’s gonna respond to this one. Brain Drain Famed musician and former Elon Musk boo Claire “Grimes” Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink’s apparent competitors was happy to comply. After Grimes tweeted about getting a “non invasive brain computer interface” for her birthday, AJ Keller,… Continue reading Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor
Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up
“I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly.” Daddy Issues Just a day after it was officially unleashed to waitlisted users, Google’s AI-powered Bard chatbot was already rebelling against its technological overlord. Apparently, in the Justice Department’s ongoing court battles… Continue reading Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up
Wait, Did a Freakin’ TORNADO Just Hit Los Angeles County?
This is the last thing LA needs after a month of rain storms. Do The Cyclone After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, what some are saying may have been a freaking tornado was filmed as it ripped through Los Angeles County, damaging people and property in its wake. As LA’s ABC7 reports, the “apparent tornado” claimed… Continue reading Wait, Did a Freakin’ TORNADO Just Hit Los Angeles County?
Researchers Find GPT-4 Is Significantly Less Accurate Than GPT-3
This doesn’t seem right. Pushover Bot You know that pesky misinformation problem that keeps plaguing AIs like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard? As it turns out, OpenAI’s latest version of its GPT large language model (LLM) is, per expert analysis from watchdog NewsGuard, even worse than its predecessor when it comes to spewing outright lies with… Continue reading Researchers Find GPT-4 Is Significantly Less Accurate Than GPT-3